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News Release - New Exhibition Will Explore the Making of The Huntington’s Chinese Garden

Wed., July 6, 2022
Visitors to The Huntington will have the chance to gain insight into the design and construction of its Chinese Garden in the “Crafting a Garden: Inside the Creation of Liu Fang Yuan”
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Titanic Mysteries

Tue., July 5, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
In the botanical world, the Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan Arum, has been an A-list celebrity. The Huntington first acquired one in March 1999, and five months later, the Scott Gallery Loggia was the site of the first recorded flowering of Titan Arum in California.
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News Release - “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts” Coming to The Huntington

Thu., June 30, 2022
The international traveling exhibition explores 18th-century French decorative arts as inspiration for Disney’s celebrated animated films, including Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.
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Water, Water, Everywhere?

Tue., June 28, 2022 | Sandy Masuo
In arid 21st-century California, April arrives at the tail end of the rainy season, which concluded this year with a water shortage emergency announcement. By the time state officials released the statement on April 27, The Huntington's Botanical and Facilities staff members, who closely monitor rainfall and water consumption throughout the year, had already prepared a detailed water conservation strategy.
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Welcoming the 2022–23 Research Fellows

Tue., June 21, 2022
June is a wonderful time of year at The Huntington: The flowers are in bloom, the gardens and galleries are bustling with visitors, and a fresh cohort of scholars are once again poring over our world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, paintings, prints, and much more.
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2022 Corpse Flower Time Lapse

Sun., June 19, 2022

A time lapse of the 2022 Corpse Flower bloom at The Huntington recorded over a period of about 40 hours. The rare Amorphophallus titanum plant bloomed on June 19, 2022.

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Laura Aguilar’s California

Tue., June 14, 2022 | Linde B. Lehtinen, Ph.D., Dennis Carr
A woman lies naked on the ground, warmed by the sun. The organic lines of her body echo the color and curves of the stone beneath her, and she seems to merge with her environment. The central image is flanked by two photographs of desert bunchgrasses and California fuchsia plants, whose tendrils and leaves cast painterly shadows. This work was created by American photographer Laura Aguilar (1959–2018).
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Coloring the Conservation Conversation

Tue., June 7, 2022

Author J. Drew Lanham discusses what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. The convergence of ornithologist, college professor, poet, author, and conservation activist blend to bring our awareness of the natural world and our moral responsibility for it forward in new ways. Candid by nature—and because of it—Lanham examines how conservation must be a rigorous science and evocative art, inviting diversity and race to play active roles in celebrating our natural world.

This is the Dibner Lecture in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Additional support provided by Philip A. Swan.