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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.

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.

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

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.

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