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Carrie Barratt with artist Steven and William Ladd during their LongHouse Reserve Talk on April 30. © RICHARD LEWIN
LongHouse Reserve's opening day was April 30. © RICHARD LEWIN
The Ladd brothers installation "Right Here, Right Now." © RICHARD LEWIN
LongHouse Reserve, the 16-acre nature reserve and sculpture garden in East Hampton, opened its 2022 season on April 30, with hundreds of visitors and nearly a million blooming daffodils. New works on view include a commissioned installation by William and Steven Ladd and sculptures by Moko Fukuyama and Alexander Polzin, joining permanent installations by Buckminster Fuller, Yoko Ono, Willem de Kooning and many others.
As part of the opening, William and Steven Ladd participated in the first in a series titled “LongHouse Talks” with Director Carrie Barratt who explained, “Conversations with artists and thinkers have a long history at LongHouse — [founder] Jack [Lenor Larsen] was one of the great conversationalists — and ‘LongHouse Talks’ continues this tradition. Over the summer, we will offer a series of talks with artists, architects, designers, dancers, musicians, gardeners and other thought partners, in living with art in all of its forms.”
Steven and William Ladd’s work “Right Here, Right Now,” is installed at LongHouse. A large scale bridge-like environment, it is constructed out of disks of cedar branches collected from the artists’ property in Germantown, New York.
“We’ve been wanting to create a large-scale outdoor sculpture for years and to have the opportunity to install one in such a prestigious and immaculate environment gave us a high bar to aspire to” said Steven Ladd, “The connection with nature, craftsmanship and community at LongHouse was a natural fit for us.”
Upcoming “LongHouse Talks” will be offered by Lee Skolnick, Glenn Adamson, Moko Fukuyama, Edwina von Gal, Marren Hassinger Fitzhugh Karol, Abdul Latif, Alexander Polzin and Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, all of whom are presenting their work and practice at LongHouse this season.
“We welcome our community to join us, equally for talking and listening, as each presentation will include time for broad conversation,” said Barratt.
Horticulturist Holger Winenga leads weekly garden tours on Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Also offered on Sundays are weekly walking meditations and gentle movement with instructor Jason Amis. Later this summer, Longhouse will install artworks by Bjorn Amelan, Byung-Hoon Choi, Niki de Saint Phalle, and a commissioned work by Cheng Tsung Feng.
LongHouse Reserve is at 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton. For more information, visit longhouse.org.
2022 Season at LongHouse Reserve
May 29: LongHouse Talks with Bjorn Amelan on his Sumi ink Pictographs
June 6: LongHouse Talks with Lee Skolnick on Jack’s House
June 9: LongHouse Talks with Alexander Polzin on his sculpture, Parthenope
June 15 to 19: Student Annual in the Pavilion
June 19: Seed Saving Workshops honoring Juneteenth
June 26: LongHouse welcomes Hampton’s Pride
July 16: LongHouse Bamboo Celebration with Cheng Tsung Feng
July 23: LongHouse Summer Benefit
August 5: Piano Concert by Llewellyn Sanchez Werner
August 20 to 22: Abdul Latif Premiere Water Ballet
September 24: Landscape Lunch
Spring Garden Tours Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Sound and Silence Meditation Saturdays at 9 a.m. (starting in June)
Gentle Movement and Forest Bathing Saturdays at 10 a.m. (starting in May)
Twilight Tours Monday evenings (starting in July)
For Reservations and more information: longhouse.org
Staff Writer on May 11, 2022