Barbara Anne Sullivan was a fan of the arts. "She took great joy in her home and had a distinctive flair for design," her family said. An enthusiastic reader, she "surrounded herself with beautiful books" and also enjoyed spending time in her garden in Montauk. But "most of all," her family wrote, "she loved traveling and living all over the world with her husband of 64 years, Jim."

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday updated the official Covid-19 policies for schools, aligning the state with recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control. Notable among the changes is a relaxing of quarantine rules and testing requirements.

James Howard Sweeney, who worked as a cinematographer, gaffer, best boy, and props man in the film industry in California for many years, died in his sleep on June 13 at home in Brooklyn.

Sophie Chahinian, founder of the Artist Profile Archive, and Robert Longo, an artist, filmmaker, and musician, were joined by 100 guests on May 21 for a traditional Armenian wedding ceremony followed by a reception and seated dinner at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.  

In this winning debut, a father drops the ball with his bequeathal, and his daughter searches for answers.

East Hampton Village will soon be home to an enormous platinum bull, in the form of an art installation by the sculptor Enrique Cabrera that will graze for a time in Herrick Park.

Over the summer, 20 more students living in Springs enrolled at East Hampton High School, which means that the Springs School District may be called upon to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more on tuition than it anticipated.

Adults, teens, and kids have two opportunities coming up to explore the world around them — and above them.

Nicholas LaLota, the chief of staff to the Republican majority in the Suffolk County Legislature, is now the Republican Party nominee to represent New York's First Congressional District. He will face the Democrat Bridget Fleming, a county legislator, in the general election.

“Lots of weakfish are around, plus there are porgies, blowfish, fluke, sea bass, snappers, kingfish, and even some black drum being caught,” reports Sebastian Gorgone of Mrs. Sam’s Tackle in East Hampton.

Sergey Avramenko, 37, of Hampton Bays, Jenny Grimshaw, 31, of San Francisco, and her mother, Judi Donnelly, 65, of Southampton and Wellesley, Mass., the first among breast cancer survivors, were winners at the 27th Ellen’s Run in Southampton Sunday to benefit the Ellen Hermanson Foundation. Another worthy organization, Hoops 4 Hope, benefited from a pleasing turnout at its inaugural 3-on-3 basketball tournament at East Hampton High School Saturday.

The Town Police Benevolent Association squad had high hopes going into the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league final with the pennant-winner — and defending playoff champion — East End Land Planning, but the P.B.A.’s forward movement was arrested in the end.

Leif Hope has always painted his Artists team as devil-may-care when it comes to winning and losing and the Writers as self-loathing loners obsessed with winning, and so, in the end, at the 74th meeting of the rivals at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Saturday afternoon, all went according to form as the Writers, who had trailed 18-2 — yes, 18-2 — entering the bottom of the ninth inning, wound up winning in storybook fashion 19-18.

There's no Montauk Project biopic -- yet, anyway -- but it's safe to say that the festival circuit is within its reach, and they're making all the right moves to get there.

"Indian Summer," Bay Street Theater's intern-run show, is a romantic comedy directed by Cameron King. Her father, Don Roy King, an acclaimed television director, has come out of retirement to play the role of the lead actor's grandfather, his first acting gig in 53 years.

Andy Aledort, a singer, songwriter, and guitar hero, will celebrate the release of his new double album at LTV Studios.

The Church in Sag Harbor will hold a panel with performance about preserving the natural world, plus talks by four fiber artists, and a conversation about art, textiles, and fashion by two gallerists.

Kyle Barisich, a Broadway singer and actor, has for two years hosted Bay Street Theater's online singalong, Sip & Sing, which included special guests from the world of musical theater.

Southampton Arts Center will host the Brazilian Jazz All-Stars, a festival of short documentary films, and a Summerfest benefit party.

William Agee on American Cubism, street artist in LongHouse talk, quilt exhibition in Water Mill, a plethora of solo gallery shows, a talk about John Chamberlain, four artists in Sagaponack group show