Arts

Beginning Wednesday, Tracy Thorne, a playwright and actress, will give 16 live performances on Zoom from her East Hampton home of her new play, “Jack Was Kind."

Michael Weiskopf, a longtime East Hampton resident and frontman for the Dylan cover band the Complete Unknowns, has donated a piano to LTV, allowing the public access station to continue its evolution.

Anderson and McBride Livestream
For those unable to score $500 tickets for Laurie Anderson and Christian McBride’s sold-out concert in Guild Hall’s garden on Saturday evening, there is a consolation prize: The performance will stream live at 8 p.m.

Ms. Anderson, an award-winning visual artist and innovative musician, and Mr. McBride, a six-time Grammy-winning bassist and composer, will be joined by Rubin Kodheli on cello.

Horticulture enthusiasts will have two opportunities next weekend to visit private gardens in Southampton and on Shelter Island, thanks to benefit tours for the Southampton History Museum and the Parrish Art Museum.

“Driven to Abstraction,” Daria Price’s documentary about the $80 million forgery scandal that stunned the art world and led to the collapse of Knoedler & Co., is this week's Hamptons Doc Fest featured film.

Talking is a good way to describe Mr. Birbiglia’s comedy. “The New One,” his Broadway show that opened at the end of 2018 and inspired the book, is right at the corner of stand-up comedy, one-man performance, and storytelling.

New exhibitions at Duck Creek, Drawing Room, Pace, South Etna, Halsey McKay, Harper's Books, and more, plus the annual Springs Improvement Society members show at Ashawagh Hall and a "Cloud Garden" at Guild Hall.

Hamptons Film will hold its 28th Hamptons International Film Festival this year with mix of streamed and live content through drive-in presentations from Oct. 8 through Oct. 14. The films will include a documentary about Harry Chapin, the singer-songwriter from Huntington and founder of Long Island's first food bank.

Southampton Arts Center screens "Guardians of the Galaxy" outdoors and a documentary on Hal Buckner inside and Lynn Blue Band at the Parrish

Dia Bridgehampton's beguiling and intriguing exhibition of 11 four-channel screen prints on linen by Jill Magid form an installation that is a meditation on authorship, legal limitations and their interference with the creative urge, and the power of the individual to circumvent or override them.

“One of the things moving me forward right now, and it has been for a while, is symbiosis,” Darlene Charneco said during a conversation at the William Steeple Davis House in Orient, where she is the resident artist. “I’m learning more about the interspecies mutualisms that have evolved through time and how we are a product of that.”

"Stand by Me" is the latest drive-in offering by the Sag Harbor Cinema at Havens Beach with two new virtual films for screening at home.

A benefit art sale for the Southampton Arts Center, a new gallery in Southampton, and new shows at Nightingale, Colm Rowan, Grain Surfboard, and BCK

"I know it's weird to talk about a muse, but I'm absolutely convinced the muse is real," Anthony Brandt said on a recent summer afternoon, sitting on his backyard deck in Sag Harbor.

Multiple scenes from Beyoncé's "Black Is King," which was released on July 31, were filmed at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island and in Guild Hall's galleries in East Hampton.

Portraits music series returns next week, outdoor screenings in Southampton, and a new virtual reading at Guild Hall.

Lindsay Morris’s most recent project, “A Small Taste of Freedom,” which will open Friday at Guild Hall, focuses on the here and now and close to home.

New drive by and walk by outdoor sculpture, SHechet's indoor sculpture at Pace, three solos at MM Fine Art, a new show at Harper's Books, Phillips opens in Southamption, Tripoli Gallery's return, and more

In person and virtual music offerings and a drag brunch are on offer this week.

A raconteur, writer, and composer of satirical songs, Christopher Mason has been coming to the East End every summer for 35 years, much of it spent at a friend’s house in Sag Harbor.

Hauser & Wirth confirmed the arrival of an international gallery powerhouse on Southampton's Main Street with a striking yet restrained sign out front and the installation of sleek and playful sculptural benches by Louise Bourgeois in the green space behind it.

Four films about racial inequality and the connection between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and contemporary events will be featured in this year’s Black Film Festival, a presentation of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

Pace Gallery partners with fellow behemoths, Gagosian and Acquavella, to present 40 works on paper from the late Donald B. Marron's collection, and much more.

The plays are the thing at Guild Hall, both virtually and live, starting Sunday with “The Pack: Short Comedies by Eugene Pack,” three plays featuring exceptional casts that will be available via YouTube Live at 8 p.m.

“Andromeda’s Sisters,” the Neo-Political Cowgirls’ two-part virtual arts and advocacy program, will kick off Friday evening at 7:30 with a show of monologues written by female-identifying playwrights and performed by notable actors.

Although not yet publicly announced, Phillips auction house proclaimed its presence in the Hamptons this week with a demure and obviously temporary sign at the rather showy location of 1 Nugent Street in Southampton Village.

Guild Hall continues outdoor programs, a surf movie night livestream, Jazz on the Terrace at the Parrish, and more.

Hiroyuki Hamada was inspired to organize "Three Painters at Duck Creek," an exhibition of works by Elliott Green, Eric Banks, and Sean Sullivan, after showing there himself last summer.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons has organized a Virtual Evening With Isaac Mizrahi in Sunday. He will be joined by friends such as Bob Balaban, Sandra Bernhard, and more.

Although he was scheduled to have a summer exhibition at Guild Hall, Robert Longo came up with a better plan for this year's unique circumstances. It involved his artist friends and giving back to the arts institution.