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Long Island Biennial: Call for Entries 2018

MUSEUM PRESS RELEASE
February 2018

The Heckscher Museum of Art is accepting entries for the 2018 Long Island Biennial beginning February 1, 2018. Inaugurated in 2010, the Long Island Biennial is a juried competition offering…

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…

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…

From Frankenthaler to Warhol: Art of the ’60s and ’70s

MUSEUM PRESS RELEASE
September 20, 2017

Andy Warhol’s soup can and Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-inspired images are among the works of art featured in The Heckscher Museum of Art’s exhibition From Frankenthaler to Warhol: Art of the…

NEWSDAY: Earth Day Exhibits Inspired By Thoreau

Newsday
BY STEVE PARKS

April 21, 2017

The Heckscher Museum of Art invites you to observe Earth Day tomorrow by perusing a pair of environmentally themed exhibits inspired, directly or indirectly, by Henry David Thoreau, who was…

LONG ISLAND PULSE: Heckscher Museum Leaps into Nature

Long Island Pulse
BY ANNA HALKIDIS

March 27, 2017

Diving into nature won’t be difficult while walking through two upcoming concurrent exhibitions at Heckscher Museum—Earth Muse: Art and the Environment and Thaddeus Holownia: Walden Revisited. The first features aerial…