Try this exercise. Think of your favorite book. Picture its cover, where you were when you read it, what it meant to you. Now: can you remember the first line? The Southampton Library posed that question to patrons and visitors recently through the display “Whose Line is it Anyway?”. Designed
The summer of 1974 had a lasting impact on Ruth Appelhof. An art history student at the time, she also found herself the house guest of Lee Krasner in Springs, Long Island. Armed with typewriter and tape recorder, Ruth hoped to learn more about Krasner’s art and life through a
Last night the Southampton Library hosted Dr. Charles A. Riley, director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, as part of our annual Art in Focus lecture series. The topic was the exhibition now running at the museum, That 80s Show, Rebel with a Cause: The Extravagant Eighties as Envisioned
The Watermill Center, which lies some twenty minutes east of the Southampton campus, was founded in 1992 as a space to foster and incubate the work of artists across a range of endeavors. It is the vision of theater director and artist Robert Wilson, who took a rundown former Western
We had a great turnout to our annual semester-ending visit from our therapy dog friends courtesy of CAPS and PALS. This year’s stress-relief was provided by Lucy and Cory. As finals are winding down for some (but not all) of our graduate programs out here in Southampton, it was great
If you were living in a small town on Long Island 200 years ago, the place to be would have been the local windmill. That’s where people gathered to grind their flour but also to gossip and catch up on the news of the day. The miller would have been
The Southampton Library wrapped up its fall Art in Focus lecture series with Elena Prohaska Glinn speaking about The Beat Scene (Reel Art Press). This book presents photographs taken by her late husband, Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. The photos capture the burgeoning Beat movement between 1957 and 1960 on the
Six women were speaking as Mary Gabriel gave her Art in Focus lecture last night at the Southampton campus library. Gabriel, the author of Ninth Street Women, was telling the lives of five artists who navigated the exhilarating, exhausting, and ecstatic post-World War II art world in New York City
We kicked off the fall Art in Focus series in Southampton this past Tuesday with a murder mystery. What if you took one of the most iconic accidents in Long Island history and wove it into a larger plot – one of murder, secrets, and modern art? That’s the
We’ve got a new display up in the library highlighting the fascinating diversity of wildlife in and around Shinnecock Bay. From underwater to the skies above, it’s a rich and diverse ecosystem that never ceases to amaze. The photographs in the display come courtesy of Chris Paparo. Chris is the
