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Times of Change

Tue., July 17, 2018 | Amy Miller
This month, Los Angeles Times employees decamp from their namesake building at the corner of First and Spring streets downtown. After 83 years of occupying the building, the Times is moving staff to a new home in El Segundo—leaving behind a monumental icon of the city's Art Deco period.
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Master Gardeners at the Ranch

Wed., July 11, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
The master gardeners who volunteer each Saturday at the Huntington Ranch Garden Open House are the perfect hosts for this one-of-a-kind garden experience...
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News Release - Karen R. Lawrence Named President of The Huntington

Thu., July 5, 2018
Karen R. Lawrence, former president of Sarah Lawrence College, has been named president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, The Huntington's Board of Trustees announced today, following an extensive international search.
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Fourth of July Fireworks

Tue., July 3, 2018 | Manuela Gomez Rhine
The offerings are explosive: "Balloon Rockets, Devil Bombs, and Barking Dog Cap Bombs, Floating Stars changing colors, making a most beautiful display in the air," reads a fireworks catalog entry. A promotional poster announces Sanderson & Lanergan, pyrotechnists to Boston, and promises a fireworks show, "[f]urnished as usual in the highest style of the art."
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The New Fellows

Wed., June 27, 2018
As one of the world's leading institutions for collections-based research, The Huntington has for almost a century provided essential support and a congenial environment for the conduct of scholarship in the humanities...
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Artists Research and Reflect

Wed., June 20, 2018 | Carribean Fragoza
Carolina Caycedo and Mario Ybarra Jr. begin their residencies at The Huntington by bringing distinct approaches to making new work inspired by the institution's library, art, and garden collections. Whether instinctive or methodical, intellectual or personal, both artists find ways to enter The Huntington and connect with larger historical narratives.
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News Release - Award-winning Playwright Stan Lai to Present New Site-specific Work at The Huntington

Wed., June 20, 2018
In a groundbreaking creative partnership, CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens have joined forces with the internationally acclaimed playwright Stan Lai
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Henry Moore on Paper

Wed., June 13, 2018 | Melinda McCurdy
Can a piece of sculpture and a print on paper have the same effect? The differences between them seem clear.