22 essential works of art at the Huntington and the surprising stories behind them

For more than 30 years after opening, the Huntington held the best art collection in the L.A. suburbs. With new additions, ...
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A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Exhibition Highlights the Strangeness and Luminosity of His Paintings

There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in ...
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In ‘Fun Home,’ art mediates the unraveling of a family mystery

In a unique interpretation of a Broadway classic, TAPS reframes our relationships with family and our past selves, Xu writes.
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Patrick Henry in the House of Burgesses of Virginia, delivering his Celebrated Speech against the Stamp Act, (painting)

Painted by P.F. Rothermel, at the Price of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, as the first prize, for the year 1852, for the members of the Art Union of Philadelphia. DESCRIPTION OF THE PICTURE. The picture ...
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George Henry Mason (1770-1851) Eleven Plates from the 1804 series 'the Costumes of China', after the paintings of the Guangzhou artist Puqua (act. 1780-1810)

32.5 x 23.5 cm. (12.8 x 9.3 in.) ...