Purchase's Fall Culture Calendar Has an End Date: Sculpture Gardens, the Neuberger and the PAC

Purchase's three cultural venues sit within a short drive of one another, and each one keeps its own calendar. Through the end of the year, those calendars wind down one at a time. The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo close to the public after November 22. Every current show at the Neuberger Museum of Art except its ongoing collection display closes on December 20, 2026. Only the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College keeps going, because its Center Series runs from October through May.

Laid side by side, the calendars show that the fall season is shorter than it looks from any one venue's website. Counting from today, October 6, the gardens have 13 public days left. The most locally specific object on display anywhere in the county this year is in a Purchase gallery, and it goes back into storage before Christmas.

Thirteen Days Left at 700 Anderson Hill Road

PepsiCo's posted 2026 season opens the gardens to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends, March 29 through November 22, plus a short list of holidays. The last of those holidays is Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day, which falls on Monday, October 12 this year. The page also lists two weekends when the gardens are closed for company events. The first was September 26–27. The second is October 17–18.

Six weekends remain, from October 10 through November 22. Add the October 12 holiday and you get 13 open days, all of them between 10 and 4. With autumn's short afternoons, the real window on a late-November Sunday is tighter than the posted hours.

PepsiCo's 2026 brochure counts 42 works on the grounds. Older visitor guides still say "nearly 50," but the brochure's figure is the current one. The official garden page names these works, among others:

• Alexander Calder's "Hats Off"
• Henry Moore's "Double Oval"
• Arnaldo Pomodoro's "Il Grande Disco" and "Triad"
• David Wynne's "Grizzly Bear"

The planting matters as much as the bronze and steel. According to the brochure, Russell Page began extending the gardens in 1980 and designed the Golden Path. François Goffinet carried the garden's development forward from 1985. Seeing that design in its fall state is only possible during these last six weekends.

PepsiCo's campus rules are short, and some of them surprise first-time visitors. Pets are not allowed, including leashed dogs, though service animals are. Picnics are prohibited, but beverages and light snacks are fine. The grounds are private corporate property, so PepsiCo can close the campus or revoke access at its discretion, and visitors may not enter office buildings. The posted schedule also warns that public access can change with little or no notice. Checking the page on the morning of a visit is a sensible habit, especially late in the season.

The Neuberger's December 20

From the PepsiCo campus, a short drive takes you to the Neuberger Museum of Art on the Purchase College campus. It is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and general admission is currently free for all visitors.

The exhibition with the strongest local claim this year is The Declaration Distributed: Westchester County's Holt Broadside of 1776, on view through December 20, 2026. The object is a single printed sheet, about 20 by 12 inches, produced by printer John Holt on July 9, 1776. New York adopted the Declaration of Independence that same day and commissioned Holt to print and circulate the state's adoption. According to the museum, only a handful of his sheets survive.

The Westchester County Archives records that the Declaration was read from the courthouse steps in White Plains on July 11, 1776. The County's own wording on this particular sheet is careful. Its edition "is believed to be the document that was read in White Plains shortly after the Declaration was adopted." Westfair's coverage treated that White Plains reading as reported rather than certain, too.

What is certain is where the sheet has been. Courtney Fallon, the County's assistant director and records manager, said it had been "carefully preserved in the Westchester County Archives" for more than three decades before this showing. Deputy County Executive Joan McDonald described two years of work by County Records Management & Archives and County Tourism & Film with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That work went into a display case that meets the document's size and temperature-control requirements. County Executive Ken Jenkins put the local stakes this way:

"We often talk about the founding of this nation as something that happened somewhere else, in Philadelphia, Boston or Washington, but this exhibition is a powerful reminder that Westchester County was part of that story from the very beginning."

The galleries make this a fuller afternoon than one document would. Two Guerrilla Girls exhibitions close the same day. Guerrilla Girls: Food for Thought has been up since April 1, and The Guerrilla Girls Complaints Department opened July 2. The ongoing Then and Now: Selections from the Collection fills the West and South Galleries with rotating works, including sculpture originally given by founding patron Roy R. Neuberger.

The next listed show is Donna Conlon: Birds, Ants, Trees, and Trash, a survey of 15 video works. The museum lists it only as "Spring 2027." After December 20, the current lineup is gone, and no date has been posted for what follows.

The PAC Keeps Going, and Its Dates Overlap

The Performing Arts Center is the one Purchase venue whose season runs past the new year. Its 2026–27 Center Series includes music, dance, spoken word, theatre for young audiences and film. Several of the fall dates fall on the same weekends as the other two venues' closures and final days.

Published pricing is thin. The one confirmed range is for Treasure Island Reimagined, where orchestra seats run $12.75 to $45.50. Child and student tickets are 50% off, and seniors, veterans and Purchase College alumni get 10% off. A $2.50 administrative fee and a sliding-scale processing fee are added. For the other shows, the PAC's calendar links to ticket sales without listing prices, so check the ticket page before you count on a number.

Where the Three Calendars Meet

Three weekends carry most of the scheduling decisions this fall.

1. October 17–18. A Saturday-afternoon family show at the PAC lands on one of the two weekends PepsiCo has closed the gardens. If you were planning a morning among the sculptures before Treasure Island Reimagined, move the garden visit to October 10–11, the Columbus Day Monday or the following weekend. The Neuberger keeps its usual hours that weekend and is a short drive from the PAC, both on the Purchase College campus.
2. November 21–22. Saturday night brings the Joshua Redman Quartet at the PAC, and Sunday afternoon at 4 is the last public hour at the sculpture gardens until PepsiCo posts a 2027 season. It is the last weekend this year when all three venues are open.
3. December 19–20. The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert plays Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3, and Sunday is the Holt Broadside's final day at the Neuberger. With museum hours of noon to 5, a Sunday visit fits before the matinee if you arrive close to opening.

The gardens close first, the Neuberger's current shows close a month later, and the PAC continues into spring. For anyone living in Purchase or elsewhere in Harrison, the dates above are the season's limits. For anyone in White Plains, the Holt Broadside is the copy the County believes was read aloud on its courthouse steps on July 11, 1776, and it is on view a short drive from there, free, through December 20.

The calendars in Purchase say a lot about daily life there, and that is the kind of local knowledge The Danielle Reese Team brings to every conversation about Harrison and the surrounding towns. If you'd like to talk about what life near Anderson Hill Road looks like through the year, Let's Start a Conversation.