Art

Historic house

Fairfield Porter House (exterior view)

Southampton · Abstract Expressionist

The house Fairfield Porter painted from for thirty years, and where Anne Porter wrote her late poems. Still privately held. Worth a slow walk by; the view of the porch is the view in several Porter canvases.

• Private residence; exterior view from sidewalk
• Exterior only

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Hauser and Wirth Southampton

Southampton · Contemporary

The mega-gallery's seasonal Main Street space. Two floors, no appointment needed, the full museum-quality install. Recent summers have shown Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Mike Kelley estate work.

• Free
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JK Art & Design Projects

Southampton · Contemporary

A North Sea Road exhibition space showing art and design together rather than treating them as separate trades. Recent shows include Darcy's World, three decades of the interdisciplinary artist Darcy Miro, alongside Just Kidding and Nomad 2026.

Historic house

Larry Rivers House (exterior view)

Southampton · Abstract Expressionist

Larry Rivers' longtime Southampton house. Rivers painted the garden and the pool; the current owners keep it private. Slow drive-by only.

• Private residence
• Exterior only

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MM Fine Art

Southampton · Contemporary

Mid-career abstract painting, an emphasis on the Lyrical Abstraction group the art market rediscovers every decade. Owner Michael McCloy does careful, unhurried shows.

• Free
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Peter Marcelle Project

Southampton · Contemporary

Project-space model on Jobs Lane. Single-artist installations run four to six weeks; the ambition is higher than the footprint suggests.

• Free
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Ric Michel Fine Art

Southampton · Contemporary

A Jobs Lane gallery showing contemporary artists such as Eduardo Terranova and Andriy Halashyn, with an advisory practice serving residential and hospitality clients.

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Southampton African American Museum

Southampton · Early 20th c.

The old Randy's Barber Shop on North Sea Road, now a small museum telling the under-documented story of Southampton's Black founding families and the Bridge Street community. Rotating shows upstairs.

• Donation
• Wheelchair

Studio

Jane Freilicher Studio (exterior view)

Water Mill · Abstract Expressionist

The Mecox studio Jane Freilicher painted the pond from for five decades. Still privately held; you can see the building and the view that shaped the late canvases from the road.

• Private; exterior view only
• Exterior only

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Parrish Art Museum

Water Mill · Contemporary

The Herzog and de Meuron barn-inspired building holds the definitive collection of East End art, from William Merritt Chase to the living painters still working in the studios next door. Come for the permanent collection, stay for the Friday summer evenings.

• $20 adults, under 18 free
• Wheelchair

Cultural site

Watermill Center

Water Mill · Contemporary

Robert Wilson's interdisciplinary laboratory on an old Western Union relay site. The outdoor sculpture walk is open by appointment year-round; the July benefit brings the international art world to the lawn.

• Donation
• Wheelchair

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Bridgehampton Museum

Bridgehampton · Colonial

The Bridgehampton Museum's headquarters since 1954: the c.1825 Corwith House, the c.1890 wheelwright shop, the c.1900 jail and the barns behind them. The site is closed for now — the Museum shows its art and its farming history up the road at the Nathaniel Rogers House, which is open and free.

• Corwith House site temporarily closed — the Museum is open at the Nathaniel Rogers House, 2539 Montauk Hwy, Wed-Sun 11-5
• Exterior only

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Chase Edwards Contemporary

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

Mid-market contemporary, emphasis on decorative abstraction. Useful as a comparison point for the quieter programs up the street.

• Free
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Children's Museum of the East End

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

Hands-on learning exhibits built around East End food, farming, and fishing. The outdoor dig pit and the lobster-boat mockup are the draws for the under-eights.

• $15 ages 1+
• Wheelchair

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Dan Flavin Art Institute

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

A permanent installation of nine Flavin fluorescent works in a converted firehouse, run by the Dia Art Foundation. The room quiets down fast. Closed in the off season; check the dates before driving out.

• Free

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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

Long-running contemporary program, split between the Chelsea flagship and this Bridgehampton satellite. Strong in color-field abstraction and mid-career women painters.

• Free
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Mark Borghi Fine Art

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

Secondary market Abstract Expressionist and postwar American. The Bridgehampton space runs a quieter program than the Chelsea parent. Worth the stop if you already drove out.

• Free
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South Fork Natural History Museum

Bridgehampton · Contemporary

Small natural history museum with live marine tanks, a butterfly house in summer, and guided walks on the neighboring Long Pond Greenbelt. Useful in a rainy-day slot with kids.

