Opinion
So Many Grains of Meaning at the Parrish
By Jennifer Landes
Living, summering, or just visiting a beach community, one often takes sand for granted. Pleasant to walk on, lie in, and make castles with, once it is off the beach it is less welcome. But not in the case of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, which has an exhibit celebrating the material and its implied themes on view through mid-September.
Turning the Surfboard Into a Canvas
By Russell Drumm
“I’m spilling life,” Billy Hamilton said, beaming and peering down at the bits of lobster meat his Hawaiian print shirt had collected during a feast on Saturday at the Montauk residence of Chuck Weimar, Mr. Hamilton’s neighbor on the north shore of Kauai during the winter months.
Innovative Public Art ‘to Trip Over’ in Springs
By Jess Frost
Anne Pasternak, the curator of the Fireplace Project’s upcoming exhibit “Intimacy,” is the president and artistic director of one of New York’s most innovative public art organizations, Creative Time.
Opinion
Tone Poems to Flowing Rubatos
By Thomas Bohlert
Pianofest’s concerts of the great classical repertoire by up-and-coming artists with spirited commentary on the music and performances by its director, Paul Schenly, have earned it a niche among the summer musical festivals on the South Fork. Behind the scenes, Pianofest matches auditioned conservatory and college students with a distinguished faculty in two four-week sessions.
Opinion
Channeling Fats Waller
By Michael Howell
As the cast of five talented singers moved about the stage of the Bay Street Theatre’s new production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” it became increasingly clear that there was a sixth character in this production — Thomas (Fats) Waller, the man whose music inspired this lively yet moody musical revue.
LONG ISLAND BOOKS
“Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen”
Sidney Offit
Review by David M. Alpern
When an editor at The Star proposed this review of a new Sidney Offit memoir, I had to tell him I knew the author, usually ran into him at one or two parties every year, maybe played tennis with him once. No problem, I was told; everybody knows everybody in the Hamptons.
The Art Scene
By Janet Goleas