{"id":166801,"date":"2025-11-06T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166801\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:27:12","slug":"flag-art-foundation-parrish-art-museum-plan-new-exhibition-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166801\/","title":{"rendered":"FLAG Art Foundation, Parrish Art Museum Plan New Exhibition Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York\u2013based FLAG Art Foundation<\/a> and the Parrish Art Museum<\/a> in Water Mill, New York, have announced a new partnership that will see the two organizations collaborate on three exhibitions annually beginning next year and extending until 2030.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exhibitions will be jointly organized by the Parrish\u2019s curatorial team and that of the FLAG Foundation and will be staged in two adjoining galleries at the Hamptons museum. The inaugural exhibition, a solo exhibition for Ellsworth Kelly featuring work from across his eight-decade career, will open in March 2026.<\/p>\n

\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/p>\n

\n\tThe partnership builds on an existing one that launched last year when the Parrish and FLAG launched an exhibition series, titled \u201cFRESH PAINT,\u201d featuring a previously unshown work by a contemporary artist. That collaboration was so fruitful that the two institutions have decided to expand it further.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTeamwork and working together is something that I have always cherished, and much of my business career has been driven by partnerships,\u201d FLAG Art Foundation founder Glenn Fuhrman<\/a> told ARTnews in a recent Zoom interview. \u201cFLAG is certainly built on the nature of partnerships. We\u2019re all bringing together different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s worked very well, which is why we are expanding,\u201d said Parrish executive director M\u00f3nica Ram\u00edrez-Montagut.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, the museum\u2019s Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Parrish will now be officially called The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. Ram\u00edrez-Montagut said she had suggested the named position as a \u201ctalent retention\u201d tool, adding that \u201cas a regional museum hitting above its weight, with very talented curators doing tremendous work, we need to make sure that we continue to be attractive to museum professionals and keep them working at a regional level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tReggie Burrows Hodges,\u00a0Labor: Sound Bath, 2022, installation view at the Parrish Art Museum as part of \u201cFresh Paint,\u201d 2025. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto Gary Mamay\/\u00a9Reggie Burrows Hodges\/Courtesy the artist and Karma<\/p>\n

\n\tThat position will be held by Scout Hutchinson, who joined the Parrish in October 2024. Hutchinson has worked with FLAG on several \u201cFresh Paint\u201d exhibitions. Hutchinson has frequently conducted studio visits with FLAG\u2019s director Jonathan Rider as part of the organization of the series, many of which the two have co-curated.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is another way of thinking about how to support artistic practice beyond our brick-and-mortar space,\u201d Rider said. \u201cOur mission is all about how to support contemporary practice in all forms, and the idea of being able to do three more museum-caliber exhibitions per year is incredibly exciting for us at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe teamwork has been a wonderful partnership for us,\u201d Hutchinson said. \u201cBeing able to partner with other small but mighty teams like [the one] at the FLAG Art Foundation is a way to bounce ideas around together and grow our curatorial experience here at the Parrish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kelly show, produced with the artist\u2019s estate and his gallery, Matthew Marks, is \u201csomething really special,\u201d Fuhrman said. \u201cEllsworth spent a lot of time in the Hamptons. He knew and loved the community very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRam\u00edrez-Montagut said they decided on Kelly as the first show in part because of his ties to the East End, as the museum often highlights artists with connections to this part of Long Island.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Two<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRoy Lichtenstein, Tokyo Brushstroke I and II, 1994 (fabricated 2008\/2009). <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a92014 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein\/Courtesy Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman and The Fuhrman Family Foundation<\/p>\n

