This summer, the Guild Hall will stage an outdoor theater series, with plays by Kurt Vonnegut, Wendy Wasserstein, and Edward Albee; host a solo show of artist Robert Longo; and amid various other programming, attempt to close out its capital campaign for the renovation, which will include a retrofit of its theater by Bran Ferren’s Applied Minds. (The renovation will extend through 2022; the Guild Hall’s board has already donated about $4.5 million of its $10 million goal.) The Guild Hall's final exhibition this Fall will be selections from its 2,400-piece permanent collection, which includes work by more than 500 artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Cindy Sherman.
Meanwhile, Taxter, who has led the Parrish for just a few months, says she plans to beef up the Herzog & de Meuron-designed building’s exhibitions while broadening its scope.
“I’m thinking about diversity. I’m thinking about practitioners from other parts of the world, people that might have histories of migration, or forced migration in their families that inflect upon their work,” she says. “I’d love the Parrish to be more full-time and offer programming year-round that’s as important and visited as what we do in the summer.”
And that seems to be the key: Institutions large and small are doubling down on becoming part of the area’s cultural firmament, rather than simply seasonal attractions.
“We’re very happy about all of this activity,” says Grover. “It makes us feel like we’re in the right place at the right time.”
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