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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. The acquisition is a substantial addition to The Huntington’s already extensive holdings in travel literature and fiction

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will stage an intervention in its historic Huntington Art Gallery of works by Alex Israel, one of the most recognizable emerging artists on the contemporary art stage.

In a bold move to support the future of the humanities in the United States, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the University of California, Riverside have launched a new program aimed at increasing the number of faculty members in the humanities at public research universities

A new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens examining Chinese-American immigration in early 20th-century Los Angeles goes on view this fall in the Library, West Hall. The name You Chung (“Y.C.”) Hong (1898–1977) still elicits respect and pride among longtime residents of Los Angeles’ Chinatown.

“The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920” is set to open at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Jan. 23, 2016—the only West Coast stop on a five-venue tour. The Huntington will be showcasing a hand-picked selection of 17 paintings

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today a diverse slate of upcoming exhibitions united by a broad common theme—the concept of what it is to be American and how both national and international influences have shaped American culture.

A focused loan exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will explore the various ways in which American artists have represented crowds in modern urban life. “A World of Strangers: Crowds in American Art” is on view from Oct. 17, 2015, to April 4, 2016, in the Huntington Art Gallery.

The eccentric beauty of the plant kingdom will be celebrated in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical illustrations running June 13–Aug. 23, 2015 (Saturdays and Sundays only), at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.