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Press Release - National Parks the Focus of Consecutive Exhibitions, Commemorate Centennial

Thu., Feb. 4, 2016
In a wide-ranging examination of the evolving role of the national parks in American life, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will commemorate the centennial of the U.S. National Park Service in exhibitions
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Art and the Garden Movement

Wed., Feb. 3, 2016 | Diana W. Thompson
The relationship between garden design and painting is the subject of "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920," on view Jan. 23–May 9 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery.
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Celebrating Octavia Butler

Wed., Jan. 27, 2016 | Kevin Durkin
This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler's untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday. Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism
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Press Release - Huntington Library Collectors’ Council Helps Purchase Manuscripts by Award-Winning Travel Writer and Novelist Paul Theroux

Tue., Jan. 26, 2016
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. The acquisition is a substantial addition to The Huntington’s already extensive holdings in travel literature and fiction
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Thomas Browne and His World

Thu., Jan. 21, 2016 | Jessica Wolfe
The idiosyncratic physician, essayist, and naturalist Thomas Browne (1605–82) produced a diverse body of writings that reveal a cornucopian range of interests at once scientific and religious: burial practices and mortality (Urn-Burial), the geometrical patterning of nature
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Symbolism in Medieval Lists

Mon., Jan. 18, 2016 | Martha Rust
As a teenager, I thought it would be fun to collect lists, especially the kind that are known by their numbers: the 10 essentials for day hiking, which I learned as a Girl Scout, or the 12 ways that Wonder Bread helped build strong bodies
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Alan Jutzi’s Passion to Serve

Wed., Jan. 13, 2016 | Jennifer A. Watts, William Deverell
Today the Avery Chief Curator of Rare Books at The Huntington, Alan Jutzi, will kick up his office doorstop one last time and shut the door behind him after 45 years of dedicated service.
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Bulbs and Roses

Thu., Jan. 7, 2016 | Diana W. Thompson
Earlier this month, a group of dedicated volunteers began the gargantuan task of pruning The Huntington's more than 3,000 rose bushes. Hard pruning once a year keeps roses healthy