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Main Articles - “Eyes on the Natural World,” which brings together six diverse contemporary painters and photographers with seven botanical and landscape artists from the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th Century at the Drawing Room Gallery is a thoughtful and skillfully mounted exhibit running until Jan. 31.

Main Articles - Inaugurating its renovated Moran and Spiga Galleries, and drawing as well on its large activity room in the Boots Lamb Education Center, Guild Hall has mounted an inspired and inspiring educational outreach art show that celebrates, once again, the fine arts creativity of East End school children and the imagination of their teachers, by showcasing student art at all levels from public and private schools in East Hampton Township.

Main Articles - Figurative painter Daniel L. Malisky never thought he’d remain unknown. “I always felt something was going to happen with my paintings,” Malisky confessed. After 28 years as an accountant for the post office, it wasn’t until he retired seven years ago did this clandestine artist begin making up for a lifetime of suppressed work. During that period, he painted over 200 pieces some hang on the walls of his Central Park West apartment, others canvas his Southampton home.

Main Articles - In the spirit of what used to be called Indian Summer, the Silas Marder Gallery’s attractive barn show of eight artists, painters and sculptors called "Countryside" is fun and fanciful and runs through Nov. 20.

Main Articles - To judge from what’s going on in the expanded studio space across from her Main Street gallery, Laura Grenning has resolved with the new year to ensure that the classical methods of the Old Masters that have defined Grenning exhibits for the last ten years have greater presence in Sag Harbor.

Main Articles - Now into its seventh year, the Friday Night Winter Lectures Series instituted by The East Hampton Historical Society “to get folks together” during the cold off-season months, as EHHS Executive Director Richard Barons puts it, certainly fulfilled its mission recently when it was standing room only at East Hampton’s Clinton Academy.

Main Articles - The Parrish Art Museum draws from over 40 North and South Fork schools, public and private, in the townships of Riverhead, Southampton, and Southold for its annual school art festival. There are so many collaborative projects that it’s impossible to say how many youngsters are involved.

Main Articles - Everyone’s going to want to touch something in this dazzling exhibit of earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain objects d’art fired to perfection. The pieces are that invitingly tactile. But as co-owner and potter Bob Bachler notes with a knowing smile, the gallery’s not called Surface for nothing.

Main Articles - What a serendipitous pairing of artists at this lovely Newtown Lane gallery, whose name is meant to evoke the informal space reserved for talking in salons of centuries past. The past is very much part of this double show but referenced with a distinct 21st century spirit.

Main Articles - The first ArtHamptons International Fine Art Fair began its four-day launch with an opening night gala and collector's preview held on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Historical Society on Thursday, July 10, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. According to President, Founder, and Executive Director of ArtHamptons, Richard Friedman, this exhibition offers “$100 million in art that is available for purchase.”

Main Articles - “The Joys of Toys” runs through Mar. 29 at the Rogers Mansion, part of the Southampton Historical Museum and Research Center.

Main Articles - “Love and Passion”, which will be on display at Ashawagh Hall in the Springs on Feb. 16 - 17, continues the tradition of observing the legacy of Valentine in art while also reaffirming its own recent tradition, an annual observance in honor of erotica and exotica.

Main Articles - You would think that one extremely successful and creative career was enough for Dan Klores. But no, he had to go out and become one of the best documentary filmmakers around. His latest effort, “Black Magic,” will be shown on ESPN in two-hour blocks this Sunday and Monday, Mar. 16 and 17.

Main Articles - East End artists have always been able to find unconventional spaces to exhibit their work - stores, restaurants, banks, establishments of all kinds, a few pictures here, some sculptures there. Currently on display at Prudential Douglas Elliman in Amagansett is a showing of work by East Hampton artist Salvatore Gulla.

Main Articles - The “World’s First Exhibition And Sale of the New Genre In Art And Design” - Steampunk - held its opening Saturday, August 16, at the Hamptons Antique Gallery, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Conceived by Art Donovan of Donovan Design in Southampton and curated by both Art and Leslie Donovan the exhibition features the works of several national and international artists.

Main Articles - A special benefit documentary film screening of "Thread" will be held at the Bay Street Theatre on Long Wharf on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m., hosted by The Business Council for Peace (Bpeace). All tickets must be purchased in advance.

Main Articles - A well-known authority on contemporary art, Klaus Kertess, in collaboration with Edsel Williams, assembled 11 artists - most of them friends, all of them with a connection to the East End, many, full-time Hamptons residents - with a view to presenting “a range of artists” and a show that would fill out each wall in the former Talmage garage as a unit of design.

Main Articles - The save-the-date card that went out announcing the June 21 annual Artists Against Abuse gala exhibition and benefit auction features one of Dan Rizzie’s signature birds, a robin perhaps, a harbinger of spring, still in voice at the start of summer. Rizzie sees to that, surrounding his bird with playful green curlicues and letters, an ideal symbol for the mission of The Retreat, “Where violence ends and hope begins.”

Main Articles - “Collection 2008: New Painting and Sculpture,” an exhibit of 17 oil paintings and two pieces in concrete by Jeff Muhs, testifies not to an abandonment of Muhs’ earlier preferences but to an evolving sense of his deepening “passion” for color and form, as these are evocative of a more subtle way of seeing the natural world.

Main Articles - This past Saturday, artist, writer, and musician Haim Mizrahi held the opening reception for exhibit, “Begetting.” The exhibit featured examples of all the mediums Mizrahi engages in - from a book of his poetry and one of his recent C.D.'s - Mizrahi is an accomplished drummer, treating guests on opening night to an improvised drum performance.