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Recorded Programs
The Language of Surface: Paintings by Debbie Ma
December 20, 2025
The Bridgehampton Museum invited the public to a special artist-led tour of The Language of Surface: Paintings by Debbie Ma, the museum’s current exhibition exploring Ma’s distinctive vocabulary of abstracted, letter-like forms and richly textured surfaces.
Before the tour, Museum board member Mary Dinaburg conducted a short Q&A with Ma on her work and life as an artist which has been recorded for your viewing pleasure. Then after the tour Ma guided visitors through her works and offered insight into the development of her visual language, which blends geometric structures, textile-like patterns, and suggestive typographic shapes. Known for her careful use of restrained or monochrome color palettes, Ma’s paintings reward close attention, revealing subtle shifts in surface and depth that create a dynamic spatial experience.
To learn more about this exhibition you can visit our website at https://www.bridgehamptonmuseum.org/exhibits/debbiema
Stamberg Aferiat Architecture Tour
November 29, 2025
A special tour of our exhibition Stamberg Aferiat Architecture led by the two architects behind the work, Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat.
Curated by Reed Kroloff, Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the exhibition showcases photographs and architectural models documenting some of Stamberg Aferiat’s most iconic projects across Long Island. Known for their bold use of color, form, and light, Stamberg and Aferiat’s work redefines modern architecture with a balance of human warmth and spatial clarity.
Coinciding with the exhibition, the New York City-based architects will also release a new monograph, STAMBERG AFERIAT ARCHITECTURE: FORM + COLOR / FORM + LIGHT, featuring photographs by Paul Warchol and forewords by Paul Goldberger and Reed Kroloff. The book offers an in-depth exploration of their decades-long collaboration and the philosophy behind their acclaimed designs.
“Light, form, and color are tools that Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat have mastered over a 50-year career and dozens of projects celebrated in the press and cherished by clients,” says curator Reed Kroloff.
The exhibition and monograph provide a rare opportunity to understand how their creative process challenges the status quo in residential, hotel, commercial and cultural typologies right in the community that has inspired so much of their work.
John El Manahi, Paintings from The Artist's Wife
November 25, 2025
Hosted by Joyce Raimondo, Education Coordinator, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. This zoom recording features a virtual tour with John El Manahi, Production Designer/artist, whose paintings are on view at the The Bridgehampton Museum's Tractor Barn. The paintings were created for Tom Dolby's movie The Artist's Wife (2020) — filmed in the Hamptons. In addition to designing the film and all that it entails, John created the 18 abstract expressionist original artworks in this exhibition and featured in the film.
Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing with April Masten
November 22, 2025
April Masten discusses Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing (her new book with University of Illinois Press in December). The book tells the story of two extraordinary jig dancers, Irish-American John Diamond and African-American William Henry Lane, aka Juba, who achieved international fame in the mid-nineteenth century as competitors in the art and sport of challenge dancing (jig dancing matches). It follows Diamond and Juba from their earliest days as street and tavern dancers in New York City's Five Points district to the pinnacles of their success in the glittering pleasure gardens and legitimate theaters of New York and London. By offering a close reading of an 1844 advertisement for a “Great Public Contest” between these two rival talents, Masten demonstrates how she rescued from obscurity the social world that created this Black-Irish dance, its women competitors, its association with blackface, and its close connection to the manly art of boxing.
Burning Days, the Life and Work of James Salter with Keith Reddin
November 21, 2025
Presented by The Bridgehampton Museum and Canio's
Salter, a longtime Bridgehampton resident, was known as a writer’s writer. A novelist of the first rank, he was a contemporary of other East End writers, among them Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, James Jones, George Plimpton. Salter was a decorated Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War, and had a distinguished career as novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter. He wrote what is considered one of the best sports films of all time, Downhill Racer with Robert Redford and Gene Hackman. Salter’s memoir Burning The Days was a bestseller. He was also known for his masterpiece A Sport And A Pastime.
