“Members Show To Be Bigger Than Ever,” The Southampton Press, April 25, 2013
“This year’s group exhibit celebrating a diamond anniversary milestone for the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island, and to be judged by “2012 Whitney Biennial” Co-Curator Elisabeth Sussman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is expected to break all previous numbers for both submissions and viewers…” Continue reading
“For Numbers Guy, a Life of Serving the Arts,” The Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2013
“When Melville ‘Mickey’ Straus is asked how many years he has served as chairman of the board of trustees of Guild Hall…he always answers, ‘I don’t know. Six, seven, eight years. Ten years,’ he says. It’s been a labor of love and he isn’t keeping count…” Continue reading
“Rigoletto Like Never Before at Guild Hall,” Dan’s Papers, March 1, 2013
“February and March are tough months to get through in the Northeast. The good news is that Guild Hall is a little cultural oasis that can brighten up the dreariest of days and quench your thirst for the arts…” Continue reading
“Masterpiece Theater,” Hamptons Magazine Holiday 2012
“‘The bottom line with Guild Hall is that we actually give people experiences,’ says the executive director…” Continue reading
“Album Covers That Are as Evocative as the Music,” The New York Times, November 25, 2012
“Over a career of more than 30 years, John Berg designed thousands of album covers that helped sell records by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and other artists and that remain as vivid in some fans’ memories as the music itself…” Continue reading
“A Familiar Expression,” Newsday, November 19, 2012
“Guild Hall helped nurture the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism — many of whom lived and worked full- or part-time in the Hamptons starting in the 1940s. These include a who’s who of the movement: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Ibram Lassaw, James Brooks, Mercedes Matter, Robert Richenburg and Mary Abbott…” Continue reading
“Album Covers from the Heyday,” The East Hampton Star, November 13, 2012
“A conversation with Mr. Berg is like a walk through a vintage record store, albeit one overflowing with direct knowledge and experience of the creative works in it. Barbra Streisand, for example, ‘is smart! God, she’s smart. Ramsey Lewis is a really neat guy. Tony Bennett is fun, and he’s a good painter. Ted Nugent is totally out of his mind…’” Continue reading
“Four Big Exhibitions to Open Simultaneously at Guild Hall,” The Southampton Press, October 23, 2012
“After developing a number of the negatives, Mr. Kuntz couldn’t believe his eyes. In front of him were long lost fields, families, architecture and memories. ‘I’ve been here for almost 50 years and, certainly, the place has changed in the last five years. The place has changed in the last 10 years,’ he said. ‘The place has changed in the last 20 years. But 50 years? This place is gone. You might as well be on another planet…’” Continue reading
“Celebrating 10 Years of The Naked Stage and Guild Hall Partnership,”
East Hampton Patch, September 17, 2012
“The Naked Stage readings are an essential part of Guild Hall’s programming for the past 10 years,” said Ruth Appelhof, Guild Hall’s executive director. “They bring together playwrights, actors and directors in our community to produce classic works, as well as nurture and cultivate new and experimental pieces in a professional theater…” Continue reading
“Hamptons Havens Open for a Day,” The New York Times, August 22, 2012
“Do hedge fund managers’ hedges grow any greener? Two of the impeccably tended Edens on view this weekend for charity may offer a clue…” Continue reading
“By the Bean-Shaped Pool,” The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2012
“Guild Hall, said Ms. Brodsky, “is a real magnet for the community. There are great exhibitions, they have good theater and then my 4-year-old granddaughter went there to see gymnastics…” Continue reading
“‘UncleVanya’ Up Close at Guild Hall,” The East Hampton Star, April 19, 2012
“Fred Melamed was 22 in 1978 the first time he played the title role in Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya…” Continue reading
“Belated Acclaim for an Artist with a Restless Sensibility,” The New York Times, December 16, 2011
“Mr. Ferrer “is finally having his moment,” Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times, praising his “instinctive facility for color and materials of all kinds…” Continue reading
“At East Hampton Theater, Tribute to a Stage Legend,” The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2011
“Dina Merrill, a longtime legend of the stage and screen who has co-starred with everyone from Tony Curtis to Elizabeth Taylor, always wanted to insure that theater in New York remains vibrant and varied, with room for up-and-coming talents…” Continue reading
“A Designer Shares her Work Style,” The Southampton Press, October 8, 2009
“Vera Wang, perhaps best known for her wedding dress designs, spoke less about her fairy tale bridal collections and more about the ins and outs of running a business in a talk at Guild Hall…” Continue reading
“A Village, and a Way of Life, Long Gone,” The New York Times, December 3, 2006
“The photographs capture a broad view of East Hampton at a time when life there was very different from what it is today. Back then it was still a farming and fishing community, home to solid working-class folk like the two men in winter coats, with hunting dogs, standing in front of a fence lined with dozens of raccoon and fox pelts…” Continue reading
“Robert Wilson’s ‘Persephone’: Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny,” The New York Times, August 14, 2006
“The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically beautiful lighting and deliberately stylized gesture are among the tools with which he has created a repertory of epic-scale theater, opera and dance works…” Continue reading
