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Guild Hall announced today the 40th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards Dinner will take place on Monday, April 27th at The Rainbow Room in New York City. The Academy of the Arts, established in 1985, is a community of over 200 of the nation’s most accomplished artists and creative professionals, affiliated with the East End of Long Island, who lend their talent and expertise to Guild Hall. This year, Guild Hall will honor Carl Bernstein and Katie Couric each with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Media & Communications, and Leila Straus with the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy. Additionally, we are delighted to recognize our newest inductees to the Academy of the Arts: Victor Garber, Sarah Sze, and Colson Whitehead…

 

Guild Hall proudly announces its 2026 visual arts exhibition lineup, a thoughtfully planned year of gallery presentations that reflect the Museum’s enduring commitment to artistic practice, creative dialogue, and community. Spanning painting, sculpture, design, and collective practice, the 2026 season brings together emerging artists and established voices who, through their ideas and practices, engage with questions of memory, identity, materiality, and perception…

 

Guild Hall announced today a grant award totaling $25,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the arts and culture sector. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded $80.9 million in FY 2026 to arts and culture nonprofits across all 10 regions and a historic number of artists…

 

 

Guild Hall is pleased to announce an additional presentation for the first exhibition slot of 2026 with Liberty Labs: A Decade of Design, on view from January 25 through April 19, 2026, running concurrently with Jason Bard Yarmosky: Time Has Many Faces…

 

 

Guild Hall is pleased to partner with Works & Process for the second consecutive year as part of the 2026 Dance Out East Festival on Saturday, January 10 at 7 PM with Naomi Funaki’s Ikagai. Dance Out East is a collaboration between Guild Hall, The Church, The Watermill Center, and Works & Process, and highlights the creation of new choreographic work ahead of its continued development within Works & Process’ 2026 dance festivals…

 

 

Guild Hall is pleased to announce the first gallery presentation of 2026 with JASON BARD YARMOSKY: TIME HAS MANY FACES, a major solo exhibition on view from January 25 through April 19, 2026. The exhibition brings together new and recent paintings by Jason Bard Yarmosky, whose work examines aging, time, and memory with remarkable intimacy and emotional depth…

 

 

Guild Hall and Jewish Center of the Hamptons are pleased to present Eitan Levine: Comedian. Writer. Mensch. on Sunday, December 21 at 5:30 PM—a high-energy evening of sharp, quick-witted stand-up from one of today’s most dynamic comedic storytellers. The program will take place in the Hilarie and Mitchelll Morgan Theater at Guild Hall…

 

 

Guild Hall is proud to announce the launch of The Innovators Talk Show, a new conversation series spotlighting the business and cultural leaders who are reshaping their industries and doing game-changing work. This initiative is presented as part of Guild Hall’s Community Pillars, a business membership that supports the cultural and economic fabric of our region…

 

 

Guild Hall is proud to announce the Student Art Festival: Rauschenberg100 and Impressions Transferred: Lasting Legacies of Robert Rauschenberg, on view from Saturday, November 15, 2025, through Sunday, January 4, 2026. This year, Guild Hall joins the international Rauschenberg100 initiative, organized by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, honoring the artist’s centennial year…

 

 

The event honored philanthropists Louise and Howie Phanstiel and celebrated the openings of Mary Heilmann: Water Way and Joel Mesler: Miles of Smiles...