Watch, Read, Listen

Tucked away in a lesser-known corner of The Huntington, on a half-acre site that once served as a gravel parking lot, sits a garden known as the Ranch. This demonstration garden is literally bursting with the sights, smells, and sounds of a mostly edible landscape 

How Lincoln's death helped revive the practice of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation"The President still breathes," began the dispatch sent to the press before dawn on April 15, 1865. Just hours after Abraham Lincoln had been shot

It's as if Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), the Anglo-Swiss artist who created the recently acquired painting The Three Witches (1782), had concocted a magic brew to ensure his canvas would eventually end up among The Huntington's treasure trove of artworks.

Richard W. Fox ties Lincoln's body to his words and deedsOn April 21, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington, D.C., for Springfield, Ill. It offered northerners "a moving shrine they could approach as pilgrims"

When critically acclaimed portrait artist Don Bachardy (b. 1934) visited Berlin earlier this month to explore the city where his late partner, novelist Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), lived from 1929 to 1933, the trip was likely bittersweet.

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