Get ready to party. Starting Sept. 5, we'll be launching a yearlong series of centennial festivities in honor of our 100th birthday. Here are few of the ways we’ll be celebrating, in no particular order:
For the first time in 50 YEARS, we’ll have a float in the 2020 Rose Parade.
Our massive exhibition highlighting 1919, the year of our founding, opens Sept. 21, 2019. “Nineteen Nineteen” will feature around 275 objects from The Huntington’s holdings, each created, edited, acquired, or published in the year 1919.
A new rose has been created especially for our centennial, named “Huntington’s 100th.’ The bloom produces pink then yellow petals and smells amazing (like fruity lemon blossoms).
Exhibition “Utopia” [working title] will open Nov. 10, in collaboration with Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop (part of The Huntington's contemporary arts initiative /five.) See new works by artists Nina Katchadourian, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Rosten Woo and writers Dana Johnson and Robin Coste Lewis, Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. Each participant is investigating ideas of perfection and utopia using Thomas More's satirical work Utopia (1516) as a foundational text and starting point.
A program part of the President’s Series will feature actors from the Independent Shakespeare Co. of Los Angeles reading and comparing portions of the so-called “bad quarto” of Hamlet with the version audiences are familiar with. Zachary Lesser, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, will provide commentary.
Launching Sept. 6, we’ll be giving away 100 Memberships to the first 100 Los Angeles County college students who apply (!!!!!!!). Students may enter by sending an email to [email protected] on or after Sept. 6, 2019.
The Chinese Garden expansion, featuring a new art gallery, restaurant, and more, will reopen in spring 2020. GET READY.
For more upcoming centennial programs, events, exhibits, and activities, go here
images:
The Huntington's 1969 Rose Parade® float, sponsored by the city of San Marino, Calif. The Huntington.
Cover of Nineteen Nineteen (2019) catalog by James Glisson and Jennifer Watts; Portrait of Henry E. Huntington on Loggia of San Marino Residence, April 1919. The Huntington.
‘Huntington's Hundredth' commemorative rose. Photo courtesy of Weeks Roses.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Robin Coste Lewis, Nina Katchadourian, Dana Johnson, and Rosten Woo. Photo: Kate Lain
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet (1603). The Huntington.
Visitors in the Chinese Garden at The Huntington. Photo by Piper Ferguson.
Artist rendering of the penjing garden, one of the new features being built for the final phase of the Chinese Garden’s construction. The Huntington.
