For cabin-feverish New Yorkers, sculpture garden pilgrimages are definitely a thing. But getting to the most famous ones can be a headache. Dia Beacon, for instance, will take you an hour and a half by car, if there’s no traffic. Storm King will run you about the same. The less known one at Pepsico’s headquarters in Purchase, New York, however, is less than 40 minutes away. At the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, which surround the soft-drink giant’s historic midcentury building designed by Edward Durrell Stone, are 45 major large-scale pieces by masters including Jean DuBuffet, Alexander Calder, and Claes Oldenburg. When you’re finished there, if architecture is a passion of yours, drive directly across Anderson Hill Road onto the campus of SUNY Purchase (there‘s a beautiful Henry Moore sculpture at the entrance) to see buildings by the likes of Paul Rudolph and Robert Venturi. The Neuberger Museum of Art has an impressive collection that includes works by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Georgia O’Keefe, and Willem de Kooning. After a day of discovery, drive across the border into Greenwich, Connecticut, to stay at the elegant Delamar Greenwich Harbor Hotel, only 15 minutes from the campus by car.
