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Three Ways of Looking at the Japanese Garden
When The Huntington’s Japanese Garden reopens to the public on April 11 after a year-long renovation, it will be an appropriate time to reflect on its 100-year history. Kendall H. Brown says that we...
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Lasting Impressions of the Japanese Garden
Many of the 20 million people who have visited the Japanese Garden since it opened to the public in 1928 have stepped onto the wisteria terrace for a first view of the garden and experienced a magical...
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Two Houses Shed Light on Traditional Japanese Architecture
When it comes to the history of traditional Japanese architecture in the United States, there are many stories to tell. Now The Huntington has a way of recounting at least two of them. One is how...
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Two Singular Men, One Berlin
Don Bachardy in 1991, posing in front of his portrait of novelist Christopher Isherwood (1983). Photo by Marilyn Sanders, reproduced by permission. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and...
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A Magic Brew?
Henry Fuseli’s The Three Witches, recently acquired by The Huntington, is currently on view on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery. It’s as if Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), the Anglo-Swiss...
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Remembering Gettysburg
Photographs like Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s On the Battlefield of Gettysburg, showing bloated dead bodies, made war painfully real for many Americans. (1863, printed ca. 1891) The Huntington Library, Art...
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A Toast to Vesalius
Visitors to the Library’s permanent exhibition “Beautiful Science” can see an original plate from Epitome, then touch the copy, imagining how medical students of the time peered into the body. As...
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Lincoln’s Signature Accomplishments
Scene in the House of Representatives on Jan. 31, 1865. From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Feb. 8, 1865. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. One hundred and fifty...
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What’s in Store?
The view as you enter the new Huntington Store. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. Anchoring the north section of the new Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center complex that opened in January is the...
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Buying a Turner
J.M.W. Turner, Neapolitan Fisher-girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight, ca. 1840, oil on canvas. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Interest in the 19th-century British...
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Fantasy Aloe Hybrids
Zimmerman’s kind of six-pack: half a dozen aloe hybrids. On the bottom left is a young Aloe ‘Gargoyle’; on the bottom right is Aloe ‘DZ’. She’s waiting for the others to develop before she decides...
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Open to Interpretation
In the past, sumptuous furnishings may have tempted visitors to touch. Now, thanks to interactive displays—such as this one on the Savonnerie carpets—visitors can. One of the first things visitors...
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A California Garden
The San Gabriel Mountains form a backdrop to the Celebration Garden, with the new Mapel Orientation Gallery on the left and new café on the right. When the Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center...
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Let’s Get Oriented
The new Mapel Orientation Gallery offers historic and behind-the-scenes information on The Huntington, as well as a variety of imaginative things to see, hear, and smell. Did you know that the...
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Shakespeare Takes the Stage
Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, known as the First Folio, published in London in 1623. The poem on the left is by Ben Jonson, Shakespeare’s contemporary and fellow playwright. The...
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Tough Love for Roses
Less water, more blooms? The Huntington’s Rose Garden is more beautiful than ever, thanks in part to the smoky-red ‘Hot Cocoa’ roses (seen in the foreground), a hybrid by rose curator Tom Carruth. When...
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Taking the Long View
During an initial scouting trip, photographer John C. Lewis looked for locations that would most accurately recreate the original composition of panoramic photos made a century before. What happens...
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Worth the Wait
As part of periodic maintenance, the tea garden’s machiai or waiting bench received new rice paper to line its walls. Kyoto landscape designer Takuhiro Yamada consults his notes. Photo by Andrew...
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Small Hands at Work
Instructor Emily Earhart leads children through The Huntington’s historic Valencia orange groves to pick fruit. Photo by Deborah Miller. Huntington Explorers summer camp recently finished its 14th year...
View ArticleTurbulent End to Civil War
By the spring of 1865, when surrenders at Appomattox, Durham Station, and elsewhere had finally delivered an end to four years of bloody battle, the American Civil War had killed a staggering 750,000...
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