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The Art Scene: 06.28.18

A William Wegman booksigning and new shows at Art Barge, Duck Creek, East Hampton Shed, Halsey McKay, Keyes Art, Ashawagh, Sara Nightingale, and more.

Jun 28, 2018
‘Artists Love Movies’

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will launch a new series of film screenings, “Artists Love Movies,” on Sunday evening in Sag Harbor.

Jun 28, 2018
Eliot Zigmund Eliot Zigmund Featured in Parrish's Alfresco Jazz Series

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will kick off its outdoor music series, Jazz on the Terrace, with a performance by Eliot Zigmund and others on Friday at 6 p.m.

Jun 21, 2018
In her performance “Myth and Infrastructure,” Miwa Matreyek interacts as a shadow puppet with her animations. Guild Hall's Week of Comedy, Animation, and Exploration

Comedy, animation, and live performance is on tap this week at Guild Hall starting on Saturday with Hasan Minhaj.

Jun 21, 2018
Pianofest Returns

Pianofest of the Hamptons will open its 2018 season with a concert at the Southampton Cultural Center on Monday at 5:30 p.m.

Jun 21, 2018
Planters and New Sculptures at LongHouse

The LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will unveil sculptures by Helmut Lang, Alyson Shotz, and Dustin Yellin on Saturday during its Planters On+Off the Ground Event.

Jun 21, 2018
Robin Williams with Richard Pryor at the 1982 People’s Choice Awards SummerDocs: A Celebration of Robin Williams

Those shut out of next week’s sold-out screening of “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind” in East Hampton will find solace in the release of the film on HBO on July 16.

Jun 21, 2018
Sussman Remembers Leibers at the Library

The East Hampton Library will celebrate the lives of Judith Leiber and her husband, Gerson Leiber, on Saturday afternoon.

Jun 21, 2018
A solo show of Jack Smith's drawings and photographs will open at Boo-Hooray Summer Rental in Montauk on Saturday. The Art Scene: 06.21.18

Charles Yoder at Ille Arts; Jack Smith at Boo-Hooray; "Six Artists" at Harper's Books; California artists at Rental, and more

Jun 21, 2018
Wilson Chin’s high-tech set for Bay Street Theater’s production of “Frost/Nixon” includes live cameras and a wall of monitors. Unholy Convergence In ‘Frost/Nixon’ at Bay Street

In “Frost/Nixon,” Peter Morgan focuses on David Frost’s televised interviews with Richard Nixon broadcast three years after his 1974 resignation.

Jun 21, 2018
Carolyn Enger's Classical Piano at Montauk Library

Carolyn Enger, a classical pianist, will perform a free concert of on Sunday at the Montauk Library.

Jun 19, 2018
Sam Green narrated while Yo La Tengo provided a live soundtrack in a presentation of “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller.” 'Love Song' to an Extraordinary Man

In “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller,” Sam Green narrates Fuller’s quest with still images, video, and an original score performed by the indie rock ’n’ roll band Yo La Tengo.

Jun 14, 2018
Art objects in multiple mediums are part of a collection donated to the Whitney Museum of American Art by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, including “Bull VII,” above, a 1973 lithograph, screenprint, and linecut on paper, and “Lamp,” below, a painting on wood. A Major Lichtenstein Donation Goes to Whitney, Archives

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation has given the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York 400 works by the artist to serve as a study collection, the foundation and museum announced last week.

Jun 14, 2018
Chamber Music by Perlman Students on Shelter Island

The Perlman Music Program will present a four-concert chamber music marathon tomorrow and Saturday at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.

Jun 14, 2018
Feel Good Music of '50s and '60s Pop in Montauk

The Montauk Library will present “History of the 1950s and ’60s Through Popular Songs,” a free performance by Marc Black, a blues guitarist, on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Jun 14, 2018
Let There Be Shanties: Women and Whaling in Sag Harbor

Martha Pichey, a playwright and screenwriter, will present a free multimedia event at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum tomorrow evening at 6.

