A New Gallery,
A Russian Artist
The Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art Gallery has opened at 28 Job’s Lane in Southampton and is showing the works of Henry Bing, Richard Ericson, James Knox, Charles Levier, and Abraham Rattner and featuring the paintings of Nahum Tschacbasov. The gallery has another space on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, which is showing large-format works by Tschacbasov.
Born in Paris and feeling uprooted once her family immigrated to New York, Ms. Bigar, in her own words, “experienced a second birth, a new independence, self-belief, and the opening up of my world through my studies of art.”
The recent rave is the tropical look for our gardens, get out and get under the continent, go south, enthuse the pundits, quite forgetting that the gardener up north has always enjoyed the tender and the cosseted.
Packing a whip and a six-shooter, the musical comedy “Destry Rides Again” arrives at LTV Studios for a three-night stand beginning next Thursday.
The MTK: Music to Know Festival has announced the daily lineup of performers for the shows on Aug. 13 and 14, and a limited number of one-day tickets are on sale.
On Aug. 13, the performers will be Vampire Weekend, Matt and Kim, Tame Impala, M. Ward, Tom Tom Club, We Are Scientists, Francis and the Lights, Suddyn, and Nicos Gun.
On Aug. 14, Bright Eyes, Cold War Kids, Chromeo, Ra Ra Riot, Dawes, Fitz and the Tantrums, the Naked and Famous, the Limousines, and the Young Empires will perform.
The Hamptons International Film Festival will launch a Summer Sunday Classics series this week at Solé East in Montauk.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the resort will serve a casual barbecue and cocktails for purchase, with a free outdoor screening after sunset. This week’s movie is “To Catch a Thief” with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. The 1955 thriller is set on the French Riviera with breathtaking scenery and car chases, all in Technicolor.
The Westhampton Beach Performing Art Center has announced its lineup for the 2011 summer season, including an appearance by...
If I had to do it all over again (and I just might — why should Hindus have all the fun?) I would come back as a...
New Gallery on Newtown
Tomorrow the Halsey McKay Gallery will open its new space at 105 Newtown Lane with a show of paintings by Patrick Brennan titled “There Is an Ocean.”
Hilary Schaffner and Ryan Wallace, both of whom have had curatorial experience in New York City, are running the gallery. Mr. Wallace is also a painter. The two met in art class 20 years ago and have remained friends and now will be business partners in this new venture.
On Sunday afternoon the Chamber Players of the Southampton Cultural Center presented the fifth annual Composers of the East End concert, featuring...
Mysteries and Connections In Artist’s Montauk WorksHeinz Emil Salloch has the kind of unlikely story one does not encounter every day. He was a refugee from Nazi Germany because he refused to...
Steve Haweeli at Outeast
Steve Haweeli’s paintings are on view in a solo show, “Excavations,” at the Outeast Gallery in Montauk.
I thought she would not stay nor last, part of last month and this one, in hospital watching foul weather settle over a Southampton neighborhood painted over and over by...
Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor has announced both its Mainstage and All-Star Comedy Club events for this summer, its 20th season.
Who plants a tree is generous, they say, but it can be a selfish act, a smug one, one that is a plea for praise, an act of no little tyranny to put in place a monster, an enormous caster of shade, a green monument not unlike a great temple or a hall devoted to...
The Art Scene - 04.21.11Grooving at Ashawagh
“Art Groove,” an exhibit at Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend, will feature the work of 12 contemporary artists organized by Geralyne Lewandowski. The show will include her work, along with art by Michael McDowell, Siv Cedering, Brian Flynn, Claudia Dunn, Debbi Fritz, Laurette Kovary, Joyce Riamondo, Robert Rosenbaum, Joe Strand, Ursula Thomas, and Kris Warrenburg.
Seeing ‘The Big Picture’ at MoMAIt has become trite to say that an art exhibit is revelatory, but when a show like the Museum of Modern Art’s “Abstract-Expressionist New York: The Big Picture” comes along and manages to debunk the very history and assumptions that the museum has encouraged...
Rose Quilt Show at Armory DazzlesWho is to say what can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary? Certainly vision helps, and when three visionary entities join forces it is bound to cause a commotion. When the source of the marvel is a common everyday object, it makes for an even greater spectacle.
A Genius for Visual LanguageOne of art’s sharpest, most dedicated personalities, Lee Krasner (1908-1984) was fiercely determined to produce paintings that pushed the envelope, and she was fiercely devoted to the work and career of her husband, Jackson Pollock.
On Saturday at 4 p.m. Alec Baldwin will bring the words of Mark Twain to life in a reading of “Huckleberry Finn” at BookHampton’s East Hampton shop.
Adults and children are invited to participate in the event, which the store said is designed to introduce classic literature to kids and serve as a reintroduction to adults, who will understand these books from a different perspective than when they were first introduced to them, a store representative said.
A Funny Ride to the Go-Go ’80sWhile the 1989 play touches on themes that were similarly resonant at the end of that decade’s go-go market, it almost seems innocent in the face of the complexities of today’s financial market machinations.