Presenter bio:
Keith Reddin, a playwright and educator, has a decades long connection with the East End arts scene. Mr. Reddin has a deep love of contemporary American literature and a special devotion to the works of James Salter. His plays include Life and Limb, Rum and Coke, Big Time, Nebraska, Life During Wartime, Brutality of Fact, Almost Blue, All the Rage, But Not For Me, Frame 312, Human Error, The Missionary Position, Acquainted with the Night, Pierre. Adaptations include Black Snow, The Imaginary Invalid, Heaven’s My Destination, the one acts of Strindberg and Rear Window. His work has been produced at Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theater, Alliance Theater, American Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, as well as in London, Berlin, and Tel Aviv. He has also written for film and television, as well as being a professor of playwriting at Columbia University, New York University and the New School. Mr. Reddin lives in East Hampton with his wife Meg Gibson an actor.
Historic Schoolhouses of Long Island with Zachary Studenroth
November 15, 2025
In this book about Long Island's historic schoolhouses, their architectural, social, and cultural history is described and illustrated, beginning in the 1700s during the region’s settlement period and lasting until the end of the 1800s, when a new era of schoolhouse construction began. Often the center of town and village life, schoolhouses have always played an important role in the growth of Long Island’s communities. It was not until 1812, however, that laying out school districts and constructing schoolhouses was mandated by New York State. Fortunately, a few of these historic schoolhouses are accessible today, as integral parts of museum complexes where they’ve been restored for public enjoyment and educational programs. This book provides both the historical and cultural background to make these destinations more enjoyable for all visitors.
Virtual Art Tour: Bridgehampton Tractor Barn, Jonathon Nash Glynn
October 22, 2025
Joyce Raimondo, Education Coordinator, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center presents creative ways that artists such as Pollock, Miró, van Gogh, Calder, and others have been inspired by the cosmic realm. Then Jonathon Nash Glynn presents his paintings inspired by the breathtaking images captured by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes and his exploration of his own inner space. Jonathon’s work was on on view October 2025 at The Bridgehampton Museum's Tractor Barn Bridgehampton.
This Zoom program is part of thePollock-Krasner House and Study Center's virtaul art tours featuring artists of the East End of Long Island, New York.
Echoes and Nostalgia at Bridgehampton Museum
August 27, 2025
Join host Joyce Raimondo, Education Coordinator, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, and Tim Malyk, Collections Manager , Bridgehampton Museum, for a virtual tour of their exhibition, Echoes and Nostalgia, as well as their permanent collection. On view from August 21 - September 21, 2025, the exhibition featured selected works from the acclaimed documentary artist Lana Jokel’s collection including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, among many others.
Best of All Things is Water with Megan and Scott Chaskey
August 23, 2025
Megan and Scott Chaskey met as poets on the island of Great Britain in 1978, and lived for a decade on the Penwith Peninsula, in the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, on the granite shore of Mount’s bay. Now, living on this peninsula, in Sag Harbor, the eastern end of Long Island—for over three decades--their poetry has been inspired by the Atlantic from a different viewpoint. They will read poems of place influenced by rivers, rain, bays, and the tidal music of the sea.
Upon This Ground: An Artist Talk with Joshua Obawole Allen and Jasmine Webster
May 28, 2025
Co-sponsored by Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
Event Date: Wednesday, May 28 from 5 to 6pm
Event Location: The Nathaniel Rogers House, 2539 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Ma’s House resident artist Joshua Allen will be joined by art writer Jasmine Weber at the historic Nathaniel Rogers House for an insightful conversation on the themes of queerness, identity, diaspora, healing and empowerment. The discussion will delve into Joshua’s artistic journey and social practice, focusing on his recent projects such as “Waves” and the forthcoming solo exhibition “Returning Home.” These works explore the complexities of the African American experience, ancestral memory, queerness and personal transformation. Presented in partnership by The Bridgehampton Museum and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
About Joshua Obawole Allen
Joshua Obawole Allen (b. 1995, Brooklyn, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose practice invites viewers to radically reimagine the world as a more just, equitable and joyous place. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at AM:PM Gallery (2025) the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU (2024), Leslie Lohman Museum (2024), Armory Week (2024), Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts (2024) and the nationwide For Freedoms, Wide Awakes billboard campaign (2020). Joshua has also been awarded prestigious residencies at the World Trade Center (2021),The Watermill Center (2022), the Brooklyn Museum (2022) and Ma’s House (2025).
