WHITE SANDS
This simple, unfussy resort is located in Amagansett, less than 10 miles from Bridgehampton, and offers oceanfront rooms plus access to a private beach, rare among Hamptons lodgings.
28 Shore Road
Amagansett
631-267-3350
Rates: $175-$500
whitesands-resort.com

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BRIDGEHAMPTON CANDY KITCHEN
Popular for its no-frills menu, this retro diner is close to ArtHamptons. "Candy Kitchen is right across from the fair, and celebrities like to eat there," says Friedman. Favorites include comfort food like Greek salad with chicken, grilled-cheese sandwiches and, especially, homemade ice cream. Make sure to try the peach, which is a summer special.
2391 Main Street
Bridgehampton
631-537-9885

PIERRE’S
Offering classic seafood dishes like bouillabaisse and paella, as well as such French staples as escargot, this bistro is a local favorite. Pierre’s has a lively weekend bar scene and hosts live jazz on Sundays.
2468 Main Street
631-537-5110
pierresbridgehampton.com

BOBBY VAN’S
"Bobby Van’s used to be the watering hole for Truman Capote and down the block from Larry Rivers’s studio. It’s right across the street from the Dan Flavin Institute," says an enthusiastic Friedman. As if its history and locale weren’t enough, this spot is known for prime steaks and potent cocktails like the Bobby Van’s cosmo, the Ultimate margarita and the Pear-perfect martini.
2393 Montauk Highway
631-537-0590
bobbyvans.com

See:

GUILD HALL
Guild Hall, opened in 1931, primarily shows artists who have lived or worked on the eastern end of Long Island. "We exhibited Pollock and de Kooning when they were just starting out," says curator Christina Strassfield. Through July 26, the museum showcases work by Taryn Simon, who gives a lecture on her stark photographs of cultural oddities on July 11. Paintings by the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan will also be on view, and on July 19, art historian Gail Levin will be giving a lecture on Hartigan’s work.
158 Main Street
East Hampton
631-324-0806
guildhall.org

POLLOCK-KRASNER HOUSE
Stony Brook University has taken over and meticulously preserved the house where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner created many of the works that made them famous. Purchased by Pollock with a loan from Peggy Guggenheim in 1946, the late 19th-century fisherman’s house still contains many of the couple’s household items, from prints and jazz records to studio materials and painting implements. Visitors can change into felt slippers to walk on Pollock’s paint-laden studio floor.
830 Fireplace Road
East Hampton
631-324-4929
pkhouse.org

THE DAN FLAVIN ART INSTITUTE
Run by Dia and launched in 1983 in a two-story 1908 firehouse, this monument to Flavin is the permanent home of nine of his famed fluorescent fixtures. The project was overseen by the artist himself, who worked with the architect Richard Gluckman on restoring the building.
CORWITH AVENUE AND MAIN STREET
BRIDGEHAMPTON
212-989-5566
diaart.org/ltproj/flavbrid

THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM
Founded in 1898 by the prominent New York lawyer Samuel Longstreth Parrish to house his holdings of Italian Renaissance art and Greek and Roman sculpture, today the museum displays work by local artists, including the largest collection of Fairfield Porter in the country. Starting June 27, it will stage the first U.S. show devoted to the French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne, which includes 23 large-scale images taken mostly in west Texas. On July 11, the Parrish will hold an ArtHamptons gala honoring Dorothy Lichtenstein.
25 Job’s Lane
631-283-2118
parrishart.org

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GALLERY HOTSPOTS
"East Hampton is the hub of the galleries," says John Jonas Gruen. Among the most notable are the Drawing Room (16R Newtown Lane; 631-324-5016), exhibiting Flaubert-inspired panels by the painter Timothy Woodman; the Fireplace Project (851 Springs Fireplace Road; 631-324-4666), showing the contemporary photographer Anthony Goicolea; and Spanierman Gallery (68 Newtown Lane; 631-329-9530), with a series of Neil Williams’s colorful geometric canvases.