LongHouse's Spring Benefit To Take Place 3/19 At Lotos Club

LongHouse Reserve's Spring Benefit will take place Thursday, March 19, 2009 at Lotos Club (New York City) 5 East Sixty-sixth Street
Time: 6:30 pm - Reception and Dinner 8:00 pm - Reading and Dessert

Edward Albee and Marian Seldes will present a reading of
Mr. Albee's play Counting the Ways.

Tickets: $250, $500, and $1,000 - Reception, Dinner and Reading; $150- Reading and Dessert only Tickets can be purchased by calling

Marian Seldes, a stage, film, radio and television actress, whose career has spanned six decades, was elected to the Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. She studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse and made her Broadway debut in 1947 with Judith Anderson in Medea. Miss
Seldes earned four Tony nominations, winning in 1967 for her performance in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. Her many films include Leatherheads, August Rush and The Visitor.

She is the author of Time Together, a novel, as well as a memoir, The Bright Lights.

About LongHouse Reserve

Through its gallery, arboretum, sculpture gardens and programs, LongHouse Reserve brings together art and nature, aesthetics and spirit, with a strong conviction that the arts are central to living wholly and creatively. LongHouse Reserve is a not-for-profit museum
that encompasses nearly 16 beautiful acres in East Hampton, New York.
Each year the LongHouse Reserve presents major exhibitions in both the gallery and the gardens. Currently, there are more than 60 sculptures for the gardens including works of glass by Dale Chihuly, ceramics by Takaezu, and bronzes by Barceló, Voulkos, Benglis and de Kooning.
Works by Ossorio, Claus Bury, Yoko Ono, Opocensky, and Takashi Soga are also on view, while the installation of a Fly's Eye Dome designed by Buckminster Fuller and a site-specific Sol Lewitt add interesting scale and dimension. Open days for members and the public are 2 to 5
p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, from April 25 through October 12 (Columbus Day weekend) July and August - Wednesday through Saturday
2-5 p.m. www.longhouse.org