LongHouse Reserve will open its 2024 season on Saturday with its annual Rites of Spring celebration. The day's events include "Full Circle: Toshiko Takaezu and Friends," an exhibition of work by the influential ceramic artist; a talk about Takaezu's work by Glenn Adamson, the show's curator; new art and design works by multiple artists, and a workshop devoted to the creation of unique headdresses.
"This season will be our liveliest ever!" said Carrie Rebora Barratt, director of LongHouse. "We have art, performances, conversations, craft workshops, and well-being activities for the whole family,"
"Full Circle" is being presented concurrently with Takaezu's retrospective at the Noguchi Museum in Queens. The core of the East Hampton exhibition consists of pieces acquired from the artist by Jack Lenor Larsen, LongHouse's founder, as well as gifts from Takaezu, including the "Gateway Bell."
The exhibition includes all of LongHouse's holdings of Takaezu's work, supplemented by key loans and work by other artists whose lives and art were influenced by her. They include Lenore Tawney, a fiber artist and collagist; Anna Kang Burgess, Takaezu’s close friend and fellow Cranbrook alumna, and Fitzhugh Karol and Martha Russo, both of whom apprenticed with Takaezu before realizing prominent careers in sculpture.
Mr. Adamson will be joined by Ms. Barratt, Ms. Russo, and other artists in the exhibition for a discussion about "Full Circle" on Saturday afternoon at 3.
In addition to the artists named above, visitors will encounter new pieces in the gardens by Agathe Snow, Bill King, Robert Lobe, and Monica Banks, as well as works by Jonathan Adler, Hangama Amiri, Daniel Arsham, Liz Collins, Machine Dazzle, Maryam Eisler, Buckminster Fuller, Paola Lenti, Sol LeWitt, Mark Mennin, Joel Mesler, Shirin Neshat, Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Kenny Scharf, Mickalene Thomas, and Ai Weiwei.
Over the course of the summer there will be performances by Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, the Iris Trio, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and Young Concert Artists.
Tickets to Saturday's 3 p.m. lecture are $35, $25 for members.
Before the lecture, at 12:30 p.m., Kate Mueth, artistic director of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, will guide a workshop devoted to the creation of unique headdresses inspired by the costumes the Cowgirls are known for. The workshop costs $25, $15 for members.
