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A photographer immerses himself in The Huntington's bonsai and penjing collectionsPhotographer Stephen Hilyard does things big. In the summer of 2007, he donned a dry suit and jumped into a lake in Þingvellir (in English, Thingvellir)

If you're a garden lover in Southern California, there's probably one thing on your mind as the fall planting season gets underway: drought. Finding ways to cut back on watering in the garden has become a high priority for everyone in the region.

It may come as no surprise to you, savvy reader, that the years spent preparing for a major exhibition are fraught with considerable challenges and no small amount of pain. An elusive loan, an uncooperative colleague, an intransigent donor, an unanticipated expense

The Huntington's recently acquired The Three Witches or The Weird Sisters, painted by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) in about 1785, goes on view tomorrow in the Huntington Art Gallery. It's one of three full-size color versions that the artist made.

When black became the new blackThe death of France's Louis XV in 1774 was good for fashion. At the time, much of Europe followed a long-established etiquette

Finding the sublime in a newly acquired pair of paintingsEighteenth-century travelers on the Grand Tour of Europe sought out Naples, Italy, not only for its museums and ancient ruins, but also for that marvel of nature

"I ask myself: 'Will this thing last for at least 100 years?'" Hudson Roysher told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. "My work has to be of the best quality that I am capable of at the time." Roysher, a renowned silversmith whose work is displayed in The Huntington's Virginia Steele

It bloomed, it smelled weird, and then, within hours, the much-anticipated show was over. And while the excitement surrounding the bloom may have passed, the images of it remain, some already superseded by other images we've taken since