In the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens' art collection, Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy," far right, is a visitor favorite. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) The Huntington ...

11:10 a.m. Dec. 15, 2022: An earlier version of this article referenced the 1969 Watts Rebellion. The uprising took place in 1965. Also, Stephen M. Tomaske was a librarian at Cal State L.A., not UCLA, ...

Donors and members of the media were given a sneak preview of makeover underway at the The Huntington Library, Arts Collection and Botanical Gardens’s Chinese Garden. Construction on this phase began ...

Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy,” Thomas Lawrence’s “Pinkie,” landscapes by Constable and Turner: British art from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries will always be a hallmark of the Huntington Library, Art ...

Even a born mogul with an expansive view of a future Southern California such as Henry Huntington could never have imagined what opening his library and galleries to the public would look like, 100 ...

So it seems that railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella, were basically hoarders. And I mean that in the best sense of the word. Way back in the day — during the so-called Gilded ...

In her final years, author Eve Babitz was rediscovered as an essential Los Angeles literary voice, fluent in the ways of high art and rock & roll, and as a hometown rival to Joan Didion. Lesser known ...

Thomas Pynchon, the famously reclusive postmodern novelist known for intricate, cacophonous “Great American” novels, has decided on the institution that will house his papers and make his life known ...