Jun 14, 2018
Francine Fleischer with some of her ARF subjects behind her in her studio Lively Weekend at Madoo

This year’s Much Ado About Madoo will celebrate Jane Iselin, who is retiring as Madoo’s board president after six years.

Jun 14, 2018
Peaks and Troughs,” above, and “The Divine Feminine,” below, are good examples of how Maryam Eisler uses light to dissolve figures into forms in her  photography. Maryam Eisler: Bathing the Form in Light

To enter the world of Maryam Eisler, as luxuriously displayed at Harper’s Books in East Hampton, is to experience a heightened sense of reality within a mythic view of the world.

Jun 14, 2018
Philippe Petit Onstage in East Hampton

Philippe Petit, a high-wire artist and gifted storyteller, will mine his experiences as a magician, street juggler, visual artist, carpenter, equestrian, and writer on June 22.

Jun 14, 2018
The Art Scene: 06.14.18

Hector Leonardi at Drawing Room; contemporary photography at MM Fine Art; "Hamptons Light" at Lehr; performance at White Room, and much more.

Jun 14, 2018
Max Bonbrest, a member of the LongHouse Reserve’s Junior Council, left, was joined by Zandy Reich and Lea Michele at this year’s Salon on the Lawn, the council’s annual party. Youth Movement at LongHouse

Amid concern that its board of trustees was going gray, the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton assembled a junior council of artists and curators that — now in its fifth year — is helping to inject new life into the institution.

Jun 14, 2018
Eva Salzman's Poetry and Song in Manhattan

“Muse of Blues,” a collaborative performance featuring Eva Salzman, a poet based in London, and the Irish singer-composer Christine Tobin, will take place at the Cell in Manhattan tomorrow at 8 p.m.

Jun 7, 2018
Feiffer's Comedy 'Bernard and Huey' Opens This Week

“Bernard and Huey,” a comedy written by Jules Feiffer of East Hampton and directed by Dan Mirvish, will open in theaters across the country and become available on digital platforms tomorrow.

Jun 7, 2018
Wayne Alan Wilcox and Rachel Spencer Hewitt play Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe in “Fellow Travelers” at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Legends Made Human Onstage at Bay Street

A new summer season at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is off to a smashing start with “Fellow Travelers,” an engrossing and beautifully acted new drama by Jack Canfora that runs through June 17.

Jun 7, 2018
Iwan Baan’s “Torre David #2,” from 2011, is a portrait of an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela. Mutability and Distortion

“Image Building,” an exhibition of photographs that have architecture as their subject at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, has an erudite and compelling catalog and a great number of knockout images.

Jun 7, 2018
Perlman Concerts in East Hampton and Shelter Island

The Perlman Music Program will present two concerts this weekend, the first on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton, and the second on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.

Jun 7, 2018
"Liquid," a new series of photographs by Jonathan Clancy will open at Grain Surfboards in Amagansett on Saturday. The Art Scene: 06.07.18

Fireplace Project returns with "9999"; "Badges and Buttons" at Boo Hooray; Jonathan Clancy at Grain Surfboards, "Episode 2: One-Liners" at Rental

Jun 7, 2018
‘Mostly Motown’ Concert at East Hampton Library

The East Hampton Library will be the site of “Mostly Motown,” a concert by Rhonda Denet, a soul-jazz vocalist based in Jersey City, on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Jun 7, 2018
Bay Street Announces Cast for ‘Evita’

Bay Street Theater has announced the cast and creative team for "Evita," the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, which will open on July 31 with Arianna Rosario as Eva Peron, Omar Lopez-Cepero as her husband, Juan Peron, and Trent Saunders as Che. Ms. Rosario and Mr. Lopez-Cepero will be married in November.

Jun 5, 2018
Photographs from “Bonac: Letters From Home,” Tara Israel’s ongoing series documenting the people and landscapes of East Hampton, will be on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in July. Art Exhibitions in the Spirit of John Little

The Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs opens for the season on Saturday with an exhibition of paintings by Cile Downs and a grouping of sculpture on the grounds.

May 30, 2018