\n\tFuhrman, who has a family home in the Hamptons, has been visiting the East End for decades, since he graduated college, and over the years, he began visiting the region\u2019s museums, including the Parrish. He soon befriended the museum\u2019s previous director, Terrie Sultan, and their bond eventually led Fuhrman to agree to a long-term loan of two sculptures by Roy Lichtenstein, Tokyo Brushstroke I & II\u00a0(1994), that have stood outside the museum since 2014. Over the years, he would loan other works like Isa Genzken\u2019s Two Orchids (2015\/16).<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Sultan departed the museum in 2021, Fuhrman thought his involvement with the Parrish\u2014beyond the Lichtenstein loan\u2014might fizzle out as can happen during a leadership change. But Ram\u00edrez-Montagut contacted him soon after starting in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom the very beginning, I walked out of that first meeting saying, \u2018This is an exciting moment for the museum. This is going to be a new vision, a new eye toward the future,\u2019\u201d Fuhrman recalled. \u201cI was excited to see if I could just even be a little bit supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat initial conversation ultimately led to the launch, with Fuhrman\u2019s FLAG Art Foundation, of the \u201cFresh Paint\u201d series in 2024. Staged in the lobby and open to the public free of charge, the shows are based on ones held through FLAG\u2019s \u201cSpotlight\u201d initiative. \u201cFresh Paint\u201d has seen the two organizations partner on single-work shows for artists like Lauren Halsey, Derrick Adams, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Raven Halfmoon, and Rudolf Stingel.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDerrick Adams\u2019s Getting the Bag (2024) was the subject of the artist\u2019s 2024\u201325 \u201cFresh Paint\u201d exhibition at the Parrish.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy the artist<\/p>\n

\n\tRam\u00edrez-Montagut said the series interested her because it runs counter to how museums usually operate. Most institutions plan exhibitions years in advance, not only to appropriately research a given artist or subject, but also to fundraise for them. \u201cWe were missing having that finger on the pulse, being there with the national discourse, and being able to be responsive to what\u2019s happening with more immediacy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen she arrived, Ram\u00edrez-Montagut was interested in thinking through what the Parrish would contribute to its audiences, both the local community that lives on the East End year-round and the wealthy summer crowd, which often includes members of the international art world. Ram\u00edrez-Montagut noted that the Parrish serves a 50-mile radius and works with five school districts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are the leading regional museum,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Parrish is an institution with two arms: the left arm is the year-round community that we\u2019re there to serve, and the right arm is programming art of the highest caliber possible to be able to meet the expectations of art experts, many of whom come to the Hamptons in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cThe way that we\u2019ve been programming the museum is by embracing that dichotomy.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe continued focus on year-round programming is one aspect of the new exhibition collaboration with Flag, which will stage three exhibitions annually. The first will typically run from February\/March to June, the second from July to October\/November, and the third around the holiday season. The partnership, Ram\u00edrez-Montagut, allows \u201cus to start building that high-caliber program through the whole year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLauren Halsey,\u00a0pride n progress thang, 2024, installation view as part of the artist\u2019s \u201cFresh Paint\u201d exhibition, at the Parrish Art Museum. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto Gary Mamay\/\u00a9Lauren Halsey\/Courtesy the artist and Gagosian<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is not the first time that FLAG has collaborated with an institution in order to support contemporary art. Since 2018, Fuhrman has partnered with fellow collector Suzanne Deal Booth on the Suzanne Deal Booth \/ FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which she had launched in 2016. That prize is awarded biannually and comes with $200,000 as well as a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, which co-organizes the prize, and FLAG in New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tFuhrman, who likened his involvement to being at the \u201c35,000-foot level,\u201d said that he sees the partnership with Parrish as a potential model for other museums. He likened it to the support he and his wife, Amanda, gave to the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia several years ago that allowed it to go admission free.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf this leads to five other partnerships with between private foundations and five other museums around the country, more power to it,\u201d Fuhrman said. \u201cThat just leads to better exhibitions, better support for museums, better support for artists. That would be a great victory for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRam\u00edrez-Montagut added, \u201cIt not only checks a lot of boxes, but it does it in a different way that perhaps museums are not so used to operating. That opens the possibilities for other museums to see that there are different ways of operating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York\u2013based FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, have announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[11845,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,95913,95914,19,17,95915],"class_list":{"0":"post-166801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artnews-top-200-collectors","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-flag-art-foundation","17":"tag-glenn-fuhrman","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-parrish-art-museum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115505112549691480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}