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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

Moore Mask
May. 24, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Henry Moore Prints Exhibition Opens June 16

"Spirit and Essence, Line and Form: The Graphic Work of Henry Moore"
Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing
June 16-Oct. 1, 2018

May. 23, 2018 | News
News from the Office of the Board of Trustees

The Huntington Library Honors Mark Twain Scholar

L.A. Stock Exchange
May. 9, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Fall Exhibition to Explore L.A.’s Extraordinary Architectural Past

"Architects of a Golden Age: Highlights from The Huntington's Southern California Architecture Collection"

On view Oct. 6, 2018–Jan. 21, 2019

Project Blue Boy
May. 3, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Blue Boy Conservation Exhibition Set to Open Sept. 22

"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

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

Rosselli Madonna
May. 1, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Two Italian Renaissance Paintings to Complement its “Madonna and Child in Glory”

Art Collectors' Council purchases Cosimo Rosselli's Saint Ansanus and Saint Anthony Abbot, panels that once formed the lower third of an altarpiece featuring the "Madonna"

Left: Carolina Caycedo at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo: Kate Lain. Right: Mario Ybarra Jr. at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo: Kate Lain.
Apr. 12, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Selects Vincent Price Art Museum for Contemporary Art Collaboration
Noted Los Angeles artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. to create new work inspired by Huntington collections for the third year of The Huntington's /five initiative
joel klein
Feb. 20, 2018 | News
News Release - Joel A. Klein Named First Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at The Huntington
Fold-open Valentine card. German, ca.1900.
Feb. 12, 2018 | News
News Release - Premier Collection of Antique Valentines Comes to The Huntington

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

winkel tulip tree
Feb. 8, 2018 | Exhibitions
News Release - Traveling Exhibition Spotlights One of the Planet's Most Important Resources: Trees

Works by international artists to be highlighted in "Out of the Woods," on view May 19–Aug. 27, 2018, in The Huntington's Brody Botanical Center

Darwin Family
Feb. 6, 2018 | News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires Unique Darwin Photo Album

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.

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