OPENING GALA & COLLECTOR'S PREVIEW

• Sponsored by Art+Auction Magazine & Hamptons.com
• All proceeds are donated to the American Heart Association.
• Artist Will Barnet, the 97-year-old prolific painter and printmaker, will be honored with the premier Hamptons Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts, bestowed by the AHA and ArtHamptons. More info...
• He will do a book signing of his newly published Catalog Raisonne of Prints in the John Szoke Editons booth .
• THE ONLY opportunity to view and purchase the art before the fair opens to the public.
• Admission, $125 per person.

Friday, July 11, 2008, noon-6pm

• Sponsored by Dan's Papers
• All admissions from 12noon -6pm, (at$20 per person) are donated to the Pollock Krasner House and Study Center.
• Ticket buyers will receive complimentary admission to the Pollock-Krasner House.
• The fundraiser features a silent auction in which a rare Lee Krasner screen print will go to the highest bidder
• Lectures—1-2pm. “A Passion for Possession-Hamptons Collectors on Collecting”, moderated by Helen A. Harrison, panelists include Ron Delsner, Henry Buhl, Larry Dubin and Michael Zenft.
• 2:30-3pm Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and author of Hamptons Bohemia, will host a book-signing.
• Reading-4-6pm, sponsored by Dans Papers....Dan will read the DeKooning Chapter from his book, “In the Hamptons”, followed by a book-signing.

Friday, July 11, 2008, 6-9pm 

• Sponsored by Artnet
• The 60th Anniversary Reunion of the players of the Annual Artists & Writers Softball Game.
• Proceeds go to: Phoenix House, East End Day Care, and East End Hospice.
• Meet and mingle with the current and past players of this popular summer softball event.
• View selected works of art from the upcoming Artist & Writers Silent Auction as well as interesting samples of the upcoming Box Art Auction
• Live Music—by The Art Officials String Band, featuring Audry Flack.
• Admission is $25 per person

Saturday, July 12, 2008

• All gate and print sale proceeds go towards WLIU relocation fund.

• Admission is $20

• Featuring lectures, seminars and live broadcasts.

• From 1-2pm, Why You Can’t Live Without Art?, moderated by artist/sculptor Audry Flack, panelists include celebrated artist April Gornik, David Brigham, Director, Penn. Academy of Art and curator Klaus Kertess.
• 2pm-3pm, “Using the Internet to Build Your Collection”, moderated by Miriam Ticker, Partner , Rago Arts + Auctions Center. Panelists include Bill Fine, Pres, Artnet Worldwide
• 3:30-4pm, “The importance of Larry Rivers: Prelude to the Guild Hall Show.”, presented by Christina Strassfield, Curator, Guild Hall.
• A silent auction for a Larry Rivers print, benefiting Guild Hall, is held in the John Szoke Editions booth, D9, from noon-6pm
• 5-6pm, Meet legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss, as he signs his book new book, “Athlete”.-sponsored by the Peter Fetterman Gallery

• A silent auction featuring a 1991 Robert Indiana print (nearly 5 ft)
  
  

*This piece is the cover of the book, the Hartley Elegies, which will come with the art work.
The series is Robert Indiana’s tribute to the famous American artist Marsden Hartley.
Donated by Verve Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

• sponsored by hamptons.com

• All admissions and donated artwork proceeds go to underwrite the Emergency Room of Southampton Hospital

• Complementary spirits in the VIP Lounge.

• endorsed by the American Society of Interiors Designers (ASID)

• Featuring the silent auction of a signed Andy Warhol lithograph (from Warhol’s famous After the Party series entitled Committee 2000) and donated by DJT Gallery

• Admission is $100 per person.

Sunday, July 13, 2008, Noon-6pm

• All admission and donated artwork proceeds go to the Bridgehampton Historical Society for the Restoration and Preservation of the Nathaniel Rogers Mansion.

• Admission is $20 per person

• Lecture 1-1:45pm —“Successful Art Collecting: Insider Tips on Choice, Strategy and Value”, presented by Ray Waterhouse, Chairman of Fine Art Brokers, London, Paris and New York.
  

• A silent auction of an original pastel by America’s premier colorist, Wolf Kahn, donated by the Jerald Melberg Gallery

Wolf Kahn
Unused Barn ( L.I.)
2002
pastel on paper,
12 x 18

Value: $7,500