On Monday night, Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor celebrated its third Spring Honors event at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The event feted Bonnie Comley, Stewart Lane, Pia Zankel and Jimmy Zankel. Scott Schwartz, the theater’s artistic director served as host. The event also showcased the upcoming season of theatrical presentations at the venue. These include new productions such as “Art and Resolution” and “Conviction” and “Travesties,” a comedy by Tom Stoppard.
Works by artists with East End associations such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Robert Gober, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Prince were part of the stars of Christie’s record-breaking $745 million Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale on Tuesday night. East Hampton’s Larry Gagosian won Warhol's "Race Riot," (see E-catalogue here) for $62.9 million, a final price that includes the buyer’s premium (beginning at 25 percent that scales downward as the hammer price increases).
The Southold resident was chosen by Ned Smyth and paired with Rick Liss. In that context Mr. Kurita's photographs were a fitting foil to Mr. Smyth's minimalist organic sculpture and photographs of it.
Hopes and excitement ran even higher this year for the Guild Hall members show, an annual event that brings the South Fork artistic community together for one of the largest exhibitions in the region and the only non-juried show. More than 470 artists submitted work to be placed on the walls of Guild Hall’s three main galleries with the hope of being recognized by Robert Storr, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art and the dean of the Yale School of Art. Mr. Storr selected William S.
