Hamptons Fine Art Fair Returns with Bartholdi Sculpture and Monroe Tribute

The Hamptons Fine Art Fair returns July 9-12, 2026, at a 70,000sf complex in Southampton, featuring 130 exhibitors in the Jackson Pollock & Willem de Kooning Pavilions. A centerpiece for America 250 is a 10-foot bronze sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the final available artist proof from an edition of 12, priced at $1M. The fair also presents Marilyn @ 100: The Hamptons Marilyn Monroe Centennial Tribute with Bert Stern's The Last Sitting photographs. Other programming includes The British are Coming, Again with UK galleries, Trailblazers of Hamptons Abstraction, and the Young Collectors Party with members from The Whitney, Guggenheim, Frick, and Sotheby's Institute. UBS and Heritage Auctions are main sponsors. Founder Rick Friedman, who started ArtHamptons in 2006, has loaned 60 AbEx pieces to Nassau County Museum of Art's 250 Years of Art on Long Island exhibit.