In the Back of God’s Elbow
Fri., Dec. 28, 2018 | Olga Tsapina
A collection of correspondence yields insight into the Seven Years' WarOn November 13, 1756, James Grahame hastily scribbled a letter at his London residence. The note, addressed to William Mercer in Perth, Scotland, confirmed that Grahame’s friend and William’s brother, Colonel James F. Mercer, was dead.
Reading the Chinese Garden
Fri., Dec. 28, 2018 | Phillip E. Bloom
The garden's curator contemplates its poetry. With the start of the final phase of the Chinese Garden’s construction, we asked the garden’s curator, Phillip E. Bloom, who joined The Huntington in September 2017, to reflect on two of the initial features installed in 2008...
Uncategorized
Looking Back at 2018
Wed., Dec. 26, 2018 | Kevin Durkin
As the year draws to a close, we invite you to revisit a dozen of our favorite stories from this year's Verso offerings.
Exhibitions
Venice: Real and Imagined
Wed., Dec. 19, 2018 | Linda Chiavaroli
Countless novelists, composers, poets, and playwrights have sourced Italy's Venice for their creations. Somewhat less prominent on the cultural radar are the visionary developers, marketing-savvy citrus growers, and architects of expositions who have done the same.
Botanical
From Compost to Collectible
Thu., Dec. 13, 2018 | Usha Lee McFarling
For years, the boxy myrtle hedges running through the heart of the Rose Garden have concerned Tom Carruth, the E.L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at The Huntington.
Lecture
The Lady and George Washington
Wed., Dec. 12, 2018
Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor at Boston College Law School, discusses the responses of George Washington and Benjamin Rush to Eliza Harriot O'Connor's remarkable university lectures in 1787 and their implications for female political status under the Constitution.
Lecture
GardenLust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
Wed., Dec. 12, 2018
Award-winning horticulturist Chris Woods describes the most arresting features in public parks, botanic gardens, and private estates in locations ranging from New Delhi and Dubai to Chile and Australia from his book GardenLust.
Conference
Moving Landscapes: Gardens and Gardening in the Transatlantic World, 1670–1830
Fri., Dec. 7, 2018
Focusing on the imagination and creation of gardens in the disparate geographies of 18th-century Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, this conference explores transatlantic ideas of nation, location, and self, and asks how the experience of gardens might be shared across nations, oceans, and
Conferences
Moving Landscapes
Thu., Dec. 6, 2018 | Stephen Bending and Jennifer Milam
What do we mean by an "English," a "French," or an "American" garden? What are the differences between them in the early modern transatlantic world, and what might they—or those who experience them—still share?
Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition on Contemporary British Artist Celia Paul to Come to The Huntington
Tue., Dec. 4, 2018
Seven paintings by contemporary British artist Celia Paul (born 1959) will be on view Feb. 9 to July 8, 2019, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The eponymously titled exhibition "Celia Paul," is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als
Library
The Prayer Book of Mary, Queen of Scots
Mon., Dec. 3, 2018 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
The family feud between England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) and her cousin, the Scottish Queen Mary (1542–1587)—not "Bloody" Mary, Elizabeth's half-sister—has fascinated people since the 16th century.
Art
Resplendent Reunion
Thu., Nov. 29, 2018 | Thea Page
Something rare and golden will be unveiled in the Huntington Art Gallery this weekend. Beginning Dec. 1, four tempera-with-gold-leaf panels from an altarpiece by Florentine Renaissance master Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507) can be seen reunited on the same wall, hung in a beautiful new display after more than 200 years of...