Special Events
Session 1: VIP “First-Look” Opening Preview
Benefits Guild Hall
Join avid art enthusiasts to be among the first to enter, view, and acquire exciting and important works of art. Benefit from the fast track “off-peak” traffic time. Enjoy select wine tastings and specialty cocktails. Plus access to one session either Saturday or Sunday. Your ticket provides same category gratis access (receive unique passcode after registering for the art fair) to the new Hamptons Jewelry Show, July 24-27, same location.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Session2: VIP Opening Preview Evening
Benefits Parrish Art Museum
One of the most anticipated and chic evenings of the summer season. Join avid art enthusiasts to be among the first to enter, view, and acquire exciting and important works of art. Enjoy select wine tastings and specialty cocktails. Plus access to one session either Saturday or Sunday. Your ticket provides same category gratis access (receive unique passcode after registering for the art fair) to the new Hamptons Jewelry Show, July 24-27, same location.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Session 1: VIP Collectors Day Opening
An opportunity to view and select artworks prior to public opening on Saturday. Featuring live music, tastings and receive an Official HFAF handsome cotton tote bag (while supplies last). Benefit from off-peak traffic time. Enjoy outdoor lunch from our 3 food sources.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Interview with artist Yigal Ozeri
Rick Friedman interviews the legendary Israeli photorealism artist, Yigal Ozeri, 68, known for his young women amidst natural settings, such as rain forests and deserts. His amazingly detailed works have a subtle tone of fantasy and allegory. His work is almost indistinguishable from a photograph.
Session 2: VIP Collectors Day Opening
Last chance to view and select artworks prior to the public opening on Saturday. Featuring live music, tastings and receive an Official HFAF handsome cotton tote bag (while supplies last). Opportunity to enjoy dinner from our 3 food sources.
Meet Hunt Slonem – With book signing
Rick Friedman interviews the renowned artist Hunt Slonem. He is immediately recognized for his distinctive neo-expressionist style, focusing on exotic birds, rabbits, and butterflies. All with a lightness of being. His repetitive figures, in brilliant colors, fill the composition. His work is in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including The Guggenheim, The Whitney and MoMA.
Young Collectors Night Party
Hosted by Leo Braudy, Netflix Reality star
A high-powered mixer with members of Young Collector committees from several prestigious NYC area museums, individual collectors under 40, are invited. Enjoy spirits tastings at this convivial celebration of connoisseurship.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Meet Artist Ted Hartley 2025 Hamptons Artists Hall of Fame Inductee
Rick Friedman interviews the abstract artist Ted Hartley. His work reveals a thoughtful exploration of medium, texture, color, and energy. Through his art, he continues to discover and grow, reflecting an amazing lifetime of enormous resilience and boundless creativity. His life’s journey reads like a fiction novel–from Navy fighter pilot, to White House aide, Olympic wrestler, actor, and CEO of RKO Pictures, painting became a meaningful pursuit, while caring for his wife, actress Dina Merrill.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Meet artist Giancarlo Impiglia
Celebrate Art Deco at 100. Rick Friedman interviews the remarkable art deco inspired Bridgehamptons artist Giancarlo Impiglia, 85. He participated in the famed Absolut Vodka campaign of the 80s and through the 80s and 90s exhibited in numerous NYC galleries, weaving himself into the artistic fabric of the city. Impiglia has not been limited to his recognizable signature style, but has found new ways to comment upon contemporary society and the ironies of the art world.
Docent Gene Seidman 45-minute guided tour with headsets
45-minute expert-led tour with docent Gene Seidman, with headset and music. One tour is offered for every time slot. Fee $20pp, limited to 20 per tour. All tours start 30 minutes after the beginning of each time slot. (For example, if your time slot begins at 11am, tour begins 11:30 am from the VIP Lounge).
Gerard Byrne – Live painting performance
One of Ireland’s leading visual artists, Gerard Byrne, is known for his revival of the impressionist and plein air traditions of Ireland. Kickoff discussion with Rick Friedman to explore the process, sensibility, and vision that will produce a masterpiece work at the fair, in real time in front of our eyes.
