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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Field of Dreams

June 10 – Aug 31, 2021
279 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill, NY 11976, United States

At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the art has ventured into the great outdoors. Making use of the museum’s 14 acres of grounds, the landscape artist Mary Margaret Jones has divided the gardens into three distinct spaces: an Entry Meadow to the north, a Terrace Meadow to the west, and a Great Meadow to the south. The Parrish’s inaugural sculpture exhibition includes the artists Jim Dine, Theaster Gates, Isa Genzken, Roy Lichtenstein, Giuseppe Penone, Jaume Plensa, Joel Shapiro, and Bernar Venet. Highlights are Plensa’s fabulous bronze portraits, originally carved in oak, and Gates’s Monument in Waiting. Its domineering stone plinths—one of which reads “Until real heroes bloom, this dusty plinth will wait”—are heavily quiet on a large granite plaza. —E.C.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt © Martin Creed. All Rights Reserved © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London.