The Heckscher Museum of Art Exhibitions and Programs

FIRST FRIDAY 

Extended Hours 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Performance 7:00 pm

Free Museum Admission

Celebrate First Friday at The Heckscher Museum of Art.  Explore the Museum’s exhibitions during extended viewing hours and enjoy unique musical performances inspired by artwork on view. 

Mind Open Band

Friday, August 1

Artist George D. Green’s Minding Dog Rag on view in the Museum’s Picture Perfect exhibition provides the backdrop for a colorful performance by the Mind Open Band.  Musicians Chris Covais (vibes), Andrew Ahr (guitar), Hugo Lopez (drums), and Chris Elsner (bass) combine jazz, rock, Latin, funk, and a handful of other musical styles with creativity and spontaneity. 

Tony Romano, Jazz Guitar

Michel Gentile, Flute

Friday, September 5

Individually, guitarist Tony Romano and flutist Michel Gentile have performed throughout the world and recorded with a vast array of prominent artists, such as Randy Brecker, Dave Valentine, and Stanley Jordan, to name but a few. Together, they have developed a style of playing that is truly personal in its approach and rich with interaction and nuance. Inspired by the Museum’s Long Island Biennial exhibition, their program will feature new original compositions, as well as Brazilian and jazz repertoire. 

First Friday is generously sponsored by TD Bank, through the TD Charitable Foundation.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Heckscher Family Hour

Sunday, September 14

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Members Free, Non-Members 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 Long Island Biennial exhibition. Families experience the exhibition through close looking, lively conversation, and hands-on gallery projects.

Registration is recommended. Space is limited. 

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 2,100 museums across America. 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

Through 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

Through 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

Through August 10

This exhibition showcases art created in a wide range of aesthetic sensibilities, including abstract paintings by Stuart Davis, Wayne Gonzales, George D. Green, Richard Hennessy, and Matthew Spender and representational works by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jerome Blum, and Florine Stettheimer.  Also on view is the oldest painting in the Museum’s collection, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Virgin, Child, St. John the Baptist and Angels, which has been recently conserved through the Museum’s Adopt a Work of Art Program. 

Long Island Biennial

August 16 – 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.