FEATURESHAMPTONS Ellsworth Kelly Is Strong Link Connecting Guild Hall to Austin Art Scene by Andrew Botsford When it comes to planning trips, timing can be at least as important a consideration as the destination. Both were on the mind of...
FEATURESEastern Suffolk County Peeling Apart the Meanings of “It’s a Sign” in a Four-in-One Exhibition by Andrew Botsford Even the briefest conversation with Mark Van Wagner quickly demonstrates two things: The first is his passionate interest in signs and...
EVENTSHAMPTONS Documentary Film Festival Expands and Adds Awards to Mark 10th Anniversary by Andrew Botsford Marking the 10th anniversary of its founding this year, the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival is expanding to five days of...
HAMPTONS Film Festival Opens Windows for Everyone into Jewish Life and Culture by Andrew Botsford When Tina Silverman was 8 years old, a friend’s young mother showed her a string of numbers tattooed on her arm in a concentration...
NEWSPublic ArtNEW YORK CITY “Van Gogh’s Ear” Is Coming to Rockefeller Center April 13, 2016 by Andrew Botsford There have to be a lot of considerations when artists choose the title for a Public Art Fund sculpture installation. Consider, for...
NEWSObituaryMiami Martin Taplin, Early Art Basel Miami Supporter, Is Dead at 77 by Andrew Botsford Hotelier Martin “Marty” Taplin, one of the initial supporters of Art Basel Miami Beach who was credited by many with helping the...
NEWSObituaryHAMPTONS Painter Ralph Carpentier, a Man for All Seasons, Dies at 87 by Andrew Botsford Artist Ralph Carpentier, a longtime resident of Springs, died Friday, February 19, 2016 at the New York State Veterans Home in Oxford,...
EVENTSHAMPTONS Lorin Stein and Dan Menaker In Conversation for Spring Writers Speak Wednesdays by Andrew Botsford Renowned Paris Review editor Lorin Stein and former New Yorker fiction editor, author, and professor Dan Menaker will talk about...
NEWSHAMPTONS Directors Launch Kickstarter to Fund “What Is Love?” Documentary by Andrew Botsford Quick question: Without consulting the internet, any idea what the most frequently Googled question was in 2011, 2012, and 2014? It...
NEWSHAMPTONS John Berg, Legendary Album Cover Art Director, Dies at 83 by Andrew Botsford Longtime East Hampton resident John Berg, 83, the award-winning former art director for Columbia Records who oversaw the creation of...
NEWS Miriam Schapiro, Known for Feminism and Pattern and Decoration, Dies at 91 by Andrew Botsford Miriam Schapiro, an internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor and printmaker who was at the forefront of the feminist art movement...
Dan Rizzie Looks to His Past to Get Started on His Future by Andrew Botsford Artist Dan Rizzie searched for the right term to describe the publication this spring of his new monograph, Dan Rizzie by University...
Athos Zacharias: Driven To Explore Frontiers of Artistic Expression by Andrew Botsford At 88, painter Athos Zacharias has the energy and enthusiasm for artistic exploration of a man one quarter his age. Clad in a striped...
NEWS Jane Wilson, Painter of Luminous Landscapes, Is Dead at 90 by Andrew Botsford The painter Jane Wilson—one of the last surviving members of the celebrated group of artists and writers who gravitated in the early...
NEWSHAMPTONS Jane Freilicher, Who Saw the Poetry in Representation, Is Dead at 90 by Andrew Botsford Jane Freilicher, the Water Mill and New York City painter who broke ranks with the Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s to focus on...
Taking a Camera into the World of the Kabakovs by Andrew Botsford For director Amei Wallach, the screening on September 26, 2014 of her film “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ENTER HERE” at the Parrish...
Kevin Teare: All You Need Is Art by Andrew Botsford For anyone interested in puzzling out the identity of Kevin Teare, there are abundant clues strewn in the path, and most are so...
NEWSMUSEUMSHAMPTONS Record Number of Entries in Annual Artists Members Exhibit at Guild Hall by Andrew Botsford Good news this week for artists and art lovers who count themselves proud members of the modern-day East End art colony: There are a...