Arts

Any artist or art lover knows that inspiration is not seasonal, so it's a good thing we can count events and activities all year at the Pollack-Krasner House and Study Center to keep your creativity flowing. They have lots of exciting opportunities to learn and explore new artistic skills, plus there is even a virtual reality app available!

It starts with a SPARK! Inspiration, creativity, and change can be hard to engineer; sometimes, we need a jolt to ignite our motors. Art is always there to give us that spark to open our eyes and ears to new ideas. Kicking off 2023, the SPARK Exhibit is sure to get you thinking and charged up for a...

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill offers guided tours every Saturday.  Currently on view is Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things. The work is an exploration of how the artist "exploits the essential properties of his selected medium to create sculptures that inherently lay bare the process by which they were made." The Museum offers guided tours...

The board of directors of Southampton Arts Center is pleased to announce they have appointed a new executive director – Christina Mossaides Strassfield. After 29 years at Guild Hall, having served as museum director and chief curator for the past 20 years, Strassfield will now assume her position at SAC, leading and advancing the organization’s mission of community...

The Parrish Art Museum presents Kahlo: An Expanded Body—a groundbreaking investigation into iconic artist Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954) through the lens of her dramatic medical history and its sustained impact on her life and work. The multi-gallery exhibition, on view November 20, 2022 through April 2, 2023, provides new insight into the importance of the body as enduring...

Shinnecock artist Denise “Weetahmoe” Silva-Dennis (American, b. 1960) will discuss her 2022 Parrish Road Show installation Wunne Ohke–The Return to Good Ground, a mural depicting the ancestral history of Shinnecock Bay, at the Museum on Friday, November 4, 6PM.  Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, will moderate the talk....

Colors are inherently evocative. Our natural world bursts with colors, many of which are as quickly associated with feelings as they are a time and place. Green may conjure emotions of renewal, birth, and growth; Blue: purity, cleansing, and calm; Red: vitality, violence, and birth. Colors stir something within us, they are their own stories.  STORIES IN COLOR,...

Summer’s sun fades too fast, but don’t despair…On the Bright Side, consider the colors of changing leaves. Beauty is all around us, in shades and hues too many to mention, but we need the perspective to see it. Voted best gallery in the Hamptons, The White Room Gallery, is living up to the accolades with its latest exhibit...

A CELEBRATION OF TREES is an ecological multi-media art exhibition created to educate and expand thought and consciousness about the world’s vast network of trees–a critical resource to humanity’s survival. For 300 million years, these species have helped stabilize and improve environmental conditions for life on our planet and today are an essential solution to global warming.

A group of local watercolor artists will present a new art show called “Watercolor+” on Friday, September 23rd  from 3 pm to 7pm, Saturday, September 24th from 10am to 8pm, and Sunday, September 25th from 11am to 4pm at Ashawagh Hall, 780 Springs Fireplace Rd, East Hampton. Featured artists include Kirsten Benfield, Nancy Brody, Barbara Dilorenzo, Laurie Hall,...