The Heckscher Museum of Art November through December 2015 and January 2016 Exhibitions and Programs

SPECIAL EVENT

Celebrate Achievement Benefit

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Huntington Country Club

 

Honoring

Robin Hadley and the memory of John Hadley, Philanthropists

Sandra Benny and Richard Vaux, Artists

Join us for a festive evening that includes a tribute to our honorees, a cocktail reception with the debut of a signature cocktail by the noted New York mixologist Allen Katz, and a silent auction with fabulous original works of art that are waiting to find a place in your home. For sponsorship opportunities and ticket information, contact Director of Development Deborah Johnson at 631.351.3006 or Johnson@Heckscher.org.

 

PROGRAMS

 FIRST FRIDAY

5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Performance 7:00 pm

Free Museum Admission

Five Towns College Ensembles

Friday, November 6

Students in the Five Towns College Music Program will fill the galleries with a variety of musical styles.

 First Friday is not scheduled for December.

 

SENIOR SECOND WEDNESDAY

 Holiday Midday Music & Tea at Three

Wednesday, December 9

 

EXPLORING ART…MAKING MEMORIES

Monday, December 14

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Members $8, Non-Members $10, Care Partners Free

With the understanding that artistic experiences stimulate new pathways of learning, expression, and memories, the Museum is offering a unique program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. Specially trained professionals will lead an interactive tour of select works and encourage group discussion. Light refreshments will be served.  Registration is required.  Space is limited.

 

Docent Tour of You Go Girl!

Wednesday, January 13

EXHIBITIONS AT THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART

Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection

Through November 29

The 20th century witnessed an explosion in printmaking as new processes were developed, print studios became established, and artists responded to the visual appeal of graphic design.  This Permanent Collection exhibition features a selection of landscape, figurative, and abstract work produced using a wide range of traditional and modern processes.  Featured artists include

Romare Bearden, John Steuart Curry, Stuart Davis, Red Grooms, Risaburo Kimura, Robert Kipniss, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Emilio Sanchez, Tom Wesselman, and many others.

Graphic Appeal is sponsored in part by Suffolk County.

 

James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints

Through November 22

In the 1970s, James Rosenquist created a series of large lithographs that are characterized by their horizontal, tripartite compositions.  Constructed of fragmented and juxtaposed images depicting various brightly colored icons, including tire tracks, stairs, nails, stars, orbits, and the American flag, these prints reference many of Rosenquist’s persistent themes—communication, space exploration, his 1971 car crash—conveying complex messages about our culture, science and technology, and the artist’s social and political concerns.

James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints is sponsored in part by Suffolk County.

 

Street Life: Private Moments/Public Record

Ongoing

The urban experience is an ever-changing tableau of daily activity.  For young and old, work, relaxation, and play unfold on the city streets, revealing an anonymous humanity engaged in endeavors familiar to all.  Selected from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, this exhibition is a portrait of New York City—its work-a-day life, shopping avenues, and iconic transportation system.  Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, N. Jay Jaffee, Martin Lewis, John Sloan, Garry Winogrand, and others.

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

 You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists

December 5 – April 3, 2016

This Permanent Collection exhibition highlights 50 women artists from the 19^th century through today.  Working in representational and abstract styles, and in varied artistic modes, including painting, sculpture, prints, mixed media, and photography, these artists express a wide range of personal and aesthetic concerns.  Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, Elaine de Kooning, Dorothy Dehner, Audrey Flack, Jane Hammond, Mary Nimmo Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Betty Parsons, Miriam Schapiro, Esphyr Slobodkina, Emma Stebbins, Jane Wilson, and others.

 

Members Opening Reception and Heckscher Holidays Event

Saturday, December 12

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

 

You Go Girl! and Men at Work are sponsored in part by Frank Lourenso & Gary Stevens – Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

 Men at Work

December 5 – March 27, 2016

 This Permanent Collection exhibition features works that reveal the many facets of human endeavor.  Men of thought, laborers, entertainers, and men of action represent the breadth of human experience and the significant role of disparate activities in man’s history.  In paintings, sculpture, and photographs, artists have depicted intellectuals, sailors, farmers, miners, and soldiers, capturing aspects of their emotional life as well as their physical labor.  William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, George Grosz, John Rogers, Emma Stebbins, and John Sloan are among the featured artists.

 

SPECIAL PROGRAM

Champion Women

Friday, January 8

7:00 pm

Lesley Goshko and Michele Carlo are two of New York’s finest, and funniest, storytellers. Spend an hour with them as they share stories of some of their most excellent champion moments. Open mic afterwards—bring a four-minute story to share. Curated by Robin Bady.

A Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion and contributing blogger for the Huffington Post, Lesley Goshko’s stories and comedy writing have been featured on Sirius XM, WNYC, New York Metro “Funny Page,” and more. Her cabaret show “An Old-Fashioned Piano Party with Leslie Goshko” is heralded as a Time Out New York “Critic’s Pick.”

Michele Carlo, a native New Yorker, a Nuyorican, and an author/storyteller/performer, has appeared across the U.S., including The Moth’s GrandSlam and Mainstage in NYC and on NPR with Latino USA.  Her debut book, the acclaimed memoir Fish Out of Agua: My Life On Neither Side of The (Subway) Tracks, was published by Citadel/Kensington 2010.

 

ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The Heckscher Museum of Art

Annual Meeting

Monday, January 25

7:30 pm

In the Museum Galleries

RSVP 631.351.3250

 

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, the Museum seeks to provide inspiring and transformative educational experiences to encourage a broader understanding of our past and present to enrich

the quality of life of the individuals it serves. The Museum’s Permanent Collection contains more than 2,500 works from 16^th– to 21^st-century European and American painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. 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.

 

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