CURRENT, UPCOMING, & PAST
Exhibitions & Events
The Garden of Friends: Ode to the Sea
Each spring, The Leiber Collection welcomes the season with The Garden of Friends, an annual outdoor exhibition set within the Leiber Sculpture Garden. This beloved series celebrates an outstanding group of East End artists whose work reflects the region’s rich creative legacy and deep connection to the natural landscape. Thoughtfully integrated throughout the garden, the artworks invite visitors to experience art in dialogue with nature, encouraging reflection, discovery, and a sense of community.
Judith and Gerson Leiber: A Passion For Fashion
The Leiber Collection is pleased to present Judith and Gerson Leiber: A Passion for Fashion, a vibrant exhibition celebrating the extraordinary creative partnership between Judith Leiber, renowned for her iconic handbags, and Gerson Leiber, an accomplished abstract and fashion painter. Opening on Saturday, May 30, from 2 to 5 PM, the exhibition explores the shared artistic life of Judith and Gerson Leiber, shaped by a deep and enduring commitment to beauty, craftsmanship, and imagination.
Gerson Leiber: An Inexplicable Light
The Leiber Collection is proud to present Gerson Leiber: An Inexplicable Light, a poignant exhibition honoring the late artist’s final decade of work and culminating in his last painting, An Inexplicable Light. This deeply personal presentation offers a rare and intimate look at Gerson Leiber’s enduring exploration of abstraction, color, and form in the years leading up to his passing.
Gerson Leiber: The Poetry of Geometry and Color
The Leiber Collection is pleased to present Gerson Leiber: The Poetry of Geometry and Color, an exhibition celebrating a dynamic decade in the career of artist Gerson Leiber. This focused presentation brings together works that reflect Leiber’s immersion in abstraction and his dialogue with modernist movements that fused emotion, geometry, and color into poetic visual form.
Viva Verdi ~ Opera in the Leiber Sculpture Garden
An intimate concert featuring music from some of beloved Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s most famous operas, including Il Trovatore, La Traviata and Rigoletto, with two world-class opera singers accompanied by piano.
Animated by Art Marionette-Making Workshop Series and Showcase
This summer, the Leiber Collection invites you to step into a world of whimsy, creativity, and motion with Animated by Art—a captivating marionette-making workshop series led by master marionette artist Kim Profaci.
Luminous Poems inspired by Luminaries Judith and Gerson Leiber
If you haven’t yet stargazed this summer, join us at The Leiber Collection Museum and Sculpture Garden on Tuesday, July 15, and Wednesday, August 13 at 4 pm, for two scintillating evenings of luminous poetry. FREE Admission with RSVP.
Artists Talk ~ Bastienne Schmidt and Phillipe Cheng
The Leiber Collection is delighted to host distinguished artists Bastienne Schmidt and Philippe Cheng for an intimate Artist Talk on Sunday, July 13 at 4:00 PM, as part of the ongoing Garden of Friends exhibition series. Free admission with reservation.
CELEBRATION! ~ 20 Years of Art, Fashion and The Garden
We are thrilled to announce our new exhibition ‘CELEBRATION! ~ 20 Years of Art, Fashion and The Garden’ featuring works by Judith and Gerson Leiber and our 2025 Garden of Friends Artists.
CELEBRATION! ~ 20 Years of Art, Fashion and The Garden
In 2005, Gerson and Judith Leiber built a museum to house their art collection and chronicle their careers, offering an unparalleled retrospective of their creations over the past decades.
More About The Leiber Collection
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![A Judith Leiber handbag of a sitting polar bear covered in white and silver rhinestones on a plain gray background.]()
Our Mission
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![Gerson and Judith Leiber in vintage clothing and hats, looking at each other closely, standing against a plain white background.]()
The Leiber Legacy
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![Close-up view of a blue sculpture with circular holes and metal pegs, surrounded by green tree leaves, with sunlight filtering through the trees.]()
The Sculpture Garden
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![A rectangular clutch bag by Judith Leiber decorated with rhinestones depicting a cartoonish woman with pink hair, wearing a pink top and blue bra, holding a wine glass, with a man in a tuxedo next to her.]()
Judith Leiber & Her Famed Handbag Collection
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![A painting by Gerson Leiber of a woman in a leopard print dress sitting on a black surface with her arms extended to the sides and one leg bent, wearing a black hat.]()
Gerson Leiber & His Painting Collection
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![Gerson Leiber in a tuxedo with glasses and Judith Leiber in a dress at a formal event, standing near a microphone, with the woman holding glasses and smiling.]()
Judith and Gerson Leiber Obituaries
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![New York magazine logo stylized black text reading 'New York' on a white background.]()
The Leiber Collection In the Press
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![Black wrought iron gate at the entrance of The Leiber Collection with decorative patterns and a central lock, flanked by brick pillars with white spherical caps, leading to a garden with a gravel pathway surrounded by green trees and foliage.]()
Visit Us
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![A semi-circle clutch purse by Judith Leiber in the shape of a half grapefruit decorated with pink and white rhinestones.]()
Current, Upcoming, & Past Exhibitions & Events
