Illuminating Latin American Art
By Janet Goleas
A gallerist, curator, and private art consultant, Esperanza Leon is best known for the exhibition venue she founded here in 2001 — Solar Art and Design, where she presides over a lively schedule of shows focused largely, but not exclusively, on Latin American artists.
Hamptons International Film Festival
Twin Sisters’ ‘Twin Lenses’
By Jennifer Landes
“Twin Lenses,” a film by Nina Rosenblum, chronicles the careers of identical-twin sisters who found success and acclaim in the world of photography. Kathryn Abbe, who is executive producer of the 30-minute documentary, is one of the sisters and lives in Montauk.
‘THE WINDMILL MOVIE’
Spinning Out a Wainscott Life
By Regina Weinreich
If you had asked Richard P. Rogers, a documentary filmmaker and Harvard professor, what he was working on in the 1980s or ’90s, he would have told you: a movie about the place where he grew up, Wainscott. When he died in July 2001, that decades-old project remained in numerous boxes marked “windmill.”
Movies Are Back at Bay Street
By Kate Maier
Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre will once again bring East End film buffs the Picture Show at Bay Street series, which kicked off last Thursday with a screening of “The Women,” starring Joan Crawford. Tickets are $5 for each film unless otherwise noted, and can be purchased at the box office starting one half hour before showtimes. Shows start at 8 p.m.
Amy Ernst: A Renaissance Surrealist
By Jennifer Landes
With parents, a brother, and a grandfather all successful artists, it makes sense when Amy Ernst says she doesn’t want to think too much about artistic influences. If she did, she would barely be able to get past her own house.
“Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone 1964- ”
By Paul Sahre
Review by Maziar Behrooz
Back in 2001, in search of a cheap summer rental, Paul Sahre and his friend Nicholas Blechman stumble upon a simple house in a quirky part of Montauk. What at first seems like another unimpressive ranch reveals a well-thought-out interior with furnishings and appliances intact from the ’60s.
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