• $10 adults
• Wheelchair

Cultural site

Madoo Conservancy

Sagaponack · Contemporary

Robert Dash's painter's garden, two acres of rooms, follies, and bridges arranged the way a canvas is composed. The yellow Chinese bridge is the photograph; the mood is the point.

• $10

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Tripoli Gallery

Wainscott · Contemporary

Tripoli Patterson's second space, in a converted Wainscott barn. Young East End painters mixed with LA transplants; the annual Thanksgiving collective show is the local calendar marker.

• Free

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Berry Campbell East Hampton

East Hampton · Contemporary

Specialists in the postwar American women often shelved under second-generation Abstract Expressionism — Perle Fine, Judith Godwin, Yvonne Thomas. The research catalogs are serious.

• Free
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Eric Firestone Gallery

East Hampton · Contemporary

Second-generation postwar and the women of Abstract Expressionism who were not invited to MoMA's 1951 show. The shows often travel to the Great Jones Street space after closing here.

• Free
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Glenn Horowitz Bookseller

East Hampton · Contemporary

Rare books, literary archives, and small curated exhibitions at the intersection of art and letters. Horowitz moves major estates — Ginsberg, Mapplethorpe — and the shows draw from them.

• Free
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Guild Hall

East Hampton · Early 20th c.

Part museum, part theater, part community hall. The three galleries rotate shows by East End artists living and dead; the John Drew Theater next door does readings and chamber music the same weekend.

• Suggested donation
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Halsey McKay Gallery

East Hampton · Contemporary

One of the sharpest programs on Newtown Lane. Shows mid-career painters and sculptors the bigger galleries have not yet absorbed. The back room is where the quieter work lives.

• Free
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Harper's East Hampton

East Hampton · Contemporary

Harper Levine's program, split between rare photobooks out front and a painting program in back. The book selection alone justifies a walk in.

• Free
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Historic house

Home Sweet Home Museum

East Hampton · Colonial

John Howard Payne's boyhood house on the village green. Payne wrote the song the museum is named for. The interior is a period parlor and kitchen; the garden out back has one of the oldest roses on the East End.

• $6

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Karyn Mannix Contemporary

East Hampton · Contemporary

Project-based shows with an editorial slant. Mannix often pairs a painter with a writer and does readings the opening weekend.

• Free
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Lawrence Fine Art

East Hampton · Contemporary

Secondary-market Impressionism and early American modernism in a jewel-box front room. Not the program to visit for the new thing; a good stop for the history of painting on this coast.

• Free
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Sculpture garden

LongHouse Reserve

East Hampton · Contemporary

Jack Lenor Larsen's sixteen-acre garden holds work by Willy Benard, Buckminster Fuller, Yoko Ono, and Lynda Benglis, set into cedar allees and reflecting pools. Walk the whole thing; there is no short loop.

• $15
• Wheelchair

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Pace East Hampton

East Hampton · Contemporary

Pace's seasonal East End outpost. Summer programs rotate through the mega-gallery's core roster — Nam June Paik, Loie Hollowell, Mary Corse — in a space sized to handle big installations.

• Free
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Rental Gallery

East Hampton · Contemporary

Joel Mesler's East End program. Younger painters on the rise, mixed with editorial-themed group shows. Short sharp runs — check the schedule before you drive out.

• Free
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Roman Fine Art

East Hampton · Contemporary

Contemporary prints and works on paper, often with an editorial or pop slant. Accessible prices relative to the neighborhood; Roman and Lisa Arnst know the print studios the blue chips come from.

• Free
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Skarstedt East Hampton

East Hampton · Contemporary

The uptown secondary-market gallery on vacation. Expect Basquiat, Prince, Sherman, Wool — the blue chip rotation in a smaller footprint. Summer only.

• Free
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The Drawing Room

East Hampton · Contemporary

Works on paper and small-scale painting by the generation that followed the abstract expressionists — Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, Donald Sultan. Owner Victoria Munroe knows every provenance story.

• Free
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The White Room Gallery

East Hampton · Contemporary

Group shows focused on living Long Island painters, with a rotating cohort. Now on Railroad Avenue in East Hampton after years in Bridgehampton.

• Free

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Vered Gallery

East Hampton · Contemporary

One of the oldest galleries in the village. Ruth Vered's program is broad, from second-generation Abstract Expressionism to contemporary photography. Ask about the Warhol archive.

• Free
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Ille Arts

Amagansett · Contemporary

Sara De Luca's program: careful painting and works on paper by a stable of East End artists she has shown for over a decade. The shows feel lived-in rather than staged.

