Hudson River Museum inaugurates new West Wing

Kengo Kito”™s “Unity on Hudson” is one of two new shows launching the Hudson River Museum”™s new West Wing today ”“ Friday, June 16. Courtesy Hudson River Museum.

The Hudson River Museum kicks off its new West Wing today ”“ Friday, June 16 ”“ with the opening of two monumental, immersive exhibits. “Kengo Kito: Unity on Hudson” features 2,500 hula hoops in a site-specific installation that the Japanese artist said symbolizes our interconnectedness and relation with the Hudson. “Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage” inaugurates the Community & Partnership Gallery”¯with a 14-panel panoramic painting from the museum”™s collection that depicts a summer gathering of friends and art-world figures along the banks of the Hudson, a homage to Jean-Antoine Watteau”™s “L”™Ebarquement Pour Cythère” (1717). 

We”™ll have more on the new wing in the June 26 edition of the Westchester County Business Journal. But for now, suffice it to say that the wing, designed by Archimuse, expands the museum”™s total footprint by more than 12,000 square feet, including more than 3,000 square feet of exhibit galleries with views of the Hudson River and Palisades.”¯ 

For more, visit hrm.org.