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Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Nov. 24, 2021 by Kathy Musial
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On Sept. 24, 2021, a Queensland kauri (Agathis robusta) in The Huntington's Rose Garden was designated as a California Big Tree, The Huntington's first such honor. On Nov. 5, Matt Ritter, professor of...
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Lecture
Drinking and Scribbling in the Garden: Xu Wei's Wild Cursive Calligraphy
Nov. 18, 2021
Peter Sturman professor of art history at the University of California Santa Barbara discusses the artistic polymath Xu Wei (1521–1593) and his uninhibited style of calligraphy known as kuangcao...
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Portrait of Moanahonga (Great Walker)
Nov. 17, 2021 by Dennis Carr
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This year, The Huntington acquired a striking portrait of Moanahonga (Great Walker), an Ioway chief, painted around 1824 by the American artist Charles Bird King ...
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Revising a Masterpiece
Nov. 15, 2021
With a new painting that responds to Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, Kehinde Wiley again revises a "masterpiece," adding Black youth to the repertoire of English grand manner portraiture, redirecting...
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News Release - Major American Art Reinstallation, “Borderlands,” Set to Open Nov. 20
Nov. 10, 2021
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is set to open “Borderlands,” a new permanent collections installation that explores a more expansive and contextualized...
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News Release - The Huntington and Ghetto Film School Present 15 New Student Works in Inaugural Installation
Nov. 10, 2021
SAN MARINO, Calif.—In an ongoing partnership with Ghetto Film School, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is serving as...
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News Release - At The Huntington, 2021 Served as a Banner Year for American Art Acquisitions
Nov. 4, 2021
SAN MARINO, Calif.—In 2021, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens acquired more than 50 important works of art by a wide range of artists from North America. The acquisitions contribute...
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Kehinde Wiley: “A Portrait of a Young Gentleman” Artist Remarks
Nov. 2, 2021
The Huntington celebrated American artist Kehinde Wiley with a reception in honor of his painting A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, commissioned by The Huntington as a contemporary response to Thomas ...
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Reading the Lotus: A Garden of Words
Nov. 1, 2021
Wang Shixiang 王世襄 was 93 years old when he created the inscription “Love for the Lotus Pavilion” for The Huntington. The original handscroll is currently on view as part of the exhibition “A...
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Greene & Greene Archives in a Gift from the Gamble House Conservancy
Oct. 28, 2021
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the archives of legendary Arts and Crafts architects Greene & Greene. The trove of approximately 6,000 items...
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Lecture
Frankenstein on Screen: Mary Shelley’s Adapted Progeny
Oct. 28, 2021
Mary Shelley likened the writing of her famous book to Victor Frankenstein’s making of his creature. In this lecture, James Chandler, professor at the University of Chicago and The Huntington's R. Stanton...
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Thoreau’s Walden: Four Contemporary Writers on its Enduring Relevance
Oct. 27, 2021
Authors Kristen Case, Gerald Early, Pico Iyer, and Megan Marshall in conversation with Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literary Collections at The Huntington Spring 2020 and the onset of a global pandemic saw...
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