About Jasmine Weber
Jasmine is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Burnaway, Cultured Magazine, Document Journal, Hyperallergic, and Seen Journal. In 2021, she was awarded the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. In 2024, she participated in the Center for Book Arts' Small Press Incubator and was a June resident of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Jasmine is a recipient of the 2024 Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing, supporting a developing series of articles on the historically Black beach enclaves in Sag Harbor, NY, and their artistic histories.
Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton
May 17, 2025
UCLA research professor Patricia A. Turner, Ph.D., whose family migrated to “the Turnpike” in 1930, will share stories of the people and institutions that forged Bridgehampton’s resilient black community. Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton will be anchored by interviews, documents from local libraries and archives---including newspapers only available in the Nathaniel Rogers house—publications such as Grandfather Lived Here and The Other Hampton as well as photography from family albums as well as from the collections of Judy Tomkins and Kathryn Szoka. Searching for A Better Life: Looking Back at the African American Migration to Bridgehampton is one installment in a larger project that seeks to guarantee that the early days of the East End’s Black communities are preserved and celebrated. Co-sponsored by Canio’s and the Eastville Community Historical Society.
Growing Up Literary: George Plimpton’s Son Reflects
May 10, 2025
Presented by The Bridgehampton Museum and Canio's
Author and essayist Taylor Plimpton, son of Paris Review founding editor George Plimpton, reminisces on growing up among giants of the written word like Peter Matthiessen and next-door neighbor Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack, one of the most remarkable literary hamlets in the world. Presented in partnership with Canio’s.
Presenter bio:
Taylor Plimpton is the author of the memoir, Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark. He regularly contributes essays to Sports Illustrated, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Paris Review Daily, and many other periodicals. Plimpton is currently finishing up a collection entitled, Who My Dog Thinks I Am: Essays and Other True Tales. He graduated with a degree in English from Reed College, and lives with his family (including his mostly good dog, Brooklyn) in Pleasantville, New York.
Agent of Change: Kurt Vonnegut, the Civic-Minded, Darkly-Comic Writer
April 12, 2025
Presented by The Bridgehampton Museum and Canio's
Soon after Slaughterhouse-Five became a best seller, an interviewer asked Vonnegut why he wrote. He answered, “My motives are political. I agree with Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini that the writer should serve his society. I differ with dictators as to how writers should serve.” Suzanne McConnell will trace the passions that fueled Vonnegut’s writing, the ingredients that shaped his views, and the honing of his craft – especially his humor – that allowed him to realize his work. She’ll share anecdotes of him and his motives as a teacher at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Together, we might consider what he would be writing today.
Presenter bio:
Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and they remained friends. She’s published memoirs of him in The Brooklyn Rail and The Writer’s Digest, led a panel at the AWP conference on Vonnegut’s legacy regarding war, lectured on his work at the American Academy in Berlin, and her book on his writing advice, Pity the Reader: on Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell, was published in 2019 by Seven Stories Press. McConnell has published essays, poems, and award-winning short stories. She taught writing at Hunter College, and was Fiction Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and is now a contributing editor. Her novel, Fence of Earth is being represented for publication by The Phillip G. Spitzer Literary Agency. She lives in Manhattan and Wellfleet, MA, with her husband, the visual artist Gary Kuehn.
Bridgehampton and the Corwith Connection with Sharon Atkins and David Corwith
August 7, 2024
Sharon and David’s Bridgehampton roots go way back and in this talk they will highlight their family history with insights on the lives of ancestors like Patriot Caleb Corwith, James Corwith who places the Water Mill Wind Mill, and Hazel Corwith whose life in Southampton/Water Mill during WWI was recorded in personal writings. They will also cover their familial connection to our very own Corwith House.
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