Walt Whitman’s Arcadia: Long Island Through the Eyes of a Poet & Painters February 15 through September 2, 2019 Walt Whitman’s writing reveled in a 19th century America that swept far past, in place and reference, the Long Island region tha …
Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island February 15 through May 27, 2019 In 1626 Dutch merchants brought the first group of enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam. When the English took control of the colony in 1664 they made New Yor …
Shaping Silver is an exhibition highlighting a small group of exceptional contemporary artists in New York and Long Island working in silver. Created alongside a companion exhibition about colonial American silversmith Elias Pelletreau, these artists d …
Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. This will be the first mu …
Prolific. Brash. Strategically brilliant. One of the most controversial figures in Long Island history. Builder Robert Moses (1888-1981) helped determine the environments in which we continue to live. The Land of Moses: Robert Moses and Modern Long Isl …
In 1957, at a small printmaking workshop based inside a cottage in West Islip, Long Island, artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002) and poet Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) began their famed lithographic project Stones, a groundbreaking but playfully approachable con …
The Long Island Museum is honored to present Artistic Visions, a continuation of the Slide Slam Series collaboration with the Islip Art Museum and RIPE Art Gallery. The goal of the collaboration was to bring together the geographically diverse arts com …
It’s time again for our annual juried art exhibition. You might be a world traveler or you might just be a Walter Mitty dreamer. Either way, don’t miss this beautiful display of original artwork from artists all across the country, showing their own …
William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) formed an organic and everlasting bridge between his two chief passions in life: art and music. A new exhibition, Perfect Harmony, re-explores the confluence of Mount’s music and art through nearly 25 oil paintings, pen …
This exhibition, the first museum show of Peterson’s art in forty-five years, offers a survey of the wide range of subjects Peterson produced and the styles in which she worked. Peterson (1876-1965) recorded her travels abroad, first as a student to Lo …