Articles for Huntington Library

'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings

BBC  

'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings John Brett, 1856. 'Reverence for nature' The exhibition also highlights the pioneering environmental work of the lesser-known US scientist, inventor and women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote, whose 1856 publication Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays in The American Journal of Science and Arts, …

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Smell that? A rare corpse flower is about to bloom at the Huntington
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Smell that? A rare corpse flower is about to bloom at the Huntington

LA Times  

This corpse flower dubbed, “Allan the Amorphophallus,” is one of four that bloomed last year at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Over time, the staff has developed ways to coax the plants into blooming every two to three years, said Brandon Tam, associate curator of the Huntington’s orchid collection. Curator Brandon Tam stands next to a blooming …

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Huntington Beach formally adopts parent/guardian children’s book review board
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Huntington Beach formally adopts parent/guardian children’s book review board

LA Times  

Huntington Beach residents marched from the Main Street Branch Library to the pier on Friday night, in protest of proposals to privatize the city’s libraries and institute a children’s book review board. Huntington Beach is moving forward with its parent/guardian children’s book review board after it received another round of approval at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. Jose and Elena …

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The Huntington was gifted four major paintings this year. They fit like a glove
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The Huntington was gifted four major paintings this year. They fit like a glove

LA Times  

Four significant paintings were donated to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in 2023. One room away, David Hockney’s “Tree on Woldgate, 6 March” is installed between two celebrated landscape paintings by John Constable. One is the diminutive “Salisbury Cathedral From the Bishop’s Grounds”, an imposing Gothic church seen framed through trees — a painting known in several …

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A rare corpse flower is set to stink up the Huntington with the smell of dead rats 🤢🐀
1 year, 4 months ago

A rare corpse flower is set to stink up the Huntington with the smell of dead rats 🤢🐀

LA Times  

People view the corpse flower at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Another rare corpse flower is set to bloom any day now at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, unleashing its notoriously pungent odor into the conservatory. Tam said he’s concerned with how the changing climate will disrupt life cycles as plants “try to …

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Opinion: Is Los Angeles a paradise? A guide to the guidebooks that claimed it was
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: Is Los Angeles a paradise? A guide to the guidebooks that claimed it was

LA Times  

After decades of enthusiastically giving Los Angeles tours to out-of-town friends and family, and even co-authoring a walking guide to the city, I’m all too aware that things have changed. “Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels” is a 2011 University of California Press repackaging of the 1941 Federal Writers Project volume. In its …

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The Huntington’s renovated 1911 tea room reopens after a three-year closure
1 year, 7 months ago

The Huntington’s renovated 1911 tea room reopens after a three-year closure

LA Times  

If man caves existed in the early 20th century, then American railroad tycoon Henry Huntington had one of the finest. On Wednesday that very same building will reopen as the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens’ thoroughly renovated Rose Garden Tea Room. The Shakespeare Pavilion at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens’ new Rose Garden Tea Room. …

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How artist Mercedes Dorame shares pieces of her Tongva heritage across L.A.’s public landscapes
2 years, 5 months ago

How artist Mercedes Dorame shares pieces of her Tongva heritage across L.A.’s public landscapes

LA Times  

If land can be said to contain history, a repository of all that occurs on its surface, then the granite boulder I find myself scrambling over on a very warm Tuesday morning could be said to be one of its important archival artifacts. “The powdered pigments and cinnamon,” says Dennis Carr, the Huntington’s chief curator of American art, who organized …

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6 intriguing things to know about the stinkiest corpse flower in L.A. before it blooms
2 years, 6 months ago

6 intriguing things to know about the stinkiest corpse flower in L.A. before it blooms

LA Times  

What do gym socks, a portable potty and a dead rat have in common? “Kids love it — even adults love it,” said Brandon Tam, the Huntington’s botanical curator. “Ultimately, they all come in because they want to smell something really stinky.” Brandon Tam, the Huntington’s botanical curator, measures the plant from a ladder. “It takes a team of five …

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The Huntington Library has a history of inequity. Can it pivot toward inclusivity?
3 years, 8 months ago

The Huntington Library has a history of inequity. Can it pivot toward inclusivity?

LA Times  

Beneath every robber baron’s graceful mansion seems to lie a graveyard of questionable deeds. Christina Nielsen, director of the Huntington’s art museum, sits before “The Landmark,” a bronze sculpture by artist Enrique Martinez Celaya. “I remember having lunch with my dad, a Mexican immigrant with an eighth-grade education, at the Huntington,” recalls historian Natalia Molina, who is researching the Huntington’s …

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Revamped garden blooms in California
4 years ago

Revamped garden blooms in California

China Daily  

Liu Fang Yuan, also known as the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, in San Marino, Los Angeles County, California, United States, reopens to the public in October with 4.6 hectares of new landscape. Visitors immersed in Chinese art, literature Los Angeles native Randall Bartlett sat under the arched rooftop of a traditional Chinese scholar's studio. The setting was the revamped Liu …

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Revamped garden blooms in California
4 years ago

Revamped garden blooms in California

China Daily  

Liu Fang Yuan, also known as the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, in San Marino, Los Angeles County, California, United States, reopens to the public in October with 4.6 hectares of new landscape. Visitors immersed in Chinese art, literature Los Angeles native Randall Bartlett sat under the arched rooftop of a traditional Chinese scholar's studio. The setting was the revamped Liu …

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Revamped garden blooms in California
4 years ago

Revamped garden blooms in California

China Daily  

Liu Fang Yuan, also known as the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, in San Marino, Los Angeles County, California, United States, reopens to the public in October with 4.6 hectares of new landscape. Visitors immersed in Chinese art, literature Los Angeles native Randall Bartlett sat under the arched rooftop of a traditional Chinese scholar's studio. The setting was the revamped Liu …

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