Watch, Read, Listen

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

The second annual LitFest Pasadena takes place this Saturday, May 11, at Pasadena's Central Park. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can catch readings, performances, and panel discussions from more than 75 authors, storytellers, performers, and exhibitors.

While the genesis of "When They Were Wild: Recapturing California's Wildflower Heritage" was The Huntington's collections of wildflower paintings by Alice Chittenden and Ethel Wickes, other collections made their way into the exhibition through unexpected routes.

Deciding what goes into a library exhibition is far more difficult than you might expect. After months of research in books and archival collections, you're expected to concentrate all of that knowledge and insight into fewer than 100 items.

It's just one shot, really. It might not even be in the final show. But creating that one shot took permission from the highest levels of The Huntington art division and several hours of direct supervision over the course of two days by a specialist