ARTS ALIVE LONG ISLAND CELEBRATING ARTS CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Monday, May 28, 2013 –Sunday, September 15, 2013

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum  a “sequel” to The Lyon, the Which, and the Warhol exhibition follows the format of highlighting photography from the Museum’s permanent collection by Danny Lyons and Andy Warhol and includes works in other media by Diane Arbus, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Maurer, and Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi. The exhibition themes focus on gender and identity.

On view daily, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM  (Summer Hours May 20 – September 3)  Monday – Saturday, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM  Sunday, Noon – 4:00 PM

For more information call 516-463-5672 (Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) or visit .

June 16 – September 1, 2013

Opening Reception: July 21,2013  from 1:00 – 4:00 PM

The is proud to present “NYFA ‘MARK’ Artists” on display at the Islip Art Museum.   NYFA ‘MARK’ Artists:   ‘MARK’ Alumni Exhibition is curated By Beth Giacummo.

This exhibition is a survey of works created by alumni of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) MARK program. ‘MARK’ provides artists in all disciplines with individualized attention on the professional and business side of their creative practice. The program is designed to specifically address the concerns of artists living outside of New York City while providing them with a new statewide network; over 350 artists have participated in the program since 2008.

The event is free and open to the public.

Museum Hours: Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 AM -4:00 PM,  Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00 – 4:00 PM.

June 29th-October 13th 2013
Admission: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children

Work by five contemporary artists is showcased in focused installations in all of the Second Floor Galleries. Featured are artists , , , Erik Parks and . The exhibition is organized for the museum’s Contemporary Collector Circle by Elaine Berger and Alison Wolfson.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to 12). Members are admitted free. Call (516) 484-9337 for current exhibitions, events, hours and directions or log onto .

June 29 through October 13, 2013
Admission:$10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children

(b.1927) is one of the most important American artists alive today. The exhibition includes landscapes and collages from early in Katz’s career and continues through the 1960s and beyond with his hallmark paintings — enormous, brilliantly-colored portraits of his family and friends. The exhibition draws on the Whitney’s large holdings and is augmented with works from NCMA’s own permanent collection and some on loan from other art institutions.

Nassau County Museum of Art is offering several programs in conjunction with this solo exhibition:

Alex Katz: What About Style?, a 56-minute video, is screening daily at 11 a.m., 12 p.m, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The film is free with museum admission.

Also free with admission are the daily 2 p.m. exhibition tours as well as lunchtime lectures on Katz’s work offered on July 25, August 22 and September 26.

On October 12, the influential art critic Bill Berkson offers insights on Katz’s painting. For details on these and other events, visit .

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12). Members are admitted free.

June 29 through October 13, 2013 Daily showings at 11AM,12PM, 1PM & 3PM
Free with admission

(b.1927) is one of the most important American artists alive today. For more than 50 years, painter Alex Katz has resisted trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant, and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel captures the elusive Katz working in his Maine studio and his Soho flat, laboring over a 32-foot painting called The Black Brook. Interviews, archival footage, images of his subjects, and a virtual tour of 20 Katz paintings are combined to convey his unique style of art. Free with museum admission, No reservations. First come, first seated.

Nassau County Museum of Art is offering several programs in conjunction with this solo exhibition:

Also free with admission are the daily 2 p.m. exhibition tours as well as lunchtime lectures on Katz’s work offered on July 25, August 22 and September 26.

On October 12, the influential art critic Bill Berkson offers insights on Katz’s painting. For details on these and other events, visit .

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12). Members are admitted free.

Now through December 29, 2013
Regular admission is $9 per person, $7 for seniors and $4 for students ages six to 17.

The in Stony Brook presents a new exhibition highlighting two of Long Island’s summer playgrounds. They are sun-drenched spectacles. Miles and miles of beaches and boardwalks jammed with smiling, tanned and half-dressed people of all ages. The mere mention of Coney Island or Jones Beach evokes summer itself.

Coney Island and Jones Beach: Empires by the Sea will take visitors on a fun-filled ride through the history of these two landmarks, exploring the changing, complicated relationship between New Yorkers and their favorite seaside playgrounds. The exhibition will include a dazzling array of objects (including historic beachwear and amusement park artifacts), rare photographs, paintings, prints and archival film clips.

Coney Island went from an unknown strip of sand to the world’s most famous seaside resort in the 19th century. People began going there shortly after a shell-crushed road connected it to the rest of Brooklyn in 1829. But it gradually became rowdy entertainment for the masses, home to three major amusement parks, and the birthplace of the roller coaster and the hot dog. By 1920, accessible by the subway, Coney Island was dubbed the “Nickel Empire.” But not everyone was charmed by the spectacle.

Jones Beach was different: “Flowers, lawns, shrubs greet you, instead of papers, lunch boxes and dirt. Nothing is crowded, the sidewalks are wide, the buildings are low and attractively designed. The beach is apparently endless.”

Master builder Robert Moses planned Jones Beach as an antidote to what he regarded as the excesses of Coney Island. In addition to forbidding carnival vendors and “honkey tonk,” Jones Beach employed uniformed attendants and enforced strict rules against undressing in cars and leaving litter on the boardwalk or beach. The entire park included beautifully-designed bathhouses and nautical-themed trash receptacles. By the mid-1930s, Jones Beach welcomed over 100,000 visitors on its busiest summer days.

The exhibition will explore these two famous spots not only in their heydays, but will also look at what has happened during their decline, resurrection, and redefinitions over the past several decades. Where some once thought the sun might be setting on these two historic beaches, millions still pack their bags every summer to go there and make new memories. The perfect summer exhibition, Coney Island and Jones Beach will give visitors a fun and energetic history of how two iconic coastal areas became lasting people’s playgrounds.

