Lumen Martin Winter:An Artist Rediscovered
Winter created boldly colorful and energetically expressive projects, exhibiting a wide array of influences.
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Midnight Rum:Long Island and Prohibition
Large breweries in Brooklyn switched to making “near beer.”
Edible Eden:The Art of Long Island’s Forests, Fields and Waters
Artists who depicted Long Island in the nineteenth century continually focused on the island as an edible Eden: its carefully tended fields, its bountiful orchards, its healthy livestock, and its diverse wildlife both in the forest and nearby coast wa …
Brilliant Partners:Judith Leiber’s Handbags & the Art of Gerson Leiber
Gerson Leiber, A Passionate Appeal to the Viewer, 2015. Oil & graphite on linen. This beautiful and important exhibition focuses on the creative productivity and shared aesthetics of a unique East End Long Island couple who have achieved high level …
Holiday Celebration:
LIM rings in the holiday season with our annual Holiday Celebration exhibition. The Visitors Center is transformed into a magical winter wonderland with an enchanting display of original artwork by Long Island artists and artisans, unique holiday item …
I’ve Got the Music in Me:Juried Art Exhibition
Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s juried art competition. All 59 final entries are on display in the Visitors Center through October 23.
LIMarts:Inspired By…
Artistic inspiration can come from a variety of experiences: a person, a place, an object, a dream…anything. Come see what inspires our LIMarts members and take part in a unique opportunity to support the Long Island visual artists and artisans com …
Drawn from Life:Objects and Stories from William Sidney Mount’s Paintings
Most of what Mount captured on canvas with his brushes and paints is gone; only a handful of the exact objects he used for reference survive, and Long Island’s rural culture and environment changed drastically in the century following his death in 1868.
Long Island in the Sixties:
Before serious demographic shifts and culture wars directed the national spotlight away from this region, Nassau-Suffolk gripped its position as the most prosperous area in the United States in the early 1960s, as the white ethnic middle class continue …
Common Ground:The Music Festival Experience
Sweaty and loud, familiar yet exotic, muddy and exuberant–an organized chaos of discovery and adventure. That is the music festival experience. But why do we gather in fields to hear music?