Exhibitions
Chinese American Advocate, Y.C. Hong
Tue., Dec. 15, 2015 | Linda Chiavaroli
For a period of decades spanning the late 19th century to well into the 20th century, Chinese immigrants faced huge obstacles entering the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The law, in effect from 1882 to 1943, was the first instituted to stop a particular ethnic group from...
Art
Alex Israel in the House
Thu., Dec. 10, 2015 | Catherine Hess
"What," you might ask, "is the work of contemporary artist Alex Israel doing in the Huntington Art Gallery, infiltrating the grand interiors of Henry and Arabella Huntington's former residence and supplanting beloved 18th-century artwork?"
Art
Portraiture as Interaction
Mon., Dec. 7, 2015 | Martina Droth and Mark Hallett
Portraiture implies an interaction between the sitter and spectator. It often rehearses an interaction between two or more protagonists and regularly focuses on the interaction between the people represented and their surroundings.
Library
LOOK>> A Printed Fan
Thu., Dec. 3, 2015 | Diana W. Thompson and Kate Lain
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. In this piece, we look at an 18th-century printed fan.
Lectures
The Map That Changed the World
Mon., Nov. 30, 2015 | Kirsten Siebach
In 1815, a surveyor named William Smith published a huge, 10-by-16-foot map of England, Wales, and part of Scotland titled A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales. Up until then, explorers had sketched fairly accurate maps
Art
Holiday Traffic
Tue., Nov. 24, 2015 | James Glisson
As you sit around the table this Thanksgiving, conversing with relatives or suffering through a carb coma, you may think about the mayhem of bargains, lines, and bad behavior that is to come on Black Friday.
Audio
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015 | Diana W. Thompson
Did you hear that The Huntington possesses an illuminated prayer book that fell from the hands of Mary Queen of Scots when she was beheaded in 1587? Or that the findings of German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt laid the groundwork for John Muir’s ideas of preservation
Lectures
Remembering Loren Miller
Mon., Nov. 16, 2015 | Alice Tsay
Loren Miller (1903-1967) was a Los Angeles-based attorney and civil rights activist who drafted most of the briefs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), which ended legal segregation in public schools.
Library
Unforgettable World War I Posters
Thu., Nov. 12, 2015 | David H. Mihaly
For people today, the mention of World War I posters may conjure up charged images promoting patriotic messages: think Uncle Sam pointing forcefully in I Want You for the U.S. Army or a coquette in sailor's uniform
Botanical
LOOK>> An Ant Plant
Mon., Nov. 9, 2015 | Dylan Hannon and Kate Lain
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. For this installment, we look at a Hydnophytum specimen, one of the ant plants in our tropical collections.
Conferences
Isherwood in California
Thu., Nov. 5, 2015 | James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
The conference "'My Self in a Transitional State': Isherwood in California" takes place at The Huntington on November 13 and 14 in Rothenberg Hall. We asked the conference conveners—James J. Berg
News
Press Release - Contemporary Art by Alex Israel to Be Installed in Historic Huntington Art Gallery, in Site-Specific Intervention
Thu., Nov. 5, 2015
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will stage an intervention in its historic Huntington Art Gallery of works by Alex Israel, one of the most recognizable emerging artists on the contemporary art stage.