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Press Release - Huntington Builds Early 20th Century British Art Collection with Three New Paintings
Tue., May 17, 2016The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired three early 20th-century British paintings associated with the legendary Bloomsbury Group and the influential Slade School of Art in London. The institution also has acquired an 18th-century Italian marble table-top sculpture.
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Press Release - The Huntington Receives Grant From Arts Organization PAC/LA to Host Artist-in-Residence
Tue., May 10, 2016This summer, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will host internationally acclaimed photographer and sculptor Mary Beth Heffernan in an artist-in-residence arrangement made possible by a grant from Los Angeles arts organization Photographic Arts Council/Los Angeles.
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Press Release - New Wing and Entrance to American Art Galleries to Open in October
Thu., March 24, 2016The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that its new 8,600 square-foot addition to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art will open on Oct. 22. Named after the lead donors for the $10.3 million building project, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing includes 5,000 square feet of gallery space
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Press Release - Yasuhiro Ishimoto's Photographs of Greene & Greene Architecture to Go on View for First Time in the U.S.
Tue., March 15, 2016Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s photographs of Greene & Greene architecture will be shown for the first time in the United States in a focused loan exhibition on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from June 18 through Oct. 3, 2016.
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Press Release - Major History of Medicine Collection Comes to The Huntington
Fri., Feb. 26, 2016The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired one of the world’s most comprehensive collections on the history of human reproduction, the institution announced today. The Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection on Reproductive Biology, composed of some 2,700 rare books
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Press Release - Huntington Names New Chief Information Officer
Thu., Feb. 25, 2016Mitchell Morris, a seasoned technology executive with 18 years’ experience in both for-profit and nonprofit settings, has been named Chief Information Officer at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Laura Skandera Trombley, president of The Huntington, announced this week.
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Press Release - National Parks the Focus of Consecutive Exhibitions, Commemorate Centennial
Thu., Feb. 4, 2016In a wide-ranging examination of the evolving role of the national parks in American life, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will commemorate the centennial of the U.S. National Park Service in exhibitions
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Press Release - Huntington Library Collectors’ Council Helps Purchase Manuscripts by Award-Winning Travel Writer and Novelist Paul Theroux
Tue., Jan. 26, 2016The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. The acquisition is a substantial addition to The Huntington’s already extensive holdings in travel literature and fiction