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News Release - Huntington Adds Three New Members to Board of Trustees
Wed., June 23, 2021The 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, 2021The 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, 2021Postponed 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
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News Release - Huntington Adds Eight Members to Board of Governors
Thu., May 27, 2021The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced that eight new members will join its Board of Governors, effective July 1, 2021.
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News Release - Author Lisa See Gives Huntington Rare Glass Plate Negatives and Photos Depicting LA’s Original Chinatown
Thu., May 13, 2021The trove of images from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were found by her family during the vacating of Old Chinatown.
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News Release - History of Los Angeles’ Chinatown Explored in Online Exhibition and Downtown Outdoor Installation
Thu., April 29, 2021Project draws on the collections of the The Huntington and Los Angeles Public Library to bring history to life through the memories and reactions of community members
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News Release - The Huntington Awards Octavia E. Butler Fellowship to Alyssa Collins
Mon., April 19, 2021The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has awarded Alyssa Collins, assistant professor of English Language and Literature and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina, a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship for the study of the renowned science fiction writer.
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News Release - The Huntington Acquires Letters of Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi, Pioneer of Long-Distance Wireless Telegraphy and Radio
Tue., April 6, 2021Library Collectors’ Council also purchases manuscripts by the British author Amelia Opie (1769–1853), the private journal of U.S. Navy officer Henry Cadwalader (1817-44) about a secret trade mission to the Indian Ocean and East Indies, the world’s first published English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionary