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Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2027 | Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”—commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.

May 25, 2024–May 25, 2029 | 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.

Explore acres of eye-catching camellias, flowering throughout the Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, and North Vista.

Marvel at the towering inflorescence of Agaves, now blooming throughout the Desert Garden. These North American native plants produce spectacular flower stalks up to 30 feet tall.

Enjoy a sea of Aloe flowers blooming now throughout the California Garden, Desert Garden, and Cycad Garden near The Huntington Art Gallery.

See these highly uncommon and spectacular, long-arching inflorescence blooms in deep jewel tones, flowering for a short time in the Desert Garden.

Explore a winding canopy of Wisteria blooming now in the Chinese Garden, Japanese Garden, Rose Garden, Shakespeare Garden, and Children's Garden.

Enjoy traditional Chinese music Wednesday afternoons in the Garden of Flowing Fragrance.

Join Maite Gomez-Rejón of ArtBites for an engaging conversation and hands-on culinary lesson tracing the history of the American appetizer.

Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respond to the cultural aftershocks of the birth of modern geology and paleontology, which instituted a major conceptual shift in understanding nature.