There is a certain predictability in the ways the gardens enchant visitors from season to season. And you can always count on visitors lining up to see the Gutenberg Bible or the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. But each year you can also count on the unexpected. Here are … Continue reading
A look back on the year of the Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The Huntington will be open every day this week for extended hours, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. All major garden areas are now reopened … Continue reading
A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The Huntington records dozens of lectures and conference proceedings each year and posts them to iTunes U. Here are some audio programs to round … Continue reading
A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The year 2011 was strong in new acquisitions—and also in stories about gifts and purchases that added to the riches of the holdings in … Continue reading
A look back on the year of The Huntington Blogs, where we covered more than a hundred stories about the Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. If you haven’t completed your holiday shopping, you might consider buying a number of books that we covered in the blog this year, many … Continue reading
Matthew Hersch, co-curator of the Huntington exhibition “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California,” was first drawn to the stars as a boy in the 1970s in Scarsdale, N.Y., where he got hold of books from the public library and read about astronauts, rockets, and space colonies. His … Continue reading
The Huntington has long offered classes and family programs for a variety of ages—from preschool series for ages 3 to 4 to after-school programs for ages 5 to 6 and Saturday workshops for ages 7 to 12. But this fall, The Huntington debuted a couple classes for high school teens, … Continue reading
One of the most popular Huntington exhibitions of the past decade was “The Bible and the People,” which featured dozens of Bibles on view in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. Lori Anne Ferrell, co-curator of the 2004 exhibition, went on to publish a book of the same title in … Continue reading
They call it “CSI: Miami,” but they film it here. So you’re probably no longer surprised when local people and places pop up on the screen—but it’s still fun to have some advance warning. In last week’s episode, it was Huntington docent Carol Black, clearly visible as a “shopper in … Continue reading
When was the last time you wrote a real, honest-to-goodness letter? In the age of e-mail and texting, it is only natural to assume that the glorious age of letter writing was far superior to, say, the confines of 140 characters on Twitter. But while we might indeed write fewer … Continue reading