By Jonah Wolf 9/04/12 7:21pm

Shindigger

Cindy Sherman. (Adriel Reboh/Patrick McMullan)

Guests of Cindy Sherman: The Azuero Earth Project Benefit at the Artist’s East Hampton Spread

“Look who it is: it’s Edwina, the Edwina,” Isaac Mizrahi exclaimed to The Observer this past Saturday, as he approached Edwina von Gal, the designer who, Ross Bleckner told us, “did the landscaping at my house in Sagaponack.”

We were at Cindy Sherman’s new East Hampton home at a benefit for the Azuero Earth Project, the Panama-based ecological nonprofit of which Ms. von Gal is president. It was a cozy beginning-of-the-end to the Hamptons summer season. Guests sat on benches under a white tent to eat empanadas and watch performances by Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed. Children climbed into pendulous bamboo cocoons, stuffed with pillows, that swayed from the trees. Read More

By Chloe Malle 6/09/10 3:13am

The Shindigger

Refugees of Warhol’s Factory Take the Hamptons

Two security guards flanked the doorway of Eric Firestone’s newly opened gallery on East Hampton’s chic retail row Newtown Lane. Inside, at the opening of “Warhol: From Dylan to Duchamp,” black-and-white photographs of Andy Warhol and his many muses lined the walls from floor to ceiling. Young male waiters squiring silver trays of Read More

By Irina Aleksander 5/25/09 3:27pm

Socialites Invade the Hamptons! Alexandra Richards Hosts Season’s First Big Shindig (Hoodies, Pants Optional)

Montauk, N.Y.—Despite overcast skies and evening temperatures dipping into the lower 60s, Memorial Day weekend marked the first exodus of the season to the Hamptons.

The stores along Main Street in East Hampton were servicing finicky shoppers; the brunch patrons at Surf Lodge on Sunday morning, May 24, recommended chef Sam Talbot‘s “Oh. My. God.” Read More