11:10 a.m. Dec. 15, 2022: An earlier version of this article referenced the 1969 Watts Rebellion. The uprising took place in 1965. Also, Stephen M. Tomaske was a librarian at Cal State L.A., not UCLA, ...

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will become the permanent home of the L.A. Louver Archive & Library, a landmark collection documenting more than 50 years of contemporary art ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The archives of Thomas Pynchon, including correspondence, handwritten notes and the typescripts for such classic novels as “V.” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” have been acquired by the ...

The dream of a transcontinental railroad grabbed the nation’s attention and imagination, both of which became focused on the American West. In January of 1845, New York merchant Asa Whitney proposed ...

Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy,” Thomas Lawrence’s “Pinkie,” landscapes by Constable and Turner: British art from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries will always be a hallmark of the Huntington Library, Art ...

Even a born mogul with an expansive view of a future Southern California such as Henry Huntington could never have imagined what opening his library and galleries to the public would look like, 100 ...

The archive of Eve Babitz, the late Los Angeles author, has found a home. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired a collection of art, manuscripts, journals, photographs ...

So it seems that railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella, were basically hoarders. And I mean that in the best sense of the word. Way back in the day — during the so-called Gilded ...

Imagine roses meeting your eye in every direction—thousands upon thousands of them, cascading in blush pinks, magentas, butter yellows, lilacs, and scarlets, draping over pergolas, winding around ...

Two corpse flowers are expected to bloom this week at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Stinkie grew 2.5 inches Sunday to 76.5 inches, and Green Boy 1.5 ...

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and 130 acres of botanical gardens had more than a million visitors to the San Marino destination in 2023, and folks keep visiting. However, some took more than just ...