Library
For They Are Excellent Fellows
Thu., Sept. 21, 2017 | Steve Hindle
This is one of the most exhilarating times at The Huntington—when the new cadre of research fellows arrive on our beautiful campus to explore our collections and take part in the intellectual life of this institution.
News
Sandra L. Brooke, Princeton Librarian, Appointed Avery Director of the Library at The Huntington
Wed., Sept. 20, 2017
Sandra Ludig Brooke, Librarian of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, has been named the Avery Director of the Library at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, The Huntington's Interim President, Steve Hindle, announced today.
Exhibitions
A Stunning and Sacred Cape
Mon., Sept. 18, 2017 | Daniela Bleichmar
In this edited excerpt from the introduction to the exhibition catalog, Visual Voyages (Yale University Press, 2017), Daniela Bleichmar, associate professor of art history and history at the University of Southern California and co-curator of the exhibition, focuses on a 17th-century feathered cape created by the Tupinambá people of Brazil.
Conference
Early Modern Collections in Use
Fri., Sept. 15, 2017
Early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge, but they are usually studied in terms of the objects they contained or how they came to exist. This conference instead explores how they were actually used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Conferences
Early Modern Collections in Use
Thu., Sept. 14, 2017 | Anne Goldgar
In the first half of the 18th century, Hans Sloane (1660–1753)—the collector, physician, and president of the Royal Society—was the acknowledged center of a web of international relationships that brought objects, letters, and visitors into his house
Art
Artists in the Library
Mon., Sept. 11, 2017 | Catherine G. Wagley and Emily Lacy
A photograph of the actress, director, and producer Olga Nethersole (1867–1951) shows her descending from a pedestal on which she had been posing as a statue. Men crouch and kneel beneath her.
Beyond The H
Making History Personal
Wed., Sept. 6, 2017 | Lisa Blackburn
It's one thing to read about history in a school textbook. It's quite another thing to engage with it first-hand: to make personal connections with history and, by doing so, to gain perspectives on the past.
Lecture
Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
Tue., Sept. 5, 2017
Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of the private MacLean Collection in Chicago, discusses the similarities and differences in representations of space, both real and imagined, in early modern maps created in China, Korea, and Japan.
Library
Sue Hodson’s Legacy
Thu., Aug. 31, 2017 | Natalie Russell
If you were to ask Sue Hodson, who is retiring today, about her favorite Huntington memories, she might tell you about the repartee that was exchanged by the panel of political cartoonists convened in conjunction with her Paul Conrad exhibition.
News
News Release - Harvest Moon Celebration to be Held Oct. 3
Thu., Aug. 31, 2017
Guests can experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of a traditional Chinese festival on Tuesday, Oct. 3, during the annual Harvest Moon Celebration at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Library
Enchanting Miniature Books
Wed., Aug. 23, 2017 | Laura Forsberg
Miniature books are among the hidden treasures at The Huntington. Henry E. Huntington did not set out to collect miniature books, but he received them as part of other large collections he purchased en bloc.
Exhibitions
News Release - Major Huntington Exhibition “Visual Voyages” and Array of Related Programing Set to Begin Sept. 16
Wed., Aug. 23, 2017
A sweeping international loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens opens on Sept. 16, 2017 to explore how the depiction of Latin American nature contributed to art and science from the late 1400s to the mid-1800s.