Spinning a
Global Tapestry
By Janet Goleas
Jack Lenor Larsen’s initiation to visual culture was colored by the Asian aesthetic characterizing much of the Pacific Northwest.

Amy Irving: ‘A Perfect Fit’
By Kate Maier
After an extensive renovation of one of East Hampton’s most beloved spaces, the curtains will rise on Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater for a three-week run that begins on Wednesday.

Opinion
Hedda Sterne’s Portrait Drawings
By Jennifer Landes
Back in an era of modernist absolutes, Hedda Sterne seems to have created her own contradictions.

Marsha Norman Kicks Off Writers Conference
The Southampton Writers Conference, sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton’s M.F.A. in writing and literature program, will take place this summer from Wednesday through Aug. 2.

LONG ISLAND BOOKS
The Afflicted Mr. Apple
By Hilma Wolitzer
If you think Job had problems, you haven’t met Simon Apple, the beleaguered hero of Harvey Jacobs’s madcap cautionary tale of corporate greed, “Side Effects.”

Van Gogh’s Furred Familiar
It isn’t every day that an artist, or anyone, for that matter, gets to indulge three loves at once.

HAMPTON LIBRARY
Fridays at Five: Authors a-Go-Go
During July and August, the Friends of the Hampton Library will present its popular series Fridays at Five, in which authors will read from their latest books and participate in a question-and-answer exchange.

The Art Scene
By Elise D’Haene