Feb. 12, 2022—May 30, 2022
Feb. 12–May 30, 2022 | “Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby” explores one of the great masterpieces from the Age of Enlightenment, Joseph Wright of Derby's monumental An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump alongside 15 works from The Huntington's own collections. |
Jan. 29, 2022—May 16, 2022
Part 1: Aug. 28–Dec. 13, 2021 | Part 2: Jan. 29–May 16, 2022 | This exhibition of contemporary Chinese calligraphy is the inaugural installation in the Chinese Garden's new art gallery, the Studio for Lodging the Mind.
Oct. 29, 2016—Dec. 31, 2021
NASA's "Orbit Pavilion" is an outdoor installation where captivating sounds represent the movements of the International Space Station and 19 Earth Science satellites as they orbit above.
Aug. 7, 2021—Nov. 1, 2021
Aug. 7–Nov. 1, 2021 | This two-part exhibition explores The Huntington's role in documenting the human experience through more than 100 items from the Library collections.
Oct. 2, 2021
Oct. 2, 2021–Jan. 3, 2022 | A newly commissioned painting by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, debuted Oct. 2, 2021 in the Thornton Portrait Gallery, across from Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy (ca. 1770).
April 17, 2021—Aug. 1, 2021
April 17-Aug. 1, 2021 | "Made in L.A. 2020: a version" debuts new installations, videos, films, sculpture, performances, and paintings from Los Angeles–based artists, many commissioned specifically for the exhibition.
Oct. 17, 2020—Jan. 25, 2021
Oct. 17, 2020–Jan. 25, 2021 | This exhibition explores the march of time by comparing the age of California juniper bonsai trees alongside major moments in the institution's 100-year history.
Jan. 18, 2020—Jan. 4, 2021
Jan. 18, 2020–Jan. 4, 2021 | American artist Andrew Raftery's series of twelve plates charts the evolution of the garden he planted in Providence, Rhode Island, as it grew and changed over the course of a calendar year.
Jan. 25, 2020—May 11, 2020
Jan. 25, 2020–May 11, 2020 | Five studies of fictional characters by contemporary artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye create a dialogue with The Huntington's collection of formal 18th-century British portraits in this exhibition curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als.
Nov. 16, 2008—March 17, 2020
"Beautiful Science" features hundreds of artifacts that tell the stories of the breakthroughs, discoveries, and people at the forefront of astronomy, natural history, medicine, and light.
