The Heckscher Museum of Art May Programs and Exhibitions

SENIOR SECOND WEDNESDAY

1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Programs begin at 1:45 pm

Free Museum Admission for Seniors (62+)

Half-Price Museum Admission for General Public

Groups are welcome 

 

Docent Tour of Rhythm & Repetition in 20^th-Century Art

Wednesday, May 14

 Gallery Talk: Muybridge Revisited in the 21^st Century

Thursday, May 15

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Members Free, Non-Members $7

Join LIU Post Professor Daniel Mirer as he explores the experimental photography of Eadweard Muybridge. Mirer will discuss Muybridge as a source of inspiration for his own artwork, as well as the work of many other contemporary artists.

Registration is recommended.

 

SPECIAL COMMUNITY EVENT 

La Nuit des Musées…The Night of Museums

Saturday, May 17

6:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Free Museum Admission

Have you ever wondered if the paintings come alive after the Museum closes?  Art lovers of all ages are invited to find out during the celebration of this international Night of Museums, an evening where museums around the world are open late free of charge. Musical performances, movie screening, poetry reading, family-friendly art activities will fill the Museum’s galleries, along with a lively dance performance by students from Walt Whitman High School’s Advanced Modern Dance Program.  Visit www.heckscher.org for details. 

 

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Heckscher Family Hour

Sunday, May 18

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Museum Admission (children free) + $5 activity fee per child

For families with children ages 4 – 8 years

Join museum educator Tami Wood for a family-friendly tour of the Museum’s Rhythm & Repetition exhibition. Families experience the exhibition through close looking, lively conversation, and hands-on gallery projects.

Registration is recommended. Space is limited.

 

Celebrating Family

May 11 and June 15

In recognition of Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11, and Father’s Day, Sunday, June 15, parents and grandparents are invited to visit the Museum admission free on “their” special day. 

 

Sharing the Pride

Blue Star Museums Program

The Heckscher Museum of Art is again participating in the Blue Star Museums program, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 2,000 museums across America. From Memorial Day, May 26, through Labor Day, September 1, free Museum admission is available to any bearer of a Geneva Convention Common Access Card (CAC), a DD Form 1173, or a DD Form 1173-1, which includes active duty, National Guard, and Reserve military personnel or veteran and their families. 

 

EXHIBITIONS AT THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART 

Rhythm & Repetition in 20^th-Century Art

May 3 – August 10

Rhythm & Repetition focuses on artists who use repeated shapes as a method to organize their compositions.  Depicting natural, man-made, or purely abstract forms, these artists reveal the search for order that underlies the human experience.  Drawn entirely from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, this exhibition features work by Berenice Abbott, Richard Anuskiewicz, Oscar Bluemner, Arthur Dove, Childe Hassam, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Richenburg, Emilio Sanchez, and Friedrich Stowasser (Friedensreich Hundertwasser), among others.

This exhibition is sponsored in part with generous support from the Hargraves Family through the Nadon Trust.

Exposed: Eadweard Muybridge and the Study of Motion

May 3 – August 3

Credited as the “father of the motion picture,” Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the study of human and animal motion in time-lapse photography that documented the dynamics of ordinary, everyday movement.  Under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge produced more than 100,000 photographs, publishing 20,000 of them in his eleven-volume Animal Locomotion (1887).  His work caused a sensation in artistic and scientific circles, helping spur the development of modern art and contributing to the science of biomechanics.  This exhibition features iconic Muybridge studies of horses and zoo animals, men engaged in various athletic pursuits, and women in domestic activities. 

Picture Perfect: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Ongoing

This exhibition showcases works with appeal to a wide range of aesthetic sensibilities.  Brightly colored, energetic paintings by Stuart Davis, George D. Green, Richard Hennessy, and Wayne Gonzales provide vibrant contrast to evocative landscapes by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jerome Blum, and Matthew Spender.  Also on view are figure paintings by George Grosz and Florine Stettheimer, as well as the oldest painting in the Museum’s collection, Lucas Cranach’s Virgin, Child, St. John the Baptist and Angels, which has been recently conserved, revealing subtle coloring and detail not previously perceptible. 

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 

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.