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Arts
Amsterdam Museums
Apr 2, 2019
Art report from Amsterdam: the winter and spring 2019 blockbuster museum shows (and a couple of smaller ones)
Apr 2, 2019
Authors Night
Apr 16, 2019
An interview with author, stand-up comic and actor Robert Klein, plus comments from Hamptons Magazine featured guest authors on Authors Night 2011
Apr 16, 2019
Aug 25, 2013
Authors Night 2013: interviews with five terrifically talented (and youngish) authors encompassing fiction, memoir and food writing, and what Authors Night means to them August 25, 2013
Aug 25, 2013
Aug 18, 2010
What my four guest authors who know a thing or two about life and style thought about it all (including my house)
Aug 18, 2010
Authors Night 2012
Aug 14, 2012
Jorge Luis Borges imagined paradise as a kind of library, and many of us in the Hamptons had a tiny glimpse of paradise at the East Hampton Library Authors Night benefit
Aug 14, 2012
Bobby Van’s
Sep 15, 2007
Glamorous film star Jane Russel arrived at Bobby Vans’s wearing a golden mink coat (it might have been August) and other tales of the legendary writers’ hangout in Bridgehampton
Sep 15, 2007
Design
May 4, 2011
Where is interior design heading in the Hamptons? Freedom, or at least freedom from prescribed looks and trends, is in the air
May 4, 2011
Jul 15, 2009
Nine of America’s top fashion designers curate an exhibit at Guild Hall titled “The Art of Fashion in the Hamptons.” Don’t miss it, it’s a knockout
Jul 15, 2009
Jun 10, 2009
A review of architectural styles in the Hamptons from colonial times to the present. Hint: when it comes to grace and beauty we’re not so hot these days
Jun 10, 2009
Aug 18, 2008
The home and studio of a highly creative couple, Joe Zucker and Britta Le Va,: austere beauty that is at the same time welcoming and lived in
Aug 18, 2008
Jul 16, 2008
Artist, writer, gardener, designer, collector, raconteur: at home with the cultivated, enlightened and elegant Robert Dash
Jul 16, 2008
Apr 24, 2007
A couple deep into fashion acquire the former Bouvier family estate on Further Lane. I caught up with them to discuss their aesthetic and lifestyle philosophy and their plans
Apr 24, 2007
Jun 28, 2006
The state of architecture in the Hamptons: convention beats innovation every time as architecture succumbs to sociology. It is white bread with fancy trimmings.
Jun 28, 2006
May 22, 2006
The Hamptons Designer Showhouse: sipping cocktails with the big names involved and making sure we don’t put our glass down on a priceless table
May 22, 2006
Jun 25, 2000
An analytical look at one of the greatest estates in the Hamptons.
Jun 25, 2000
Galleries
Jun 22, 1998
Looking around: a guide to the art galleries
Jun 22, 1998
Jackson Pollock /Pollock-Krasner House
Oct 4, 2011
He lived fast and died young, and made a mess of things. Yet along the way he forever changed our understanding of art
Oct 4, 2011
Mar 7, 1999
Cleaning up Jackson Pollock’s image: the nanny state constructs a cordon sanitaire.
Mar 7, 1999
Jun 22, 1998
The farmhouse and barn on Accabonac Harbor that changed the way the world views art. All that, right here.
Jun 22, 1998
John Drew Theater at Guild Hall
Sep 29, 2008
After a multi-million dollar restoration the new John Drew Theater at Guild Hall looks a lot like the old John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. And that’s the point
Sep 29, 2008
LongHouse
Jun 7, 2007
LongHouse: when a personal vision grows into a public institution there is a lot to think about. Ultimate identity, most of all
Jun 7, 2007
Moran - de Kooning and Krasner
Jul 4, 2018
Art Lovers: three important women artists who worked in the Hamptons, were married to prominent painters and put their husbands’ careers ahead of their own
Jul 4, 2018
New World Symphony
Aug 16, 1998
Young musicians from a symphony orchestra making a splash in the Hamptons.
Aug 16, 1998
Robert Wilson Watermill Center
May 16, 2011
A conversation with Robert Wilson about the Watermill Center, including the all-important question of how the vision continues in future generations
May 16, 2011
Jun 21, 2010
It was a Western Union research laboratory in 1925 and a manufacturing facility for military equipment during WW2: the strange history of what is now Watermill Center
Jun 21, 2010
Jul 21, 2008
Watermill Center, an incubator for the arts, adds year round residencies to its International Summer Arts Program. The creative process is alive, well and thriving in the Hamptons
Jul 21, 2008
Jun 22, 2007
You know Robert Wilson for his work in theater and dance and opera and architecture and design; now he has turned his discerning eye to portraiture
Jun 22, 2007
Jul 22, 1999
International, yes. But also an important (if somewhat hidden) cultural resource for the local community.
Jul 22, 1999
Steven Klein
Aug 13, 2007
Steven Klein creates a visually direct equestrian photograph expressing pared down beauty and strength. The horse, unlike mere rock stars, needs no enhancement
Aug 13, 2007
Stonybrook Southampton
Jun 16, 2007
The Southampton campus of SUNY is taking a hard look at education there. Food, wine, culture and sustainability are high on the list
Jun 16, 2007
The Tile Club
Jul 17, 2007
A more scholarly look at “The Tile Club at Play,” published in Harper’s Magazine, February 1879. They really did know how to play
Jul 17, 2007
Jul 16, 2007
The very first hip downtown group visited East Hampton in 1878. They were cool, clever, outrageous, artistic and inspired
Jul 16, 2007
Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran
Jan 9, 2012
A history of the unusual and creative Moran family and (ditto) Moran house and studio from 1884 to 2012, both house and family a renowned part of East Hampton history
Jan 9, 2012
Feb 8, 2009
The preservation of the “The Studio” moves ahead with a $525,000 matching grant from “Save America’s Treasures,” a program of the National Parks Service
Feb 8, 2009
Aug 18, 2008
The Thomas Moran landscape “Green River of Wyoming” sold at Christie’s for $17.73 million, doubling the record for a 19th century American painting. Good news for East Hampton
Aug 18, 2008
Jun 20, 2007
Saving East Hampton’s first example of experimental architecture, the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran House and Studio. And, we hope, keeping alive their aesthetic and romantic tradition
Jun 20, 2007