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LONGHOUSE RESERVE 2016 JUBILEE YEAR SUMMER BENEFIT—SERIOUS
MOONLIGHT—TO CELEBRATE 25 EXCEPTIONAL YEARS ON SATURDAY,
JULY 23
2016 marks the 25th anniversary
of LongHouse
Reserve. At SERIOUS
MOONLIGHT on
Saturday, July 23rd, many of the artists and art
lovers that the Foundation has honored will in turn be
honoring founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, and the future of the
16-acre treasure that is LongHouse. On the night, either on
screen or in person, past honorees Bill
T. Jones, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Gund, Cindy Sherman, Nico
Muhly, Robert Wilson, Barbara Slifka and Dorothy
Lichtenstein will
be there to salute or to entertain.
Alice Waters has
personally overseen the evening’s dinner menu, Christina
Kim created
the hand-silvered invitation and Molly
Chappellet and
her sister Luanne
Wells (the
recipients of the evening’s LongHouse Arts Patron Award)
will be pairing the food with wines from Napa Valley’s famed
Chappellet Vineyards. Molly is a designer, gardener,
photographer, chef, entertainer, and author of five books.
Luanne is the President of the Wells Family Charitable
Foundation and serves as a trustee of the California
Institute of the Art.
The SERIOUS MOONLIGHT dress theme of “Night Sky and Silver”
will be variously interpreted by a crowd that loves to dress
up – with some outfitted by Mary
Jane Marcasiano and Nicole
Miller. A telescope, courtesy of the Montauk
Observatory, will be there for attendees to view the actual
moon, and guests will be ushered through a Walking Through
Time Tunnel.
Another high point of the evening will be a short premiere
of the LongHouse documentary, which is being created by
Checkerboard Films, and the crowning introduction of the
cool and talented first ever three LongHouse Creative
Scholarship winners.
The Summer Benefit Jubilee Auction will include spectacular
items from past honorees, including a one-of-a-kind Blue
Glass Spear sculpture from Dale
Chihuly made
especially for the occasion; a rare and precious drawing
from Robert
Wilson, Philip Glass and Lucinda
Child’s Einstein
on the Beach; as well as works from Cindy
Sherman, Christo,Carol Cassidy, Richard Meier and Ai
Weiwei. The LongHouse Auction is unique, also offering
special works from the organizations favored and generous
artists who exhibit on the East Hampton grounds. These
talents include Grace
Knowlton, Larry Rivers, Bryan Hunt, Eric Fischl, Marko Remec,
Kiki Smith, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov and Jun
Kaneko. Works from these artists will be auctioned
alongside those from locally admired artists Michael
Dweck, April Gornik, Laurie Lambrecht, Gus Leiber, Scott
Bluedorn, Johnny Swing and Jack
Youngerman, and
the globally admired Issey
Miyake, Yoan Capote and Wafaa
Bilal.
But that is not all. As the auction is winding down – the
magic of the night is heating up. Great techno-pop diva Nona
Hendryx will
make a special sound, light and music tribute to David Bowie
and when she sings “Let’s Dance”, it will be to music and
dancing by Donna
D’Cruz.
SERIOUS MOONLIGHT will
take place on Saturday, July 23 from 6:00 – 11:00PM.
For tickets please call 631.329.3568, email events@longhouse.org or
visit http://www.longhouse.org/collections/tickets/products/serious-moonlight-longhouse-summer-benefit.
The Silent
Auction conducted
by fine art auction house Paddle8 will
go live on July 4 at www.paddle8.com/auctions/longhouse.
LongHouse Reserve is currently open on Wednesdays and
Saturdays from 2:00 to 5:00 PM. In July and August,
LongHouse will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays from
2:00 to 5:00 PM. Admission is $10 and $8 for seniors.
Admission is free for LongHouse members, children under 12
and high school and college students with ID.
LongHouse Reserve is located at 133 Hands Creek Road, East
Hampton, NY 11937. www.longhouse.org
About LongHouse Reserve:
LongHouse Reserve is a not-for-profit organization with 16
beautiful acres in East Hampton, New York. Through its art
collections, arboretum, sculpture gardens, and educational
programs, LongHouse Reserve brings together art and nature,
aesthetics and spirit, with the strong conviction that
living with art in all its forms is central to living fully
and living creatively. It seeks to expand the imaginations
of all its visitors, no matter what age or level of
appreciation. Each year the LongHouse Reserve presents major
exhibitions in the pavilion and the gardens. Currently,
there are more than 60 sculptures for the gardens including
works of glass by Dale
Chihuly, ceramics by Toshiko
Takaezu, bronzes by Kiki
Smith, Eric Fischl, Lynda
Benglis and Willem
de Kooning. Works by George
Rickey, Alfonso
Ossorio, Yoko Ono, Pavel
Opocensky, and Takashi
Soga are also
on view, while the installation of a “Fly’s Eye Dome”
designed by Buckminster
Fuller and a
site-specific Sol
LeWitt piece
add interesting scale and dimension.
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