Watch, Read, Listen

Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. begin their residencies at The Huntington by bringing distinct approaches to making new work inspired by the institution's library, art, and garden collections. Whether instinctive or methodical, intellectual or personal, both artists find ways to enter The Huntington and connect with larger historical narratives.

Can a piece of sculpture and a print on paper have the same effect? The differences between them seem clear.

We have invited Natalie Russell, assistant curator of literary collections at The Huntington, to share with us her take on Lewis Carroll and items in our collections related to him and his work.

In The Huntington's collections, there is a late 15th-century manuscript whose title in the Library catalog is "Astrological and Medical Compilation." Many medieval manuscripts are "compiled" in the sense that they frequently collect heterogeneous materials...

An exhibition focused on the surprising diversity of styles and subject matter found in the graphic art made by Henry Moore (1898-1986), the most prominent British sculptor of the 20th-century, will go on view at The Huntington

A recent tour of Puya in the Desert Garden with The Huntington's curator of the desert collections, John Trager, turned me from a Puya Ignoramus to a Puya Enthusiast.

Alexandra Walsham, professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge, explores how the English Reformation was remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between 1530 and 1700 and discusses the enduring legacies that these processes have left in more recent cultural memory.

The Trustees of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens are delighted and proud to name Professor Laura E. Skandera Trombley, Huntington Library President Emerita, as the recipient of The Dixon Wecter Distinguished Professor of American Literature Award.

Maria Drout, Hubble, Carnegie-Dunlap Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, discusses how a recent discovery of a "kilonova" associated with the cataclysmic merger of two neutron stars has filled in one of the final pieces of the elemental puzzle: the origin of many of the heaviest elements in the

Author Susan Whitfield (Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road) is joined by renowned theater director Peter Sellars for a fascinating conversation about the diversity of peoples and cultures that traveled the ancient trade routes of Afro-Eurasia.

Deborah Friedman documented the California Sycamore as part of her botanical illustration studies with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Best-selling author Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman; The Men Who United the States) explores the origins of "precision" and the invisible role it plays, for good or for ill, in the way we live our lives.