Parrish Art Museum Raises $1.3 Million As It Fêtes Keith Sonnier And Chad Leat During Annual “Midsummer Party”

The mood at the Parrish Art Museum’s annual Midsummer Party was as ebulliently charged as honoree Keith Sonnier’s neon sculptures that electrified the gallery and festooned the dinner. On display Keith Sonnier: Until Today, the artist’s first solo exhibition in 35 years in an American museum. “I don’t think the Museum has ever looked better than it does right now with Keith Sonnier’s art,” the evening’s other honoree, Chad Leat, told us. “The whole spine and the galleries are just breathtaking.” A second retrospective, of its Permanent Collection: Five and Forward, celebrated five years in the Museum’s sweeping new Water Mill home.