Arts

The Hamptons is home to some incredible art galleries that carefully curate thought-provoking exhibitions featuring local and international artists.  

Earlier this month, Guild Hall invited the community to slow down and look closer during Art & Social: Painting Tiny with Michael A. Butler. This hands-on workshop led by East End artist Michael A. Butler explored the art of working on a miniature scale—inviting participants to create their own small-format paintings using magnifying tools and a steady hand.

Following the success of his recent solo exhibition Like No One at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, artist Michael McDowell returns as one of several artists featured in the exhibition Sea Through River, now on view at LTV Studios, 75 Industrial Road, Wainscott. The exhibition is on display through November 30, and features eleven of Michael’s paintings, alongside the...

The FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum are proud to announce a new curatorial partnership in which FLAG and the Parrish will collaborate on three exhibitions annually across two adjoining galleries at the Museum through 2030. In March 2026, the inaugural exhibition will present eight decades worth of drawings, paintings, and sculpture spanning the career of...

Guild Hall celebrates the creative legacy of Robert Rauschenberg with a special book talk and discussion marking the release of I Don’t Think About Being Great—a new collection of Rauschenberg’s writings published for the first time. While Rauschenberg is best known for his boundary-defying work as a painter where he utilized an array of styles, materials, and techniques, this...

Artists and brothers Steven and William Ladd brought their National Scrollathon to LongHouse Reserve on October 25th. The East Hampton community participated in art-making workshops, allowing their creativity to flow and producing a variety of pieces that will be assembled into a single, permanent artwork.

Earlier this month, the Southampton Arts Center celebrated the opening of its Second Skin exhibition, curated by the Latin American art scholar Estrellita B. Brodsky. The exhibition highlights the significance of clothing as a powerful medium for crafting identity, expressing gender and cultural difference, and advancing political activism. It features approximately 30 works by international artists and designers...

This past summer, the Parrish Art Museum welcomed more than 720 guests to its annual benefit, Midsummer Gala: Echoes of the Cosmos. The highly anticipated gala was held throughout the museum's galleries, terraces, and iconic meadows and raised nearly $1.4 million for the museum's exhibitions, education initiatives, and programming. The evening brought together artists, collectors, curators, philanthropists, and...

East Hampton Historical Society hosted their 9th Annual Summer Design Luncheon on Thursday, August 7th at 11 a.m. at the Maidstone Club (50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton). This year’s Summer Design Luncheon presented guest speaker, acclaimed Interior Designer, Marshall Watson, who discussed his new book, Designing Elegance. 

Sag Harbor's history is black history. The story is not new. Thanks to the newly founded Hamptons Black Art Council and exhibitions like MAMI WATA through SUPERPOSITION gallery, Sag Harbor’s past, present, and future are preserved in its entirety, making space for and highlighting the lives of Black people in history and today.