• Free
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Quiet Gallery Amagansett

Amagansett · Contemporary

A newer project space in the village center. Photography and works on paper, short runs, priced for local collectors rather than the Hauser and Wirth audience.

• Free
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Sculpture garden

Dark Elegy

Montauk · Contemporary

Suse Lowenstein's memorial to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103: dozens of larger-than-life figures of women posed at the moment they learned of their loss, installed in the sculptor's own garden. Each is inscribed with the names of the woman who posed and the person she lost.

• Free

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Monica De Cardenas Montauk

Montauk · Contemporary

The Milan gallery's far-east seasonal outpost. Small single-room shows of European painting; the hours are short and the summer-only rhythm matters.

• Free
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Grenning Gallery

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Representational painting, mostly American and European living artists who work in oil. One of the few galleries on the East End that still commits full programs to still life and landscape.

• Free
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Keyes Art

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Julie Keyes' downtown Sag Harbor space. Mixed program, heavier on sculpture than most of the South Fork galleries. Good for the first hour of an evening walk around the village.

• Free
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Monika Olko Gallery

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Contemporary painting, drawing, photography and sculpture from emerging and mid-career artists worldwide, in rotating shows in Sag Harbor's historic district.

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Richard J Demato Fine Arts

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Figurative and narrative painting at museum scale. Demato hangs each show like a curator, not a dealer. Long viewing takes; bring time.

• Free
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Romany Kramoris Gallery

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

One of the oldest independent galleries on Main Street. A mix of regional painting, small sculpture, and jewelry. Unpretentious and affordable in a way almost nothing else in the village still is.

• Free
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Sara Nightingale Gallery

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Long-running Sag Harbor program focused on East End painters and sculptors in mid-career. The shows are quieter than the Newtown Lane rotation; the conversations are usually better.

• Free

Cultural site

The Church

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Eric Fischl and April Gornik turned Sag Harbor's 1864 Methodist church into an exhibition hall and artist residency. Shows turn over a few times a year, and the building is half the show.

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Tulla Booth Gallery

Sag Harbor · Contemporary

Photography-first program, with a specialty in coastal and underwater work. The prints are sized for people who actually want to hang them, not just collect them.

• Free
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Cultural site

Arts Center at Duck Creek

Springs · Contemporary

John Little's old Duck Creek Farm barn, now a nonprofit arts space a short walk from the Pollock-Krasner House. Outdoor concerts, small print shows, and an artist-in-residence program.

• Donation

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Ashawagh Hall

Springs · Contemporary

The Springs community hall where the Abstract Expressionists showed in the 1950s. Still the beating heart of the Springs art community, with rotating local shows most weekends in season.

• Free

Historic house

Elaine de Kooning House

Springs · Abstract Expressionist

Elaine de Kooning's former home and studio, now an artist residency run by a small foundation. They open the studio to the public a few weekends a year; sign the newsletter to catch one.

• Free during open houses

Studio

Jackson Pollock Studio Barn

Springs · Abstract Expressionist

The converted barn Pollock worked in from 1946 until his death. The drip-stained floor is the exhibit; visitors wear slippers and walk its edge. The adjacent Krasner studio holds her later collages.

• Included with Pollock-Krasner House tour

Historic house

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

Springs · Abstract Expressionist

The house Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner bought in 1945 with a loan from Peggy Guggenheim. The barn studio still carries the drip floor Pollock painted on, preserved under plexiglass. Stony Brook runs the tours.

• $10, reservation required

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The Leiber Collection

Springs · Contemporary

Judith Leiber's handbags and Gerson Leiber's paintings in a Palladian-style building the couple built in Springs, ringed by the sculpture garden Gerson designed. Her work is also held by the Met and the Smithsonian.

• By donation

Studio

Willem de Kooning Studio (exterior view)

Springs · Abstract Expressionist

The purpose-built studio de Kooning designed with architect William Davis, where he worked through the late figurative paintings and the ribbon abstractions. Not open to visitors; the preservation foundation runs scholars-only access.

• Private; no public access
• Exterior only

Cultural site

Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum

Shinnecock Hills · Indigenous

The cultural center of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Permanent exhibits on wampum, whaling, and the nation's federal recognition fight. The Labor Day powwow is the signature event but the year-round exhibits are the reason to come.

• $8
• Wheelchair

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Quogue Historical Society

Quogue · Colonial

The Pond House and the Old Schoolhouse hold maps, portraits, and farm tools from Quogue's days as a whaling-era farming village. Quiet, unpretentious, staffed by volunteers who know the attics.

• Free