HIFF focuses on caddies, Montauk Library celebrates female composers, Brazilian jazz at SAC, chamber music at Perlman

Solo shows at Duck Creek and Drawing Room, new gallery in Amagansett, big show in Sag Harbor church, Frank Wimberley in Chelsea, much more

“Framing John DeLorean” will be screened by the Hamptons International Film Festival on June 8 at Guild Hall. Distributed by Sundance Selects, it will open in limited release in theaters and video on demand on Friday, June 7.

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, affectionately known as the Art Barge, has announced its summer classes, which will begin Monday with studio painting.

A distillation of Tony Oursler's "Tear of the Cloud" projections at Riverside Park in October will soon manifest itself at Guild Hall. "Water Memory" will be a museumwide exhibition devoted to the theme of water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history.

Noel Coward’s 1930 play "Private Lives" is a tricky one. Written in three feverish days in a Shanghai hotel while Coward was bedridden with the flu, it has a sparky energy that’s laced with cruelty.

“Picturing Old East Hampton: The Beginnings of an Art Colony” will open the Gardiner Mill Cottage Gallery on June 7.

Ernst August Ebsen of Montauk, affectionately known as Cookie Man, died on May 9 at the Southampton Care Center soon after a long visit from his wife and daughter. He was 88 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

The Star’s hunter-gatherer, Durell Godfrey, wishes everyone a safe start of the summer season. While you’re at it, she suggests you shop locally and drive carefully. Enjoy yourself, keep calm, and carry on.
 

It was May 1779 off the Connecticut coastline. Edward Conkling, the captain of the privateer sloop Eagle was cruising off Stonington, perhaps looking for another ship to capture to aid the rebel patriots’ war effort, when the Eagle was taken by a Loyalist ship.

     Miami Project, the southern arm of artMRKT Productions, which has brought the artMRKT Hamptons fair to Bridgehampton in July for the past three years, is new in its second year in Miami’s midtown district and reported on Tuesday that it was doing well after its opening.

     Eric Firestone, whose eponymous gallery on Newtown Lane shows local and international artists, is the sole

   This is the week lucky artists and dealers fly or drive south to attend the fairs and events of what has become Miami's official art week.

    If you are looking for a mini invitational show where small works by familiar artists can be had for reasonable prices, Ille Arts is a good place to visit.

    Sara de Luca's intimate gallery is bursting with drawings, paintings, and sculptures in a show that includes work from artists who showed at the gallery during the year as well as other local and not so local artists of inte

     Although a few years ago South Fork dealers were mostly scarce at Art Miami, this year the four galleries that particpated were some of the busiest booths at the fair.

    Even stuck in traffic for hours at a time, there was no shortage of things to look at during Art Basel week in Miami. Public sculpture, music, and murals took the art to the streets as well as in the booths.

    Fairs on the beach or across from the street made news this year. UNTITLED returned from its premiere last year with twice the size and space. East Hampton's Halsey Mckay gallery was there and Hilary Schaffner said the crowds were consistent as were sales. Many booths took their cue from the tropical sun and had a day-glo color palette.

     Those who did not make it to Art Basel Miami Beach's vernissage on Wedenesday night flocked to the fair on Thursday for its public opening.

   The UNTITLED fair in Miami Beach had a successful preview on Monday night with a few faces familiar to the South Fork making the scene and making news, according to a press release from the fair.

   The preview was hosted by Marina Abramovic, who is collaborating with Robert Wilson on “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic” to be presented at the Park Avenue Armory beginning Dec.

     If it wasn't for the boots, scarves, furs, and hats on display at Tripoli Gallery on Saturday night, one might have thought it was August again from the warm and sunny art on the walls.

     Darius Yektai, taking a break from the dark and brooding works he is known for, spent two weeks in Umbria last summer, traispsing around Montecastello di Vibio with paints and canvases on his

     On Thursday night, intrepid East End artists made it into New York City to celebrate an opening of their work.