Parrish Art Museum: Herzog & de Meuron's new gallery opens Although New York state's Parrish Art Museum dates from 1898, it was given a new lease of life this month with the opening of its new site in the small village of Water Mill. The relocation means the gallery now has 12,200 square feet of exhibition space at its disposal - three times the space that was available to it at its former home iin Jobs Lane in Southampton. This time round, however, the buidling itself is as much a draw as the artworks within it. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the 615ft-long single-storey building is a sweeping, simple barn-like structure far more restrained in style than many of the architects' previous undertakings (including Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympics Stadium). Initial plans for the museum were more architecturally extravagant but had to be scaled back when sufficient funding couldn't be raised. Now open to the public, the building's ten separate gallery spaces will house works from the Parrish Art Museum's collection of 2,600 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by many of America's most influential artists, as well as a series of temporary exhibitions. Running until January 13, the main current exhibition is dedicated to the London-born, US-based artist Malcolm Morley. More generally, the gallery devotes part of its permanent collection to showcasing the story of America's influential artists' colony Eastern Long Island. See a gallery of the Parish Art Museum's new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building, and current exhibition, here. The Parrish Art Museum's spine gallery. Image: Christopher French