The Heckscher Museum of Art Upcoming Events

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. 

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.

 

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.

           

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 

Trick or Treat at the Museum

Saturday, October 31

11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Free Museum Admission for Children in Costume and Their Families

Children who visit the Museum in costume on Halloween will enjoy a festive hands-on art activity, spooky props for posing in the selfie station, and a special “treat.”

 

Sharing the Pride

Blue Star Museums Program

The Museum is proud to offer free admission to active military personnel, veterans, and family throughout the year.  In addition, the Museum is pleased to participate in the Blue Star Museums program which is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America, to offer free Museum admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, through Labor Day, September 7.

 

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.

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

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.

 

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) since 1972.