As the Parrish Art Museum gets ready to open its new home in Water Mill, N.Y., its board has elected new leaders. Frederic M. Seegal, a financier, has been selected as chair and H. Peter Haveles, Jr., a lawyer, as president, Artforum reports. Both men have extensive philanthropic records. More details on the appointments are here. Read More
With Southampton, N.Y.’s Parrish Art Museum set to move to its new Herzog & de Meuron–designed home in nearby Water Mill in November, Southampton’s government is moving forward with plans to transform the site that the museum has long called home on Jobs Lane into an arts venue called the Southampton Center. Read More
With the Parrish Art Museum on track to open in its new Herzog & de Meuron–designed home in Water Mill, N.Y., in November, its administrators are taking care of some housekeeping work in its longtime home of Southampton, N.Y. The Southampton Press reports that, at the end of April, the museum sold off a building for $2.875 million that had been used for education programs. Read More
Southampton, N.Y., is set to lose one of its major art attractions this November, when the Parrish Art Museum moves to a new Herzog & de Meuron–designed building a few miles away, in Watermill, N.Y. But the village has been preparing for its move by planning a multi-use cultural center called the Southampton Center on the grounds of the old Parrish museum. Today ArtsBeat reports that David Rockwell has been tapped to design an open-air pavilion there. It is set to be completed by next summer. Read More
