Watch, Read, Listen

In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. Its celebrity rests on many factors, not least of which is the superb quality of the painting

Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.

In times past, nature delivered challenges in an orderly manner. Every few years we'd hear about a remarkable new pest or disease that threatened whole populations of plants throughout Southern California.

This weekend The Huntington hosts the annual Southland Orchid Show in the Botanical Center's Banta Hall. Billed this year as "Orchid Masquerade," the show promises to present exotic blooms

You may recall a curious story about lost-and-found art that ran in The New York Times last year—a news piece that explained how a long overlooked monumental sculpture of celebrated artist Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) emerged from decades

Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote and spoke often about the craft of writing—the physical act of putting pen to paper. In his Nobel Lecture in 1995, Heaney paid homage to the great writers who preceded him.

Don't forget to look up next month when you visit the new permanent exhibition "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library." Beginning Nov. 9, you'll be able to re-enter the Library Main Exhibition Hall for the first time

"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting" opens on Saturday in the Boone Gallery at The Huntington and features more than two dozen paintings by Renaissance luminaries such as Domenico Ghirlandaio