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News Release - The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership
Mon., Oct. 18, 2021
In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The Huntington to purchase masterpieces of European or American art to add to its collection.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires a Comprehensive Collection on the History of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
Tue., Oct. 12, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired one of the world’s most significant libraries focused on the history of cardiology and cardiovascular science.
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News Release - Kehinde Wiley's "Portrait of a Young Gentleman" Revealed Today
Sat., Oct. 2, 2021
Visitors get a first look at Kehinde Wiley's A Portrait of a Young Gentleman today as it makes its world debut at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The institution's newly commissioned work reconceives its famous painting The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) by Thomas Gainsborough in a contemporary...
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News Release - Key Painting from the Age of Enlightenment Will Be Presented at The Huntington
Wed., Sept. 22, 2021
Joseph Wright of Derby’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) will be installed in the context of two strengths of The Huntington’s collections: British art and the history of science “Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby”
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News Release - The Huntington Commissions Kehinde Wiley to Paint a New Work Inspired by "The Blue Boy"
Thu., Sept. 9, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has commissioned the renowned artist Kehinde Wiley to create a new work inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770).
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News Release - Yinshi Lerman-Tan Appointed Associate Curator of American Art at The Huntington
Thu., Sept. 2, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the appointment of Yinshi Lerman-Tan as the new Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art.
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News Release - The Huntington to Present Its American Art through a New Lens, with "Borderlands" Reinstallation Opening This Fall
Tue., Aug. 17, 2021
A portion of The Huntington's art collection will be contextualized with contributions from contemporary artists Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art
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News Release - Linde B. Lehtinen Appointed Curator of Photography at The Huntington
Tue., Aug. 3, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today the appointment of Linde B. Lehtinen as curator of photography
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News Release - Huntington to Lend Its Iconic "Blue Boy" to the National Gallery, London
Tue., June 29, 2021
One hundred years after Henry E. Huntington purchased Thomas Gainsborough’s masterpiece, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) from the Duke of Westminster, and it set sail from England for its new home in the United States
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News Release - Huntington Adds Three New Members to Board of Trustees
Wed., June 23, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Trustees. They are Christine Bender, J. Mario Molina, and Mei-Lee Ney.
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News Release - Huntington Announces Retirement of Loren Rothschild, Expansion of Board of Trustees
Wed., June 9, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens today announced a pair of developments regarding its Board of Trustees: Loren Rothschild, serving as a member since 2009 and as chair since 2017, will retire to become Trustee Emeritus
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News Release - Chinese Garden’s New Art Gallery Will Make its Debut with an Inaugural Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Calligraphy
Thu., June 3, 2021
Postponed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the highly anticipated opening of the Chinese Garden’s new art gallery is now scheduled to take place this summer at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens