Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition Marking the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation Opens Oct. 28
Wed., Oct. 11, 2017
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation with an exhibition that explores the power of the written word as a mechanism for radical change.
Video
The Rarest of Aquamarines: Tiffany Favrile glass
Mon., Oct. 9, 2017
Part of the exhibition "Tiffany Favrile Glass: Masterworks from the Collection of Stanley and Dolores Sirott, this Tiffany Aquamarine vase, inspired by a trip to Bermuda, features an underwater scene encased in green-tinted glass.
Library
A Using Book
Mon., Oct. 9, 2017 | Leah Klement
All medieval manuscripts are valuable. But some sell for much more than others, with prices reaching well into the tens of millions. Beauty is one common reason a text might fetch a higher price.
Art
Tiffany: Inspired by Nature
Thu., Oct. 5, 2017 | Chad Alligood
If you poke around in your cabinets at home, you'll probably find some glass vases tucked away inside. You might even take them out sometimes to hold flowers picked up on a sunny, farmer's market morning.
Art
Inside Secrets
Mon., Oct. 2, 2017 | Julia Cury
I'm a junior at Princeton University studying art history, with minors in European cultural studies and humanistic studies. I spent the summer as an intern in The Huntington's American art collections to gain a deeper understanding of how an art museum functions.
Welcome to the Ranch
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Usha Lee McFarling
The Huntington's experimental demonstration garden educates and enchantsIf ever there were a secret garden, it's the Ranch Garden at The Huntington...
Lessons Learned: In the Woods With a Canoe
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Terence Young
A historian of camping scrutinizes Frederick Jackson Turner's Encounter with WildernessBy Terence YoungCamping is one of the country's most popular pastimes...
Floriform
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | James Glisson
Don't expect a garden variety flower from a modernist painterA rose is a rose is a rose, but what a rose can mean in different contexts is staggeringly varied. Take the red rose. A token of romantic affection, it is also the flower of the City of Pasadena and its...
Scholar's Insight: A Riveting Hypothesis
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Racha Kirakosian
The recess in a book's cover may have contained more than meets the eye By Racha KirakosianOne of the most pleasurable experiences one can have as a medievalist...
Beyond The H
Our Own Dawson City
Thu., Sept. 28, 2017 | Anita Weaver
When creative filmmakers set their sights on illuminating neglected corners of history, magic can happen. Such is the case with Bill Morrison's riveting new documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, which weaves a story about the interconnections between Hollywood and the Klondike
Library
Contested Visions of the Southern California Desert
Mon., Sept. 25, 2017 | Keith Woodhouse
Just a couple of hours east of Los Angeles is a vast expanse that few Californians know by name: the California Desert Conservation Area, which contains roughly 25 million acres—or one-quarter of the state's land mass.
Lecture
Isherwood, Auden, and Spender Before the Second World War
Mon., Sept. 25, 2017
Author and sculptor Matthew Spender talks about the friendship between his father, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, from the late 1920s until Auden and Isherwood emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s.