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Sandra Ludig Brooke, Librarian of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, has been named the Avery Director of the Library at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, The Huntington's Interim President, Steve Hindle, announced today.

Guests can experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of a traditional Chinese festival on Tuesday, Oct. 3, during the annual Harvest Moon Celebration at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

A sweeping international loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens opens on Sept. 16, 2017 to explore how the depiction of Latin American nature contributed to art and science from the late 1400s to the mid-1800s.

Phillip E. Bloom has been named the new curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The appointment was made official today, according to James Folsom, the Telleen/Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens.

One of the most famous paintings in British and American history, The Blue Boy, made around 1770 by English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), will undergo its first major technical examination and conservation treatment.

A fall exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on the American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings.

Thirty-two exquisite glass vases designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, on loan from a private collection, will be featured in an exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present new work and related programming this fall by seven artists who conducted research in The Huntington’s collections during the second year of a five-year initiative called /five, which this year is based on the theme of “collecting” and “collections.”