News Bytes
Tapping a New Mine of Research
Tue., Oct. 29, 2013 | Matt Stevens
Sutter's Mill. Forty-niners panning for gold. Lottery of the Golden Ingot? If you thought you knew everything about the California Gold Rush, think again.
Art
How Do You Frame a Masterpiece?
Thu., Oct. 24, 2013 | Catherine Hess
In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. Its celebrity rests on many factors, not least of which is the superb quality of the painting
Art
VIDERE | Frame [video]
Fri., Oct. 18, 2013 | Kate Lain
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.
Beyond The H
Just What Bugs Us
Thu., Oct. 17, 2013 | James Folsom
In times past, nature delivered challenges in an orderly manner. Every few years we'd hear about a remarkable new pest or disease that threatened whole populations of plants throughout Southern California.
Botanical
Orchid Masquerade
Mon., Oct. 14, 2013 | Matt Stevens
This weekend The Huntington hosts the annual Southland Orchid Show in the Botanical Center's Banta Hall. Billed this year as "Orchid Masquerade," the show promises to present exotic blooms
Art
Monumental and Melodious
Fri., Oct. 11, 2013 | Susan Turner-Lowe
You may recall a curious story about lost-and-found art that ran in The New York Times last year—a news piece that explained how a long overlooked monumental sculpture of celebrated artist Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) emerged from decades
Beyond The H
In Praise of Penwork
Thu., Oct. 10, 2013 | Matt Stevens
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote and spoke often about the craft of writing—the physical act of putting pen to paper. In his Nobel Lecture in 1995, Heaney paid homage to the great writers who preceded him.
Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS | Lights...
Tue., Oct. 8, 2013 | Jennifer Goldman
Don't forget to look up next month when you visit the new permanent exhibition "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library." Beginning Nov. 9, you'll be able to re-enter the Library Main Exhibition Hall for the first time
Art
EXHIBITIONS | Face to Face to Face
Fri., Sept. 27, 2013 | Matt Stevens
"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting" opens on Saturday in the Boone Gallery at The Huntington and features more than two dozen paintings by Renaissance luminaries such as Domenico Ghirlandaio
Library
A Treasure Among Treasures
Tue., Aug. 27, 2013 | Sue Hodson
What do Prince Charles, Terry Jones of Monty Python fame, and author Hilary Mantel have in common? Apart from their British roots, all three have been assisted by Mary Robertson, The Huntington's William A. Moffett Curator of British Historical Manuscripts.
Library
Let Them Keep Cake
Fri., Aug. 23, 2013 | Jennifer Goldman
A few months back a volunteer in our manuscripts department came across a rather unusual item in the uncataloged papers of Edwin Carpenter, Ph.D., who was a bibliographer, librarian, and editor at UCLA
Library
Susanita’s Album
Wed., Aug. 21, 2013 | Cris Lutz
Author Helen Hunt Jackson set her 1884 novel Ramona on the fictional Moreno Rancho, a site allegedly inspired by Rancho Camulos, the Santa Clara River Valley home of Ygnacio del Valle and his family.