Past, Present, and Future
The latest issue of “The Magazine Antiques” includes a 16-page spread profiling contemporary artists who find unique connections between their art and items on view in the Huntington Art Gallery.
Interactive Art
This weekend features a new exhibition opening at Cal State Fullerton that has a special connection to The Huntington’s manuscript collection, and Sunday you can come to The Huntington’s Botanical Center to see the one-day show “Art Matters Encore!”
Going Public
February 27 is Founder’s Day, the birthday of Henry Edwards Huntington. Each year, The Huntington commemorates the occasion with a Founder’s Day Lecture, and last week Shelly M. Bennett delivered a talk titled “Private to Public: A Family History of the Collecting and Philanthropy of Collis, Arabella, Archer, and Henry Huntington.” You can listen to an excerpt in today’s blog post.
Chinese New Year Alert—The Dragon is Your Friend
Dragon years are considered energetic and promising, thus one could say with a fair amount of certainty that the year is likely to be one of great upheaval, monumental change, and a spike in China’s national birth rate! You can catch a glimpse of the mythical dragon in the exhibition “Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection,” currently on view in the Chandler Wing of The Huntington’s Scott Galleries.
Whistler’s Brother (In Law)
“Whistler, Haden, and the Gentle Art of Etching” is a new exhibition of 17 works primarily drawn from The Huntington’s collections that takes a focused look at the results of the fruitful relationship between James Abbott McNeill Whistler and a brother-in-law who happened to be an amateur printmaker.
Top 10 Reasons to Expect the Unexpected at The Huntington
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.” Here are some stories about the many ways the collections surprised us this past year, from a death mask of Isaac Newton to a marble likeness of George Washington.
Top 10 Stories about Huntington Acquisitions
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 The Huntington’s collections. Here are 10 memorable stories—from letters, paintings, and a death mask to a tea house that went halfway around the world and back again.
Top 10 Book Suggestions from 2011
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 of which are in stock at The Huntington’s Bookstore & More. Here are some suggestions for consideration.
“California’s First Major Artist”
The Huntington played a significant role in the publication of “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs,” a new catalogue raisonné published by the Getty. It features two essays by Jennifer A. Watts, curator of photographs at The Huntington, as well as more than 350 photos from the collection.
A Catalog to Covet Like an Ancient Chinese Mirror
A two-volume companion to the Huntington exhibition “Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection” is the result of a decade of scholarship by the top academics in the field. The author of volume 1, Suzanne E. Cahill, will speak here on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
