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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2025 | Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”—recently commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.
Beside the Edge of the World
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).
News Release - Unique Bonsai Exhibition Opens March 14
Visitors will discover an expansive new way to look at miniature trees in "Lifelines/Timelines: Exploring The Huntington's Collections Through Bonsai," on view March 14 through June 15 at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Many Happy Returns
Abraham Lincoln never set foot in California, but the Huntington Library has become one of the premier repositories of Lincolnian—manuscripts, books, letters, and ephemera by and about our 16th president. In 1914, Henry Huntington purchased the collection of William H. Lambert, a Philadelphia lawyer who was known as one of the "Big Five" collectors of Lincoln memorabilia.
A Stinky Family Tree
The newest flowering of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum, or "Corpse Flower") at The Huntington has generated good questions about the origin of this plant at our institution. This wonder of the vegetable kingdom has now flowered for us five times
Heather Hart
Heather Hart leads a team of five professionals and oversees the network of systems and systems architecture that underpin The Huntington's digital infrastructure.
Exploring The Huntington’s Collections Through Bonsai
Visitors can discover an expansive new way to look at miniature trees in "Lifelines/Timelines: Exploring The Huntington's Collections Through Bonsai," on view Oct. 17, 2020 to Jan. 25, 2021.
Utopia is Nowhere
Carribean Fragoza, a freelance journalist who writes about art in Southern California, Vanessa Wilkie, the William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History at The Huntington, and artist, designer, writer, educator, and /five participant Rosten Woo sat down to discuss More's Utopia.
Research & Fellowships
The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library, art, and botanical collections.
All in the Orchid Family
What comes to mind when you think of the word "orchid"? Do you picture the wrist corsage that you wore to your high school prom? Are you seeing the potted blooms in the floral section of the grocery store?
Learning Resources
… and learn more about her work as you make art inspired by five of her artworks Available in English and Spanish Celebra …
Wedding Planner Qualifications
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ORCHID COLLECTION | An Extraordinary Orchid Blooms at The Huntington
In 2002, a roadside orchid stand in the Peruvian countryside was the opening scene of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of orchidology. An American orchid collector, Michael Kovach, brought back a slipper orchid he had purchased there.
Hearing NASA’s Earth Science Satellites
As visual strategists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dan Goods and David Delgado use art and design to explain science. Their newest project is the Orbit Pavilion sound experience, which recently opened at The Huntington. The large silver structure sits on the Celebration Lawn by the terrace of the 1919 café.
The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Five works by Nigerian-born, Los Angeles–based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby are spotlighted in a series curated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and each artist.
Women Making Art
In 2016, The Huntington launched /five, a five-year contemporary arts initiative focused on creative collaboration. The plan? Each year, a different arts or cultural organization is selected to bring in artists to create works in response to The Huntington's library, art, and botanical collections in new and unforeseen ways.
Lily Ponds and Meadow
Established in 1904, the Lily Ponds were the first garden built on Henry E. Huntington’s property.
Henry Moore on Paper
Can a piece of sculpture and a print on paper have the same effect? The differences between them seem clear.
EXHIBITIONS | Lifting the Veil [video]
When a visitor enters the refurbished Library Exhibition Hall, it may seem as if the rare artifacts in that hushed and glittering space appeared as if by magic. Yet the new permanent exhibition, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times," is no conjurer's trick.
Beside the Edge of the World
The new visual and written works in "Beside the Edge of the World" guide us boldly beyond the limits of the world documented in archives
Rituals of Labor and Engagement: Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr.
L.A. artists Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr.
God’s Suicide by Harmony Holiday
Join actor Larry Powell as he portrays writer and public intellectual James Baldwin in this production of "Made in L.A.
Corporate Partners
The Huntington’s Corporate Partners receive special benefits for employees, executives, and clients, while helping to keep The Huntington accessible to the community at large.
Highlights from Founders’ Day 2024: Foundations and Futures
On Feb. 22, 2024, Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence sat down with Lori Bettison-Varga, president of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, for a conversation that looked back at The Huntington’s past five years under Lawrence’s leadership and forward at the institution’s strategic aspirations.