As part of its 90th Anniversary Celebration, The Heckscher Museum of Art is presenting its inaugural Long Island Biennial. This juried exhibition features 44 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs by professional artists living on Long Island, selected from more than 250 entries by jurors Dr. Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, Renato Danese, Danese Gallery, New York and Richard Lippe, collector of American art, Long Island.  All submitted works will be displayed on the Museum Website Long Island Biennial Gallery, presenting a broad range of current artistic practice.  Video and film entries will be juried and shown by Cinema Arts Centre, the Museum’s collaborative partner for the Long Island Biennial. Funding for this exhibition is provided in part by Astoria Federal Savings, Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, Farrell Fritz, P.C. and the New York State Council on the Arts.
 
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Artists have always traveled – to study, to vacation and in search of inspiration and their works have inspired others to travel, too. Metropolis: Traveling the World presents 30 alluring images of some of the world’s major cities by American artists from The Museum’s Permanent Collection. Nineteenth-century artists depicted the colorful, romantic and exotic aspects of international locales in highly detailed, realistic images that often served as souvenirs for affluent travelers on the Grand Tour of Europe, as seen in works by George Loring Brown, John Linton Chapman and Samuel Colman. Later painters inspired by the Impressionists, like Charles Webster Hawthorne and Robert Hallowell, focused more on light and atmosphere than physical description. Other twentieth-century artists responded to new sights with more avant-garde styles, ranging from the early modernism of Georgia O’Keeffe and George Biddle to the abstract styles of Jules Olitski, Betty Parsons and Vincent Pepi. Works by William Merritt Chase and John Taylor Arms will also be included in this exhibition, as will five lively prints from Risaburo Kimura’s Great Cities of the World series, seen here in exuberant images of Paris, Venice, Madrid, Shanghai and Bangkok.