Item of the Week: Paintings at Ashawagh Hall, Summer 1955
Victor D'Amico's Art Barge began as a pilot program of classes sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, seen here.
Kids Culture for July 11, 2024
The Art Barge on Napeague, a nonprofit institute formally also known as the D’Amico Institute of Art, continues Victor and Mabel D’Amico’s tradition of the Children’s Art Carnival this summer in weeklong sessions. Plus: Story time, puppet shows, children's museum fair, arts and crafts, yoga for toddlers, and more coming up for kids and teens.
Treasures and Lessons in Trash
Since age 4, Ryder Nadel and his father have spent endless hours roaming dunes and shorelines collecting the garbage that harms the marine animals Ryder loves. Some of his finds are now on display in an exhibition at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, where he has been a camper in the summer program for the last three years.
Algae Bloom in Montauk's Fort Pond
After noting sharp spikes in dissolved oxygen levels at a test site on Fort Pond in Montauk last week, Concerned Citizens of Montauk again tested water at the site this week and detected the first toxic blue-green algae bloom of the season in the pond.