This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration. The sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasizes its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature May 25, 2024–May 25, 2029 Stroll […]
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens opened the Japanese Heritage Shoya House a resorted residential compound from 18th-century from rural Japan, on Oct. 21, 2023. The Japanese Heritage Shōya House is a 3,000-square-foot residence built around 1700, served as the center of village life in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture. The compound has been reconstructed […]
Yukio Lippit, professor of Japanese art and architecture at Harvard University, discusses how The Huntington’s Shōya House offers a unique opportunity to explore an abundance of ideas and elements about Japanese architecture as a whole. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens The East Asian Garden Studies The Japanese Shōya House: An Encyclopedia of […]
The Huntington Library presents online lecture “The Role of the Japanese Tea Hut in Understanding the Way of Tea” on Thursday, January 18, from 4:00 – 5:15 pm. Free and reservation required. Bruce Sosei Hamana, a tea ceremony expert with the Urasenke Tankokai Federation, will discuss the chashitsu—the traditional tearoom. He will explore how […]
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Viewing Stone Show Brody Botanical Center, Ahmanson Classroom Free with general admission The California Aiseki Kai presents its 34th annual show featuring outstanding examples of suiseki and other viewing stones. Practiced in Asia for centuries and gaining popularity around the world, the art of viewing stones invites contemplation […]
The Huntington Library Lecture Symbiotic Beauty: The Sustainable Wisdom of Samurai Residences Learn how samurai houses in the Edo-period offered a symbiotic linkage of house and garden. Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Education and Visitors Center, Rothenberg Hall & Livestream Free with Registration Azby Brown, a leading authority on Japanese architecture, design, and […]
SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will open a major new feature in its renowned Japanese Garden in the fall of 2023, when the reconstruction of a 320-year-old magistrate’s (shōya) house from Marugame, Japan, will be complete. Named the Japanese Heritage Shōya House, the 3,000-square-foot residence was built around 1700 and […]
A Garden of Words: The Calligraphy of Liu Fang Yuan Aug. 28, 2021–May 16, 2022 Chinese Garden, Studio for Lodging the Mind The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden Part 1: Aug. 28–Dec. 13, 2021 Part 2: Jan. 29–May 16, 2022 Celebrating the recent opening of the final phase of its Chinese Garden, The Huntington Library, […]
Weekly Cultural News is a substitute publication for monthly Cultural News Subscription for $36 per 4 months + Contents of Weekly Cultural News, September 06 -12, 2021 P01: Huntington Library opens inaugural calligraphy exhibition at new art gallery in Chinese Garden P02: Huntington Library’s calligraphy exhibition featuring five conventional script types P03: Huntington Library opens […]