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A major U.S. exhibition on Flemish master portrait artist Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) opens today at New York's Frick Collection. The Huntington has its own van Dyck story to tell. At its center is the artist's beautiful full-length painting Anne (Killigrew) Kirke

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired one of the world’s most comprehensive collections on the history of human reproduction, the institution announced today. The Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection on Reproductive Biology, composed of some 2,700 rare books

Mitchell Morris, a seasoned technology executive with 18 years’ experience in both for-profit and nonprofit settings, has been named Chief Information Officer at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Laura Skandera Trombley, president of The Huntington, announced this week.

Surprise! There are 11 new acquisitions on view in one room in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art right now. That's great news for neophiles, and even greater news for fans of representational art from the mid-20th century.

The Huntington is rightfully known for its collection of British portraits. Most of these are the product of a professional association between artist and client. For example, Thomas Gainsborough's dazzling full-length portrait of Elizabeth Beaufoy (circa 1780)

Happy 4714! According to the lunar calendar, that's the brand new year that began on Feb. 8, ushering in the Year of the Monkey. In China and in many Asian cultures around the world—and in communities right here in Southern California—the lunar new year is the most important holiday

It's not every day that a lithograph from The Huntington's collections is used to publicize a major archaeological discovery. But that's what happened last month, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration posted one of The Huntington's prints

Throughout the United States and Britain, Lewis Carroll's immortal little girl is being fêted on the occasion of her 150th birthday—with exhibits and events, plays and performances.