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Four exceptional collections have joined The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens through the generosity of the Library Collectors’ Council, a group of supporters who help fund the purchase of new items for the institution’s archives.

The original 1911 building has been restored and a new outdoor pavilion opens onto the Shakespeare Garden. Press Preview on April 24. Dining reservations can be made beginning May 10.

Five works by Nigerian-born, Los Angeles–based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby are spotlighted in a series curated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and each artist.

The Huntington’s “Objects, Pathways, and Afterlives: Tracing Material Cultures in Early America” conference brings together scholars and practitioners to reflect on the historical and present-day meanings of tangible materials.

Stephen Blackmore, renowned botanist and chair of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, emphasizes the pivotal role of plants and botanical gardens in addressing the world's environmental challenges, offering practical solutions and highlighting the significant contributions of institutions like The Huntington.

One of the most powerful women of Tudor and Stuart England, Alice Spencer rose to become the matriarch of one of the most prominent families in British history. The story of her ascent is the subject of “A Woman of Influence,” the first book by The Huntington’s Vanessa Wilkie.

R. Isabela Morales, the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize winner, discusses the significance of writing family history, the challenges of tracing the lives of enslaved people, and the incredible cache of unpublished letters and legal documents that forms the archival core of her book “Happy Dreams of Liberty.”

Andrés Reséndez, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, discusses how America and China have gone from enthusiastic trading partners to strategic rivals in only a decade, the latest twist in a much deeper history spanning half a millennium.