Director of the Art Museum @TheHuntington (still not a Danish race car driver)
San Marino, CA
Joined December 2011
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Game on! In honor of #superbowl LVI, @thehuntingtonlibrary and @cincyartmuseum have bet on a loan of art by Cincinnati native Robert Henri. Hey #cameronkitchin - are you feeling lucky? I am!….Go @la.rams.nfl ! @obj #roberthenri
Congrats to LACMA on the opening of Black American Portraits! And thanks @KnightLAT for the kind shout out about @TheHuntington's "marvelous" new @kehindewileyart painting:
latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Thanks for noticing @LACMonFire what we're up to @TheHuntington ! "building an American collection that looks more like America" !
Thanks, @NPR and to the inimitable #susanstamberg for your great story this morning! #blueboy #kehindewiley
So excited about this new partnership between @TheHuntington and #theahmansonfoundation, and thrilled to now be the steward of one Thomas Cole’s greatest works. #hudsonriver #williamseward
The Huntington is thrilled to announce a new major art acquisitions partnership with The Ahmanson Foundation. 🖼️ 🎉 The program will launch with the acquisition of this monumental 19th-century painting, "Portage Falls on the Genesee" by Thomas Cole. bit.ly/3AoNHCu
Great to see @TheHuntington #blueboy as featured masterpiece in last weekend’s @WSJ wsj.com/articles/the-blue-bo…
Kehinde Wiley's "A Portrait of a Young Gentleman" revealed at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens artdaily.com/news/139913/Keh…
California Love for “A Portrait of a Young Gentleman” by Kehinde Wiley a... youtu.be/AN7sDcs_i7k via @YouTube Thanks @DavidTuason for sharing this response to our newest acquisition!
So thrilled the news is out! Thanks, @kehindewileyart for the magnificent new addition to our collection (on view to public October 2) and thanks, #sarahbahr @nytimes for spreading the word! nytimes.com/2021/09/09/arts/…
#SundayMorning #happyplace @Angeles_NF #dawnminetrail thanks to all the incredible forestry staff and volunteers who make this possible!
Thanks @KnightLAT ! In fact, the @TheHuntington show of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings is still up and we hope to share it with visitors again soon—once it’s safe for museums galleries to reopen.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye show @TheHuntington , adjacent to the Grand Manner portrait gallery (Blue Boy et al) was likewise marvelous theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Thanks, @KnightLAT for your take on this year’s version of #madeinla Can’t wait to share it with visitors @TheHuntington and @hammer_museum — hopefully soon! Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
“History often teaches us to embrace ambiguity, to understand there aren’t simple answers to complex questions, and Americans tend to like simple answers to complex questions.”
Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’ nytimes.com/2020/07/02/busin…
“A once in a century crisis” requires thinking and doing differently. Bravo @FordFoundation ! How we help nonprofits survive COVID-19: Darren Walker calls on funders to reimagine philanthropy fordfoundation.org/ideas/equ…
Foraging virtually with #sibylkempson thanks to @NewYorker article, and remembering her libretto for @davidlangmusic operas about @gardnermuseum tapestries...google.com/amp/s/www.newyork…
Hey @campbell_c_m so great to see that #gainsborough anew through your eyes in this beautiful @nytimes musing. #silverlinings nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
“The best exhibitions tell strong human stories” amen! #natsilver and @elizabethreluga and @michellegrohe thank you for sharing this story with the world. You rock.
Hey @KnightLAT I never knew our @TheHuntington Reynolds of Sarah Siddons was the inspiration for the trophy! Thanks for sharing that.
Nice piece. And that golden Sarah Siddons trophy clutched by Eve Harrington is based on the great portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds @TheHuntington nytimes.com/2020/04/21/theat…
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The first episode of Cocktails with a Curator joins Chief Curator Xavier S. Solomon, who (remotely) is discussing Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert.
Tune in now: youtu.be/YD8KxM1Ia9c
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Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in the Desert, ca. 1476–78. Oil on panel #FrickCollection
