Art
Every gallery, museum, artist studio, and sculpture garden on the East End. From the Pollock-Krasner House to the Newtown Lane gallery row to the Parrish in Water Mill — the full body of work, not a curated short list.
- 🖼️ Gallery
- 🏛️ Museum
- 🎨 Studio
- 🎭 Cultural site
- 🏚️ Historic house
- 🗿 Sculpture garden
🏛️ Museum
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
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🏛️ Museum
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
- Wheelchair
🏚️ 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
🗿 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
🎭 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
🏛️ Museum
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; verify dates before driving out.
- Free
🎭 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
🏛️ Museum
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+
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🏛️ Museum
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
🎭 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
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🏛️ Museum
Bridgehampton Museum
Bridgehampton · Colonial
Corwith House and the Nathaniel Rogers mansion, both restored, telling the farming and whaling history of the hamlet. The art wing rotates shows by Bridgehampton painters working now and in the 1950s.
- Free
🏛️ Museum
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
🏛️ Museum
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
🎨 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
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
🎨 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
🏚️ 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
🏚️ 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
🎨 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
🏚️ 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
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🎭 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
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
The White Room Gallery
Bridgehampton · Contemporary
Group shows focused on living Long Island painters, with a rotating cohort. The program is cheerful, not heavy; it is what it is.
- Free
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair
🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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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🖼️ Gallery
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
- Wheelchair