The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene

Christina Mossaides Strassfield at the Southampton Arts Center’s recent “Heroines of Abstract Expressionism” in front of works by Michael West (a woman artist who changed her name to escape bias).

The Women Who Shaped the Hamptons Art Scene
Without women artists, philanthropists, gallerists and curators, the East End of Long Island might still belong to potato farmers.

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