LongHouse Reserve will open its 2016 season with Rites of Spring on Saturday, April 30, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Celebrating its 25th year, the anticipated JUBILEE opening of the not-for-profit East Hampton organization will unveil 12 new objects from celebrated artists that will be exhibited across the lush 16-acre gardens and landscaped grounds. The season opening will also bring with it the launch of the JUBILEE exhibition, Master Works, a unique compilation of furnishings plus art-in-craft media hand-curated by founder Jack Lenor Larsen and Wendy Van Deusen, with guest curators James Zemaitis and Sherri Donghia.  KDHamptons shares a sneak peek below, but for more information and to purchase tickets visit HERE. 
Legs by Larry Rivers: He’s been aptly referred to as “a renaissance man,” but Larry Rivers (1923-2002) is considered to be both the godfather and grandfather of Pop Art, being among the first to meld non-objective, non-narrative art to objective and narrative abstraction. Andy Warhol never made it a secret that he was influenced by Rivers’ art, but in perhaps a more revealing quote from the book “Popism” Warhol recognizes Rivers’ unique persona as an influential ingredient in the development of Pop Art. Warhol said, “Larry’s painting style was unique – it wasn’t Abstract Expressionism and it wasn’t Pop, it fell into the period in between. But his personality was very Pop.” These ‘Legs’ are the actual sculpture that ‘walked for years’ across Rivers’ own front yard in Southampton.

The Arch of Life by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Hailing from the Soviet Union and now residing on Long Island, Ilya (b. 1933) and Emilia (b. 1945) base their collaborative work on the intersection of the routine and the conceptual. Informed by their experiences, their work attempts to explain the birth and death of the Soviet Union and the commonality and rift between capitalism and communism.