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Past Exhibitions


Exhibitions

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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.

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Beautiful Science

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.

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Beside the Edge of the World

Nov. 9, 2019–Feb. 24, 2020

Nov. 9, 2019–Feb. 24, 2020 | Five artists create works based on The Huntington's collections investigating ideas of perfection using Thomas More's satirical work Utopia (1516).

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Apariciones/Apparitions

Aug. 17, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020

Aug. 17, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020 | Apariciones /Apparitions is a video by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Carolina Caycedo that reconceptualizes iconic Huntington spaces through Afro-Latinx and indigenous spiritual practices.

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What Now, Part 1

Oct. 19, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020

Oct. 19, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020 | This two-part exhibition explores The Huntington's role in documenting the human experience through more than 100 items from the Library collections. 

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Nineteen Nineteen

Sept. 21, 2019–Jan. 20, 2020

Sep. 21, 2019–Jan. 20, 2020 | This Centennial exhibition examines The Huntington as an institution through its founding during the tumultuous year of 1919 with objects drawn from its library and art collections.

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John Ruskin

Sept. 28, 2019–Jan. 6, 2020

Sep. 28, 2019–Jan. 6, 2020 | This exhibition brings together 16 works by artists whose careers have either been lauded or criticized by John Ruskin, the Victorian writer and polymath.

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Project Blue Boy

Sept. 22, 2018–Sept. 30, 2019

One of The Huntington's most renowned paintings, The Blue Boy was Gainsborough's first attempt at full-length Van Dyck dress, based on the work of revolutionary 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.

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Tang Qingnian

June 22, 2019–Sept. 23, 2019

Visual artist Tang Qingnian 唐慶年 created these paintings as a tribute to the nature lost in the recent devastating wildfires. Five prints of the paintings hang from a bamboo framework above the Chinese Garden. 

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Charles Doyle

June 15, 2019–Sept. 23, 2019

Sixteen fantastical watercolors from early in Charles Doyle's career show his unique illustrative treatment of popular, Victorian-era fairies and other fantasy themes.