Enjoy art at a discount

Caltech and JPL personnel can receive a special discount at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Saturday and Sunday, February 28 and 29. Employees with photo ID and up to three guests will receive half-price adult admission and a 10 percent discount on all bookstore purchases.

Current exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design,” through April 4, and “The Noblest Conquest: The Sport of the Horse in Europe and America from the Edward Lasker Collection,” continuing until May 16.

“The Beauty of Life” showcases more than 200 works related to British artisan, writer, and socialist William Morris and his firm, Morris & Company, and is highlighted by a 15-foot, 10-panel stained-glass window from the demolished Unitarian Church in Lancashire, England, designed by Morris’s associate Edward Burne-Jones. The show celebrates Morris’s mastery and his vast influence on 19th-century design, and also pays tribute to his writings and political activities.

An exhibition of rare books, prints, periodicals, and artifacts traces the history of European and American horse racing and breeding in “The Noblest Conquest.” The show is drawn primarily from the Huntington’s Edward Lasker Collection, an outstanding library of equestrian material given to the institution by Lasker’s wife in 1999.

Weekend hours at the Huntington are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m; regular admission is $12.50 for adults, $10 for seniors, $8.50 for students ages 12 to 18, $5 for youth ages 5 to 11, and free for members and for children under 5. For more information, call (626) 405-2100 or visit www.huntington.org.
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