For more information on the exhibition and related programs, visit or call 631-751-0066.

August 17th-December 1st 2013
Museum admission: $6.00 Adults
$4.00 Seniors (62 years)
$4.00 Students (10 and over)
FREE Children (under 10)

This retrospective celebrates the career of , one of Long Island’s most prominent contemporary artists. For 50 years, Brodsky has created abstract works of lyrical beauty inspired by the Long Island landscape and his travels in the United States and abroad. His multi-layered paintings exude dynamic energy and reveal an elegant sensitivity to color rare among his contemporaries. The exhibition traces the artist’s evolution from early representational works that focus on architectonic city structures, through the minimalist landscapes executed during the artist’s early years on the Island, to the Abstract Expressionist works that manifest Brodsky’s deepest engagement with the painting process itself.

Stan Brodsky is Professor Emeritus at LIU Post and his work is included in many public and private collections. He will be honored at the Museum’s Celebrate Achievement Benefit on November 15, 2013 for his significant contributions to the arts on Long Island.Call 631.351.3250 or visit for more information.

August 17th-November 24th 2013
Museum admission: $6.00 Adults
$4.00 Seniors (62 years)
$4.00 Students (10 and over)
FREE Children (under 10)

This installation features more than two dozen works that have been acquired by the Museum since 2010, representing a broad range of style and subject matter. Highlights include a seminal early Montauk scene by the Hudson River School painter , as well as later Long Island landscapes by Max Weber, , and Darragh Park. Also on display are abstract works by Theodore Stamos, Nicolas Carone, and Stanley Twardowicz, as well as photographs by , , and Neil Scholl. Of special interest is a group of lithographs focusing on light and the geometry of architecture by the Cuban-American painter , and abstracted, textural landscapes by contemporary American painter Ben Frank Moss. Call 631.351.3250 or visit for more information.

August 17th 2013-April 20th 2014
Museum admission: $6.00 Adults
$4.00 Seniors (62 years)
$4.00 Students (10 and over)
FREE Children (under 10)

In conjunction with the Public Art Initiative Teen Poetry Project, Poetry for the HART, sponsored by the Town of Huntington, this exhibition showcases works with appeal to a wide range of aesthetic sensibilities. Brightly colored, energetic paintings by Stuart Davis, , , and Wayne Gonzales provide vibrant contrast to evocative landscapes by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jerome Blum, and Matthew Spender. Also on view are figure paintings and portraits by George Grosz, Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, and Florine Stettheimer.

Call 631.351.3250 or visit for more information.

May 27th – September 2nd 2013
Free- See details below

The Heckscher Museum of Art is again participating in the Blue Star Museums program, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 1,8 00 museums across America. From Memorial Day, May 27, through Labor Day, September 2, 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 military and five immediate family members (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard, and Reserve). Visit for more information.

Friday, September 6, 2013   4:00 pm – 8:30 pm – 7:00 pm Performance

Keep summer alive!  Join us for our last outdoor concert of the season. Back by popular demand, this energetic group is a nonstop explosion of classic rock ‘n’ roll music! Hit Squad is considered one of Long Island’s top bands playing covers and original music. This group has performed for the last four years at NYCB Theatre at Westbury Music Fair, as well as at The Paramount and Founder’s Room. Band members include current and former members of Queen, Meatloaf, Riot, Herman’s Hermits, and Tommy James and the Shondells.  In the event of inclement weather, there will be NO indoor performance.

Free

Summer Outdoor Concert Series:  Celebrate the summer at . Performances in July, August, and September will be held on the Museum’s terrace. Explore the exhibitions during extended viewing hours and enjoy outdoor musical performances. In the event of inclement weather, concerts will be held in the Museum.

 

 

 

 

Seniors who missed the opportunity for complimentary admission to the popular exhibition on display in Stony Brook, will have another chance on Tuesday, September 10 from 10 a.m. to noon as the Long Island Museum hosts Senior Tuesday.

Coney Island and Jones Beach: Empires by the Sea takes visitors on a fun-filled ride through the history of each of these two landmarks, exploring the changing, complicated relationship between New Yorkers and their favorite seaside playgrounds. The exhibition includes a dazzling array of objects (including historic beachwear and amusement park artifacts), rare photographs, paintings, prints and archival film clips.

One Tuesday each month, when the museum is normally closed to the public, seniors 62 and older enjoy a free, self-guided tour of a different exhibition. Senior Tuesdays are sponsored by Jefferson’s Ferry, Long Island’s premier retirement community. Located at 1200 Route 25A in Stony Brook, the Long Island Museum is a Smithsonian affiliate, dedicated to American history and art with a Long Island connection. Regular admission is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and $4 for students ages six to 17. For information about other exhibitions and programs please call 631-751-0066 or visit .

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 12:00PM-4:00PM
FREE

The Heckscher Museum is delighted to present this annual free community event for the whole family. Inspired by the Museum’s exhibitions, there will be an array of drawing, painting, and collage activities offered in the Musuem, on the terrace, and throughout Heckscher Park. A variety of drawing materials will be on hand or bring your own to capture the excitement of the day! Help build a collaborative sunflower garden and make your own. Try your hand at figure drawing from live models, create a watercolor painting, draw with charcoal or pastel in Heckscher Park, and much more!

Experience Live Art Fusion, which joins music and art for an extraordinary performance. Artists will be speed painting while listening to live bands performing in Heckscher Park. All in attendance are invited to watch the artwork unfold or create their own art in this fun, dynamic “fusion” of art and music.

Call 631.351.3250 or visit for more information.