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Making a Good Impression: “In a New Light” at the Heckscher

Newsday
BY MARY GREGORY

May 24, 2019

Though avant-garde in its time, Impressionism is now one of the most beloved styles of painting. What started in France, as a way to capture the sense of a specific…

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Heckscher Museum Magazine: April May June 2019

Check out the April May June 2019 issue of The Heckscher Museum Magazine! Read about the latest exhibitions: In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870 -1940 Works from the Bank…

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Heckscher Museum Magazine: Jan Feb March 2019

Check out the Jan Feb March 2019 issue of The Heckscher Museum Magazine! Read about Rivera and Beyond: Art from the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection.

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Collection of a Lifetime: Couple’s Latin American Art at Heckscher

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BY DEIDRE S. GREBEN

November 16, 2018

“It looks like a plucked chicken,” Milton Bagley says of his Woodbury home. The 90-year-old retired ad man is lamenting the many empty walls and bare spaces in the house…

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Two Shows Closely Fitted: Tile Club Laid Side to Side with Biennial

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BY DEIRDRE S. GREBEN

August 3, 2018

Along with black-eyed Susan and lavender salvia, easels are popping up across Long Island’s picturesque terrain. It’s plein-air painting season and enthusiasts are on the hunt for the perfect vista……

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Style in “The Age of Tiffany” The Heckscher Museum of Art

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BY DEIRDRE S. GREBEN

May 18, 2018

For a few days last fall, visitors strolling through the park surrounding Huntington’s Heckscher Museum may have noticed American sculptor Edward Berge’s early 20th century bronze “The Race” beneath a…

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The Age of Tiffany: Between Nouveau and Deco

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s vases, lamps and a stunning stained-glass window light up the gallery in Heckscher Museum of Art’s exhibition The Age of Tiffany: Between Nouveau and Deco. Tiffany led…

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Heavy Metal: Photographs by Jan Staller Opens at the Heckscher Museum

TIMES BEACON RECORD Heavy metal is coming to Huntington’s Heckscher Museum of Art this month. Not in the form of head-banging music but the photography of Jan Staller — a…

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NEWSDAY: Comic Cohorts: The Lockhorns Meet Howard Huge

Newsday
BY JIM MERRITT

October 13, 2017

Bunny Hoest, the comic mind behind nearly 50 years of captions for “The Lockhorns,” admits it isn’t easy coming up with snappy one-liners, day after day, for the endlessly bicker­ing…

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The Lockhorns Meet Howard Huge Opens at the Heckscher

TIMES BEACON RECORD With just one cartoon panel and a few words, comic creator Bunny Hoest of The Lockhorns can deliver a zinger that can prompt a knowing smirk in…

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