Barbara Kruger's immersive, dizzying installation at the Museum of Modern Art is an explosion of black-and-white text about truth, power, belief, doubt, and desire.

Grenning Gallery is selling prints to benefit a teaching facility for underserved communities, printmaking workshops are coming to The Church in Sag Harbor, and a new group show is at Sara Nightingale.

Although the new Sant Ambroeus in East Hampton has opened only recently, it has hit the ground running with a winning formula of food, service, and atmosphere that it employs in several restaurants in the United States and Milan.

Exotic ingredients abound on the New Year's Eve menus at the 1770 House, Nick and Toni's, Rowdy Hall, and Almond.

A range of holiday offerings from Tutto il Giorno, K Pasa, Carissa's Bakery, Luigi's Italian Specialties, and, farther afield, Insatiable Eats in Riverhead and Canoe Place Inn in Hampton Bays, plus a Springs Brewery pop-up in Sagaponack.

A house at 668 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike was already engulfed in flames by the time firefighters reached the scene on Saturday night.

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Repairs and upgrades are underway at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, its executive director, Molly Tuzil, announced this week.

Sunday is the first night of Hanukkah and the community is invited to a menorah lighting on the Hook Mill Green at 3:30 p.m. The second candle will be kindled on Monday at 5 p.m. There will be Hanukkah songs and treats for children both nights, and more fun planned throughout the week.

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will host an Artist and Artisan Holiday Market of handmade creations by local residents on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5.

The South Fork’s L.G.B.T.Q.+ community is celebrating President Biden’s signing on Tuesday of the Respect for Marriage Act, a new, bipartisan law that protects the marriages of same-sex couples across the country.

In a move that surprised many people, last week the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works removed about 35 arborvitae, each anywhere between 20 and 30 feet tall, that separated Herrick Park from the Douglas E. Dayton Arboretum, the 3.2 acres at the end of Muchmore Lane that was purchased by the Town of East Hampton starting in 2017 with community preservation fund money.

The East Hampton Town Board this week revealed some details and a prospective timeline for a contentious plan to build an estimated $75 million sewage treatment plant in Hither Woods to serve parts of Montauk.

Environmental consultants from the firm AKRF gave a detailed accounting of the environmental review process now taking off at East Hampton Airport at the town board’s work session on Tuesday.

As if playing a game of environmental football, Cornell Cooperative Extension scientists are hoping to intercept a large underground plume of ammonia in groundwater in Springs before it reaches the end zone — Accabonac Harbor.

Antisemitism has been amplified lately by celebrities who use social media to perpetuate hateful speech, and hate crimes against Jews are again on the rise. On the South Fork, antisemitism is being met head-on with action by religious leaders and lay people alike.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals held a heated public hearing last week on an application by Farrell Builders to demolish a beach cottage, unchanged since the early 1970s, and construct a new house at 175 Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals held a heated public hearing last week on an application by Farrell Builders to demolish a beach cottage, unchanged since the early 1970s, and construct a new house at 175 Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett.

Suffolk County has unveiled a revamped system of bus routes aimed at strengthening people’s ability to take the bus to work, with longer operating hours, service seven days a week, and more stops at train stations and employment hubs across the county.

The Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee would like to see streetlights added to the hamlet's commercial district from Indian Wells Highway to Atlantic Avenue, but it's a pricy proposition and one the East Hampton Town Board has yet to endorse.