PRESS RELEASES

2024:

DECEMBER

Planting Fields Foundation Announces Sam Van Aken as 2025 Catalyst Artist

JUNE

Follies: Interactive Community Workshop and Performance at Planting Fields

2023:

JUNE

Planting Fields Foundation Releases Courtney M. Leonard & Promised Free Digital Version to the Public in Honor of Indigenous Peoples Day

2022:

SEPTEMBER

Planting Fields Foundation Announces Outside In Installation by
2022 Catalyst Artist Diana Al-Hadid

JUNE

Planting Fields Foundation Celebrates Olmsted 200 with Various Programming

Planting Fields Presents Planting Pride: A Two-Day Festival Celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community

APRIL

Planting Fields Begins Restoration of its Historic Main Entry Drive Revitalizing its Visionary Olmsted Brothers Design

MARCH

Planting Fields Foundation Presents Fashioning Desire:
The Art of Gerda Wegener

Planting Fields Foundation Reopens its Newly Restored Heather Garden

JANUARY

Planting Fields Foundation is Recipient of Unprecedented Multiple Awards from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation

2021:

MAY

Planting Fields Foundation Announces West Portico Ribbon Cutting

New Sound Installation by Composer Nico Muhly Opens at Planting Fields

APRIL

Planting Fields Foundation Opens Everett Shinn: Operatics

Planting Fields Foundation Announces New Visitor Center and Logo

MARCH

Planting Fields Foundation Elects New Trustee and Expands Staff

Planting Fields Foundation Annouces Replanting of Iconic Beech Copse


2020:

DECEMBER

Planting Fields Foundation Appoints Stephen Watters Board President

Planting Fields Foundation Selected as IMLS Museum Partner 

OCTOBER

Planting Fields Foundation Appoints New Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator and Elects Two New Members to the Board of Trustees

SEPTEMBER

New Estate and Exhibition Tours Open in Coe Hall on October 1

Planting Fields Foundation Announces Opening of The Great Bird Blind Debate on September 26

JULY  

Coe Hall Reopens July 8 with Private Exhibition Tours

MARCH

Planting Fields Foundation Selected for Participation in National Museum Assessment Program

FEBRUARY 

Planting Fields Foundation NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Announce Implementation of Cultural Landscape Report Recommendations

JANUARY 

Planting Fields Foundation Announces 2020 Exhibition: The Electrifying Art and Spaces of Robert Winthrop Chanler

Planting Fields Foundation Announces 2020 Exhibition: The Great Bird Blind Debate by Mark Dion and David Brooks


2019:

OCTOBER 

Planting Fields Foundation and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Mourn the Loss of Michael D. Coe

SEPTEMBER 

Planting Fields Host New York State Board for Historic Preservation Meeting

New York State Conservators Continue Preservation Work of Robert Winthrop Chanler Buffalo Room in Coe Hall

JULY 

Planting Fields Foundation Unveils New Website and Expanded Membership Program

APRIL 

Planting Fields Foundation Announces New Hires in Marketing and Programs

Planting Fields Foundation Announces 2019 Coe Hall Exhibition

MARCH 

Planting Fields Foundation Announces 33rd Annual Arbor Day Family Festival

DECEMBER

Planting Fields Foundation Announces New Executive Director

HIGHLIGHTS 

“Everett Shinn: Operatics“
American Art Review
Fall 2021

“Long Island Opulence: Gatsby and the Mansions of the Gold Coast” 
The Bowery Boys New York City History Podcast #362
May 7, 2021

“3 Design Happenings to Check Out This Week” 
New York Magazine, The Cut
August 6, 2020

“The Electrifying Art and Spaces of Robert Winthrop Chanler”
Antiques & Fine Art
Summer 2020

“New Pastures: Rachel Weisz on passion projects, real-life heroes and life as a working mother”
Harper’s Bazaar
June 2020

Annie Leibovitz photoshoot of Olivia Coleman in Coe Hall
VOGUE
October 2019