Artist: Dominique Fung
Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art
Artist: Mineo Mizuno
Stroll Garden
Artist: Toshio Aoki
Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art
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Take a closer look at contemporary artist Dominique Fung’s monumental painting with Sophia Quach McCabe, curatorial research associate of American art. The work is part of The Huntington’s permanent collection and is on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art.
Catherine Ceniza Choy is the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington. Her research focuses on the life and legacy of Filipina food scientist, chemist, and humanitarian Maria Ylagan Orosa, examining the intersections of food science, botany, and U.S. colonialism in the Philippines.
At The Huntington, Choy is working with rare books, archival photographs, and early 20th-century educational records, as well as newly digitized photographic collections of the Philippines, to contextualize Orosa’s scientific contributions within broader historical and cultural frameworks. Her project contributes to ongoing scholarship in Asian American history, global foodways, and the history of science.
Choy’s research also informed a Maria Orosa–inspired planting in The Huntington’s Kitchen Garden, now open, highlighting the foods and plants central to Orosa’s work.
As a site for the preservation of the wide-ranging histories, cultures, and perspectives that make up the Asian American experience, The Huntington’s Art Museum has been actively collecting and displaying Asian American art.
Yukio Lippit, professor of Japanese art and architecture at Harvard University, discusses how The Huntington’s Shōya House offers a unique opportunity to explore an abundance of ideas and elements about Japanese architecture as a whole.
In 1906, Nekketsu Takei produced at least two maps of Hawaiʻi to attract Japanese immigrants as well as to help newcomers familiarize themselves with the islands.
The Huntington has acquired 216 rare photographs depicting life and culture in the Philippines from 1858 to 1910.
Author Lisa See has given The Huntington a trove of more than 300 rare glass plate negatives and photographs, some dating back to the late 19th century.
This symposium, held on March 4, 2023, brought together scholars, public intellectuals, and community leaders to reflect on Asian American histories and experiences in California.
Explore the history of Los Angeles’ Chinatown, the first community in North America to be planned and owned by people of Chinese descent.
For 86 years, Phoenix Bakery’s confections have been featured in the celebrations of countless birthday parties, weddings, and other festive occasions. The bakery’s historical archive at The Huntington offers scholars insights into the formative years of Los Angeles’ New Chinatown and chronicles the bakery’s impact.
On April 13, 1982, Lily Lee Chen was elected to the city council of Monterey Park, a city that had become one of the first “suburban Chinatowns” in the United States. In 1984, Chen made history by becoming the first female Chinese American mayor in the nation.
