Art
A Designing Pre-Raphaelite
Wed., Feb. 21, 2018 | Catherine Hess
Before I saw The Nativity by Edward Burne-Jones, I asked myself if The Huntington really needed another design for a piece of 19th-century decorative art? We already had more than 1,000 drawings for wallpapers, carpets
Lecture
The Introduction of Japanese Plants into North America
Tue., Feb. 20, 2018
Through the pioneering work of collectors and nurserymen, many new Japanese species were introduced to the American gardening public in the late 19th century.
News
News Release - Joel A. Klein Named First Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at The Huntington
Tue., Feb. 20, 2018
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has named Joel A. Klein as the inaugural Molina Curator of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Klein, a historian of early-modern science and medicine on fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, joined the staff on Feb. 1.
Lecture
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
Thu., Feb. 15, 2018
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, puts contemporary conflicts from Afghanistan to Syria into historical perspective and asks why it matters whether we call them "civil wars" instead of insurgencies, rebellions, or even revolutions.
Botanical
Coming Home
Thu., Feb. 15, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
Before Phillip E. Bloom applied to become The Huntington's Curator of the Chinese Garden, he spent two days exploring and contemplating Liu Fang Yuan, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance—first alone and later with his wife, Yurika Wakamatsu, who had just taken a position as an assistant professor in the Department...
News
News Release - Premier Collection of Antique Valentines Comes to The Huntington
Mon., Feb. 12, 2018
A spectacular trove of thousands of valentines and related material—some dating as far back as the late 17th century—has been given to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, the institution announced today.
Exhibitions
News Release - Traveling Exhibition Spotlights One of the Planet's Most Important Resources: Trees
Thu., Feb. 8, 2018
One of the planet's most important and beautiful resources—its trees—will be spotlighted in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical artworks, on view May 19–Aug. 27, 2018, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Library
Ancestor in a Japanese Guest Book
Wed., Feb. 7, 2018 | Kevin Durkin
When Akira Chiba, the consul general of Japan in Los Angeles, came to visit The Huntington, he had an opportunity to look at one of the Library's recent acquisitions—a guest book that contains the signature of one of his illustrious forebears.
Lecture
Miraculous Things: The Culture of Consumerism in the Renaissance
Wed., Feb. 7, 2018
Martha Howell, professor of history at Columbia University and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, discusses the meaning attached to goods—both humble and luxurious—during the Renaissance. The era is considered by many to be the first age of commercial globalism.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Unique Darwin Photo Album
Tue., Feb. 6, 2018
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a unique photograph album, containing 19 prints, that offers a tantalizing glimpse into the intimate family circle of renowned scientist Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Lecture
Louis C. Tiffany's Glass Mosaics
Thu., Feb. 1, 2018
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Louis Comfort Tiffany directed an artistic empire in the design and creation of stained glass windows and lamps, blown glass vases, and other objects of luxury.
Art
An 18th-Century Star in Stripes
Wed., Jan. 31, 2018 | Melinda McCurdy
What do a zebra and a musical genius have in common? In the case of George Stubbs’ painting Zebra and Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait of his friend, the composer and musician Karl Friedrich Abel, there is, surprisingly, more than one connection.