A simple idea planted more than 10 years ago came to life when board members of the California Avocado Society welcomed Brokaw, Rodriguez, and Shepherd family members to celebrate the successful establishment of Shepherd-Brokaw Orchard, the heart of a new Huntington Avocado Collection. Continue reading
Well, this is a first! Visitors to The Huntington through Monday, May 2, will get to preview two of the three works under consideration for acquisition by the Art Collectors’ Council on Saturday evening.
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For the 16th year, the Huntington Library Press will represent The Huntington at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year, the festival moves from its usual venue at UCLA to the USC campus. Continue reading
After knocking out a comparatively thin pond bottom in the first of these upper ponds, workers encountered a sandwich of moist soil on top of a solid concrete second bottom, one that is clearly the original floor of the pond. Continue reading
One 40-foot container on a cargo ship began its journey at Nakamura’s workshop in Kyoto, where craftsmen who had restored the wooden elements of Seifu-an (our teahouse) carefully packed them away to reassemble here at the Gardens. Simultaneously, the Japanese pond is drained and work continues behind the newly erected construction fence. Continue reading
While out in the Shakespeare Garden yesterday, one of the guards reminded me that April 23 (this Saturday) is the day we celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday. We have replanted the garden just in time to bring a bit more life and color to the clearing over which Shakespeare presides. Continue reading
“Revisiting the Regency: England, 1811–1820″ opens Saturday, April 23, which happens to be William Shakespeare’s birthday. While the Regency era took place 200 years after Shakespeare’s death, it nonetheless felt the great playwright’s genius. Continue reading
Monday was President’s Day all over again. Pulitzer Prizes in history and biography went to books about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Many Huntington scholars have been past winners and finalists for the award. Continue reading
Botanist that I am, seemingly trivial and arcane plant knowledge sometimes gets in the way of simple, normal experiences. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, which always means to me that people make convenient and curious choices while trying to round up palm fronds for decoration. Continue reading
A painting by John Harrison Mills (1842–1916) in the exhibition “Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art” gives everyone a chuckle. Leo G. Mazow, who co-curated the exhibition discusses the work in his essay. Continue reading