Archive for the ‘North Fork (other than Greenport)’ Category

DISPATCH – May 12, 2012 (1:24 p.m.) HAMPTONS, NY This weekend feels like the hush before the storm of art openings. The next two weekends will be flush with new art shows, new galleries and openings. There’s still plenty of art to see, right now. Here are some ideas of where to find it. HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY in East Hampton is launching [...]

DISPATCH – Mar 3, 2012 (9:52 a.m.) Southampton, NY There’s something about the ocean and it’s partnering with sandy shores that invokes fantasies of chasing adventures lying beyond the horizon and staying still to enjoy the soothing vista. Photography by Patti Courville manages to channel both wishes into works that present findings from a personal search for meaning [...]

DISPATCH – November 29, 2011 (7:08 p.m.) North Fork, NY and Miami, FL Waving a flag to draw attention is a time-tested tradition. Hoisting a sail to encourage tolerance and embrace differences may be on the way to becoming one. The fifth incarnation of “The Ship of Tolerance” takes to the waterways of Miami this week in [...]

DISPATCH – November 6, 2011 (Sunday; 4:30 p.m.) Riverhead, NY There’s a cabinet against a wall at Art Sites that marks the divide between the contemporary art gallery and the architecture firm, Studio a/b. The married pair of architects, Hideaki Ariizumi and Glynis M. Berry, head both. Each of the cabinet’s four shelves holds a single cast bronze sculpture. On top of the cabinet is a single sculpture of blown glass swaddled with mesh [...]