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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 9, 2026

Sanford Biggers Mixes It Up

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, is presenting "Sanford Biggers: Drift," a solo exhibition showcasing the artist's multidisciplinary practice. The show features works such as "Unsui (Cloud Forest)" (2025), an illuminated cloud installation made from aluminum, acrylic, and LEDs, alongside his "Codex" series of antique quilts altered with spray paint and found objects. Biggers, who grew up in Los Angeles and was influenced by hip-hop and graffiti, draws on his time in Japan and Buddhist concepts like "unsui" (cloud water) to explore themes of drift, migration, and cultural mixing. The exhibition was co-curated by Corinne Erni, the museum's chief curator of art and education.

museum exhibitions schedule May 26, 2026

Art and Fashion at the Leiber Collection

The Leiber Collection and Sculpture Garden in Springs opens its season on Saturday with three new exhibitions: "Judith and Gerson Leiber: A Passion for Fashion," "Gerson Leiber: An Inexplicable Light," and "Garden of Friends: Ode to the Sea." The first exhibition pairs Judith Leiber's whimsical, meticulously crafted handbags with her husband Gerson Leiber's fashion paintings, highlighting a dialogue between fashion and fine art. The second focuses on Gerson Leiber's later abstract works, culminating in a triptych titled "An Inexplicable Light." The third, installed throughout the property, features 19 East End artists whose work responds to the ocean and local life.

museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2026

‘Drift’ Invites Reverie at the Parrish

Sanford Biggers's first major solo exhibition on the East End, "Drift," opens at the Parrish Art Museum on Sunday and runs through September 13. The show features new works and site-responsive installations, including the monumental "Unsui (Cloud Forest)" (2025), a series of illuminated cloud sculptures suspended from the museum's arched ceiling. Co-curated by Corinne Erni and Scout Hutchinson, the exhibition spans Biggers's multidisciplinary practice—painting, sculpture, video, performance, and textile works—drawing on influences from Buddhism to graffiti culture and Gee's Bend quilts. Highlights include examples from his "Codex" series, made from repurposed antique quilts with spray-painted cloud forms, and a new sand installation inspired by prayer rugs and Japanese Buddhist mandalas.

museum exhibitions schedule Jan 20, 2026

Portraiture and Design at Guild Hall

Guild Hall in East Hampton is opening two exhibitions on Sunday: “Jason Bard Yarmosky: Time Has Many Faces,” a decade-long series of meticulously rendered portraits focusing on the artist’s aging grandparents, and “Liberty Labs: A Decade of Design,” featuring furniture, lighting, and objects by 33 current and former members of the Liberty Labs Foundation design collective. The portraits blend 17th- and 18th-century painting techniques with contemporary, often playful imagery, while the design show highlights collaborative experimentation. Museum director Melanie Crader, who curated both shows, notes that the artists share Brooklyn bases and East End ties.

museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025

An Incomparable Art Exhibition

Lana Jokel, a documentary filmmaker known for 18 films about contemporary art, has put her personal art collection on view at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House in an exhibition titled “Echoes & Nostalgia.” The show features around 100 works from artists including Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and John Chamberlain, many of which were gifts from the artists themselves. Jokel’s collection reflects her deep personal relationships with these figures, such as Warhol paying her with a "Flowers" series work for co-editing his film "Heat" (1972), and Jasper Johns creating custom pieces for her. The exhibition also includes works by Sven Lukin, with whom she had a long-term relationship, and a portrait by Ed Ruscha made during their romantic partnership.

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