Arts

The Sag Harbor Cinema has launched "Minutes," an online series of short clips from cinema classics introduced and contextualized by Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, the theater's artistic director.

James Croak's career has been marked by his experimental use of materials in sculpture. This has continued with his successful efforts to cast forms out of dirt, a process he began exploring in 1985.

Through Jan. 17, the Saul Steinberg show at Pace Gallery celebrates one of East Hampton's pre-eminent artists, and one who defied labels and the norms of his contemporaries. Consequently, his art remains particularly fresh on first and subsequent viewings. Those who first saw the show when it opened are likely to be rewarded on a second, third, or even fourth look.

Lois Dodd and Alex Katz downstairs at the Drawing Room, a discussion of the friendship between Fairfield Porter and Jane Freilicher at the Parrish, and more.

The Watermill Center's annual series Viewpoints: Nights @ the Roundtable, which features conversations with artists working across a range of disciplines, will take place online via Zoom on four consecutive Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m., starting on Jan. 6 with the Daxophone Consort.

Eric Firestone, whose eponymous gallery opened on Newtown Lane in East Hampton 10 years ago, has always followed his own path. While most gallery owners learn their trade by working for other dealers, Mr. Firestone opened his first gallery, in Tucson, Ariz., in 1994, when he was 21. Just last month he launched a ground-floor space on Great Jones Street in NoHo.

Joe Brainard's collages are on view downtown in East Hampton, while a pop-up show lands at Union Steak and Sushi in Southampton.

With less gathering and more cocooning this holiday season, don't forget the rich trove of virtual offerings by South Fork's arts organizations when it's time to cozy up to the couch.

The internationally known textile designer, collector, and author died at his home at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Tuesday.

At any year's end, it's a good time to take stock and reflect on what has happened since the last Jan. 1. This year might require something deeper and more elaborate.

Since March, the Willem de Kooning Foundation has provided $550,000 in grants and challenge grants to several East End organizations, with a focus on Springs, to address hunger, child care, and medical care. That is in addition to contributions of $2.15 million to the much broader arts community.

Rigor is a word that comes up again and again in the discussion of Dorothy Ruddick's life. The artist, who devised a way that fiber art could be used in combination with drawing and painting to create something else entirely, is on the precipice of a significant rediscovery.

"Julian Schnabel: Trees of Home (For Peter Beard),” features six new plate paintings dedicated to Beard, who was his neighbor in Montauk, and will open Saturday at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton has announced the addition of four new members to its board of trustees: Caroline Baumann, Derick T. George, Ayse Manyas Kenmore, and Fitzhugh Karol.

An outdoor sculpture tour at the Parrish Art Museum, the holiday invitational at Romany Kramoris, and new shows and a new New York City space for Harper's

Classical piano, a holiday cabaret streamed live from New York, and a zoom lecture about breaking into the arts field

It's fitting that South Etna gallery. has given over its two rooms to Karen Kilimnik, whose works are best experienced in the aggregate as part of a thematic experience. They build on themselves in a way that makes each part more meaningful and act as a mini survey as well.

James Croak's cast dirt sculptures in Southampton, Paul Davis's prints in Sag Harbor, and more

During the closing of cultural institutions last spring and after, Warren Neidich has emerged as a cultural force of his own. In May, he organized "Drive-By-Art," an outdoor public art exhibition where 62 South Fork artists exhibited their work on their properties, near roads, or on sidewalks.

Virtual concerts and variety shows, a "drive-by" Merry Madoo, and more

Kevin Teare's mid-to-late 1970s artworks are inflected with the Minimalist tendencies still prevalent during that period in New York. Yet they also signal the same shift other artists were making away from the movement's strictures.

While most biographies may be undertaken because of the writer's interest in the subject, Neal Gabler begins "with a question I want to explore. And then I find the subject who enables me to explore that question in a narrative way."

With the opening of the Sag Harbor Cinema Center delayed because of the pandemic, Jamie Hook, the executive director, is using the time to brainstorm ways to usher the theater from its art house past to a blockbuster future.

Phillips design stars on view in Southampton, Duck Creek pops up at Fireplace Project, the latest edition of the Thanksgiving Collective, Miami's art week shows up on these shores, and more

Most holiday-themed events are virtual this year, but the East Hampton Historical Society is offering two on-site events to celebrate the season.

The Southampton Arts Center’s “Raconteurs” storytelling series, hosted by Amy Kirwin, will return in virtual form next ‘Thursday at 7 p.m.

This year’s Hamptons Doc Fest will present a slate of 28 features and seven shorts virtually, over a 10-day period. Now in its 13th year, the festival has a diverse lineup covering politics, history, science, biography, social justice, the environment, and the arts.

A life spent living on both coasts has always inspired Mary Heilmann's artwork. This year, it has taken a more literal form and is on view in Southampton.

Emmanuel and Christina Di Donna have taken years of experience in the art world and channeled it into a jewel box of a showroom on Job's Lane in Southampton. Selavy by Di Donna aggregates both high art and design objects into livable spaces where everything is for sale.

A career survey with a seasonal focus at South Etna, members show applications, Jeremy Dennis's Dreamstarter grant, and more.