LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will opens on Saturday, April 30, with its annual Rites of Spring celebration. The garden will be blooming with spring flowers – nearly a million daffodils plus cherry trees, tulips, and magnolias, and many new works of art to find throughout the garden.
New art in the garden includes special commissioned installations. Carrie Rebora Barratt, Director of LongHouse Reserve, said “LongHouse Reserve enters its 31st season with a vibrant program of art, design, music, dance, and horticulture, a tribute to our founder’s legacy of living with art in all its forms. Our season celebrates Land, Place, and Spirit, the coordinates at LongHouse that flow from the garden, the outdoor galleries, and the sanctuary created for peaceful contemplation and mindful gathering.”
This season commissioned installations from The Ladd Brothers and Cheng Tsung Feng are joined by new art in the garden by Bjorn Amelan, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alexander Polzin, Byung-Hoon Choi, Moko Fukuyama, and Maren Hassinger.
“Right Here, Right Now,” the Ladd Brothers’ first-ever outdoor sculpture, a woven, cedar-shingled portal, will be introduced on opening day. The artists, Steven and William Ladd, will be on hand to talk with visitors about their piece and their belief in the extraordinary capacities of every human being and the awesome power of community.