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Loretta Bennetts Forever
Jun. 18, 2019 | News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Works by Several African American Artists, Early Abstract Oil Sketches, and a Tiffany Chair

Art Collectors’ Council celebrated the canon, but also “filled a gap and expanded the narrative.”

Huntington Centennial logo
Jun. 4, 2019 | News
News Release - The Huntington to Enter Float in the 2020 Rose Parade® for the First Time in 50 Years

Entry to mark The Huntington's Centennial Celebration

Huntington Centennial logo
Jun. 4, 2019 | News
News Release - Centennial Celebration Offers Something for Everyone with a Range of Innovative Programs

Press Event Sept. 5, 10:30 a.m.

Yearlong series of activities includes exhibitions, symposia, talks, artist interventions, and interactive website features that invite everyone to participate.

Rose Parade® float announced today

henry huntington sitting
May. 28, 2019 | Exhibitions
News Release - 1919, the Year of The Huntington's Founding, is Subject of Sweeping Centennial Exhibition

275 objects from The Huntington's vast collections comprise "Nineteen Nineteen," on view Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 20, 2020
MaryLou and George Boone Gallery

Press Preview Fri., Sept. 20, 10 a.m.–noon

Tang Qingnian installation mockup
May. 15, 2019 | News
News Release - Monumental Site-Specific Installation by Contemporary Chinese Artist Tang Qingnian Will Go on View June 22

Artist will discuss the work and his residency at The Huntington on May 19

Caligrapher Tang Qingnian
Mar. 20, 2019 | News
News Release - Artist Tang Qingnian 唐慶年 Named 2019 Cheng Family Foundation Artist-in-Residence

Inspired by The Huntington's Chinese Garden, the program promotes an understanding of Chinese culture through the arts

Mount Wilson Observatory
Feb. 13, 2019 | News
News Release - Huntington and Caltech Launch New Research Institute in the History of Science and Technology
Japanese Heritage House
Feb. 12, 2019 | News
News Release - The Huntington to Add 320-Year-Old Magistrate's House to the Japanese Garden

Work gets underway in Japan later this year to dismantle the structure in Marugame

A selection of manuscripts from the papers of F. Marion Crawford (1854–1909)
Feb. 7, 2019 | News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Papers of F. Marion Crawford, Popular 19th-Century American Novelist

Library Collectors' Council also purchases maps related to China's Boxer Rebellion, a collection of Civil War letters by a former Shaker, four rare 16th-century medical texts and an exquisite 1590s miniature prayer book

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Robin Coste Lewis, Nina Katchadourian, Dana Johnson, and Rosten Woo. Photo: Kate Lain
Jan. 23, 2019 | Exhibitions
News Release - The Huntington and LA Arts Organization Clockshop Reunite for Contemporary Art Initiative

For the fourth year of The Huntington's /five initiative, artists Nina Katchadourian, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Rosten Woo; writer Dana Johnson; and poet Robin Coste Lewis will create new work inspired by Huntington collections

Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Landmark (installed at the artist’s studio, Culver City, Calif.), 2016. Bronze, 75 x 100 x 94 in. Collection of Bianca and Stuart Roden, London. Photo: Studio Enrique Martínez Celaya
Jan. 15, 2019 | News
News Release - Huntington Launches New Partnership with Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya Including Installation of Three Works

A painting will go on view Jan. 23; two outdoor sculptures go on view Jan. 30

Celia Paul, The Brontë Parsonage (with Charlotte’s Pine and Emily’s Path to the Moors), 2017. Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 29 1/4 in. © Celia Paul. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice.
Dec. 4, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Exhibition on Contemporary British Artist Celia Paul to Come to The Huntington

Curated by prize-winning critic Hilton Als, "Celia Paul" showcases seven paintings in the historic Huntington Art Gallery
Feb. 9–July 8, 2019

Artwork by Mario Ybarra Jr. (left) and artwork by Carolina Caycedo (right)
Oct. 24, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - New Huntington-Inspired Works by Artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. to go on View Nov. 10

"Rituals of Labor and Engagement: Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr."
Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing

Installation view of Project Blue Boy
Sep. 19, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Project Blue Boy Set to Open in The Huntington Art Gallery

Press Preview: Fri., Sept. 21, 10 a.m. - noon

Heather Hart
Sep. 18, 2018 | News
News Release - Huntington Names New Vice President of Information Technology
Sep. 6, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Announces a Year-Long Centennial Celebration to Begin in Fall of 2019
Exhibitions and other special programs will mark the celebration that will run from Sept. 2019 to Sept. 2020
A new commemorative rose variety, 'Huntington's Hundredth,' to be unveiled Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018
Christina Nielsen. Photo credit: Darren Pellegrino
Aug. 16, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Names Christina Nielsen as New Director of the Art Collections
The curator of the collection and exhibition program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has also worked in curatorial and leadership roles at the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s rendering of the Flowery Brush Library
Jul. 18, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Breaks Ground on Final Phase of its Chinese Garden to Add New Features Including Pavilions, Art Gallery, Café

When complete, Liu Fang Yuan will be among the largest Chinese gardens in the world

A ceremonial groundbreaking for donors and press is scheduled for Aug. 28; Target opening date: February 2020

Karen Lawrence
Jul. 5, 2018 | News
News Release - Karen R. Lawrence Named President of The Huntington
Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden
Jun. 20, 2018 | News
News Release - Award-winning Playwright Stan Lai to Present New Site-specific Work at The Huntington

CalArts Center for New Performance and The Huntington in association with the Shanghai Kunqu Troupe present "Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden"
Sept. 21–Oct. 26, 2018

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