Cerberus was later getting into the water than I had expected this year.

This column debuted exactly two years ago this week. I’m trying to think of what has changed in those two years.

So where, exactly, is the popular will most manifestly expressed?

Close to the day in which we are to celebrate the document that almost 250 years ago asserted our unity in opposition to tyranny, we find ourselves confronting it again.

The summer of 1977, the summer of Son of Sam, brought trauma and fear, and the poison of trauma doesn’t just go away.

New real estate transfers.

Moira and Robert Booth of New Hyde Park and Southold have announced the engagement of their daughter, Katelyn Barbara Booth, to David Charles McGinnis Boak, a son of Kathleen and Charles Boak of Amagansett and New York City.

Works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, and other stars of the 20th-century South Fork art community achieved some of the highest bids in Phillips auction house's live sale of prints and multiples in Southampton on Saturday.

Following an extended period of time in which the air conditioning units were out-of-service, Molly Tuzil, the executive director of the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter, said in an email to members that new, temporary A.C. units are to be installed on Thursday.

Laurie Anderson, in residence at the Elaine de Kooning House, talks about the joys (and anxieties) of painting, her big show at the Hirshhorn Museum, her involvement with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and hiking in East Hampton.

Hamptons Jazz Fest and Jazz at Lincoln Center will bring Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the Southampton Arts Center.

A "docusoap" promises to show the real Hamptons of locals vs. "cidiots," but falls back on typical reality-TV tropes.

Mike Birbiglia, a comedian, director, and actor, will perform five nights of comedy at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor from July 11 through July 16.

The Caroline Davis Quartet will perform in the summer music series at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday at 5 p.m. The ensemble features Ms. Davis on saxophone, Julian Shore on piano, Chris Tordini on bass, and Chad Taylor on guitar.

The Parrish's Jasper Johns print show focuses on how his personal themes and imagery have informed his printmaking, and it offers a compelling complement to his Whitney and Philadelphia retrospectives.

Kenny Scharf's paintings of cartoonish faces and fantastical creatures will take over the Phillips auction house in Southampton.

A new exhibition at The Church in Sag Harbor highlights tapestry, weaving, embroidery, quilting, and other fiber practices informed by ideas from contemporary art.

The theme running through East Hampton High School's graduation ceremony this year was that of caring for one's mental health, as has been a focus at the school for many years now. More than 200 seniors earned diplomas on Friday in a celebration filled with smiles, laughter, and cheers. Here are some scenes from the joy-filled evening.

Seventy-one seniors graduated from Pierson High School on Saturday in a ceremony filled with all the pomp-and-circumstance that a traditional Whaler ceremony entails, including the "alma mater" school song, cap-toss at the top of Pierson Hill, and wise remarks from a speaker prominent in the Sag Harbor community.

American Modernists at Bernard Goldberg, craft at Hauser & Wirth, energy flux at Pace, Jennifer Bartlett at Drawing Room, Robert Harms at Madoo, Rudolph Serra at Borghi, nature, water, street art, animals, and more