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46 Artists Who Live and Work in the Hamptons


Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl and 43 artists keeping the Hamptons from turning into Key West.

Most came out from Soho and Tribeca to live and work on the East End of Long Island back when the prices were lower, and they have been socializing and dipping into one another’s studios for decades. The de Koonings were following artists such as Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, James Brooks and Charlotte Park, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell, who had come to the area in the 1940s and ’50s for the cheap real estate and that famous light. Sanford Biggers, 53, whose wife’s family had a house in Sag Harbor’s historic Black community, bought his own place in nearby Noyac in 2020.

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