The Heckscher Museum of Art November & December 2014 Exhibitions and Programs

SENIOR SECOND WEDNESDAY

Holiday Midday Music & Tea at Three

Wednesday, December 10

1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Program begins at 1:45 pm

Free Museum Admission for Seniors (62+)

Half-Price Museum Admission for General Public

Groups welcome

Share some holiday cheer with a performance by the Five Towns College Classical Guitar Ensemble followed by a festive cookie and tea reception featuring teas from Huntington’s Sip Tea Lounge. 

HECKSCHER HOLIDAYS
Friday, December 12

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Members Free, Non-Members Free with Admission  

Celebrate the spirit of the holiday season at the Museum! Enjoy sweet treats, light bites and festive beverages, view the current exhibitions, and listen to the Five Towns College Vocal Jazz Ensemble perform joyful holiday selections, traditional favorites, and tuneful pop songs.

Heckscher Helps the Hungry­

Holiday Food Drive       

The Museum is pleased to partner with Long Island Cares Inc., The Harry Chapin Food Bank, in support of those in need. Help us collect food for people and pets in our community.  Bring a non-perishable donation to the Museum now through December 31, 2014, and receive free admission as a special thank you.

 

EXHIBITIONS AT THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART 

Long Island Biennial

Through November 30

The Long Island Biennial is a juried exhibition that offers Long Island’s contemporary artists an opportunity to share their work with a broad public, deepening the connections among artists and between artists and the communities where they live.  Selected by jurors Dan Christoffel, Artist-in-Residence, Adjunct Professor, LIU Post; Renato Danese, Danese Corey, New York; and Helen A. Harrison, Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, this exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media work, and works on paper.

This exhibition is sponsored in part by Suffolk County. 

Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography

December 6 – March 15, 2015

Today, photographs are ubiquitous and often accepted as straight-forward documents of the observed world.  Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography focuses on 20^th- and 21^st-century artists who have pushed the boundaries of photography in myriad ways.  From photograms, combination printing, solarized images, and chemical experiments of the early 20^th century through contemporary practice in a broad range of approaches, including untraditional processes and digital techniques, this exhibition examines images that have a complex relationship to objective reality.  Featured artists include Harry Callahan, Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Abelardo Morell, Lucas Samaras, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edmund Teske, Jerry Uelsmann, and many others.

Modern Alchemy is sponsored in part by Advantage Title and through generous support from Frank Lourenso & Gary Stevens – Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

This exhibition is also sponsored in part through generous support from The John Hahn Foundation.

Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara: A Study in Landscape Painting

December 6 – April 12, 2015 (Closed March 9 – 20)

Among America’s most iconic natural sites, Niagara Falls has been a popular tourist destination since the early 19^th century.  Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara depicts the attraction as it appeared at mid-century, with charming genre elements set against the grand landscape.  Featuring European and American works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, this exhibition examines the painting within a broader landscape tradition, including intimate views of East Coast locales and dramatic scenes of the American West by Hudson River School artists, as well as images of man’s multifaceted relationship to water.

 Power, Politics & War: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Ongoing

To highlight the significance of George Grosz’s Eclipse of the Sun as a critique of the corrupt Weimar government in 1920s Berlin, this exhibition places the painting in the context of other works from the Permanent Collection that depict themes of power, politics, and military aggression.  Featured works include paintings about the American Revolution and the birth of America by Alonzo Chappel, the Franco-Prussian War by Etienne Berne-Bellecour, and photographs from World War II by the Russian photographer Mark Markov-Grinberg.  This close look at Eclipse of the Sun is occasioned by its inclusion in the upcoming exhibition New Realities and Neue Sachlichkeit: Modern German Art during the Weimar Republic, to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in late 2015. 

Editor’s Note:

The Heckscher Museum of Art, founded in 1920 by August Heckscher, serves the people of the Town of Huntington and surrounding communities. Through exhibitions of its permanent and loan collections of art and related programs, it seeks to provide inspiring and transformative educational experiences to encourage a broader understanding of our past and present and enrich the quality of life of the individuals it serves. The Museum’s Permanent Collection contains more than 2,200 works from the early 16^th century to present. For information about The Heckscher Museum of Art, visit www.heckscher.org. 

Museum Hours

Wednesday – Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Saturday and Sunday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

First Friday FREE Museum Admission

5:00 pm – 8:30 pm Extended Viewing Hours

7:00 pm Performance

Huntington Township Residents admitted FREE Wednesday after 2:00 pm and Saturday before 1:00 pm.  Proof of residency required. 

Free Museum Admission for Active Military Personnel and Veterans
Available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention Common Access Card (CAC), a DD Form 1173, a DD Form 1173-1, a Veteran’s DD-214, or a Veteran ID card and a driver’s license.  Includes active duty, National Guard, and Reserve military personnel and their families.