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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

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

The Huntington Library Honors Mark Twain Scholar

"Project Blue Boy" will allow visitors to watch and learn about high-tech analysis and treatment of Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century masterpiece in the historic Thornton Portrait Gallery

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The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera contains 12,300 rare examples from the 17th to 20th century

Library Collectors' Council also purchases manuscript collections of an 18th- and 19th-century British politician and bureaucrat, and of a British officer killed during the Battle of Fort Oswego, as well as a letter reporting on a 1790 Spanish scientific expedition to the Americas and the Pacific.