Watch, Read, Listen

"There are books these days on all sorts of subjects," thinks Thomas Cromwell in a passage from Hilary Mantel's latest award-winning novel, Bring Up the Bodies. "Books that advise you how to be a good prince, or a bad one.

A walk in the gardens. Those words usually conjure up a leisurely stroll through a beautiful landscape, with plenty of "stopping to smell the roses" along the way. Most of us would agree that there are few better ways to relax and recharge.

Visitors who've roamed The Huntington might have noticed a bronze plaque near the pool at the south end of the Jungle Garden dedicated to William Hertrich, Henry Huntington's first superintendent of the gardens.

The love affair between The Huntington and the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough is nearly 100 years old. Since Henry E. Huntington began collecting Gainsborough's work in 1911, the institution has presented numerous exhibitions

Hands reveal what we think, but might not say. They express what words cannot, exposing so much about a person. A subject matter of great familiarity, the drawings on view in "A Show of Hands: Drawings from the Huntington's Art Collections, 1600—1900" provide a glimpse

Monday will be your last chance to see the Library's most prized books and manuscripts for a while. Back in June 2012, many of The Huntington's treasures went on temporary display in the Scott Galleries of American Art when the Library Exhibition Hall closed

This past Sunday, the Los Angeles Times published an article devoted to "Form and Landscape," an online exhibition culled from 70,000 images that comprise The Huntington's Southern California Edison archive.

Another post in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this series, Shelley shares fascinating recipes