Arts

The Hamptons Arts Network, a group of 19 nonprofit arts organizations on the South Fork that banded together a few years ago, has been a lifeline for its members during the Covid-19 crisis. Now, the group is directing some of its resources outward to help the creative community around them.

Hamptons Film has revealed it will offer a series of 12 drive-in screenings at the Hayground School beginning with "The Wizard of Oz" on July 6. In addition, it is offering rentals of its screening equipment and staffing for private use at several levels -- from backyard to community center and country club.

Openings of Guild Hall, Madoo, and Southampton Arts Center, Joe Zucker speaks, a benefit concert, and more

With New Yorkers hunkered down in their second homes on the South Fork since March and in no hurry to return, owners of prominent New York galleries -- Pace, Skarstedt, and Van de Weghe Fine Art, among them -- have followed their customers, moving east for an extended seasion or even multiple years.

LongHouse opens for the seasons, many gallery openings, a McNally film, and more

"Art Apart," a roadside art exhibition open to all East Hampton residents, will populate the town's byways with a variety of artworks.

Tomashi Jackson speaks at the Parrish, a film trilogy streams on the East Hampton Library's Facebook page, “Shirley” will be streamed by the Sag Harbor Cinema, and more.

Josh Gladstone, the artistic director of Guild Hall’s theater programs, summed up the paradox of planning events this summer: “It’s an exercise in Zen Buddhism. How do you create performing arts programming in a theater that doesn’t exist?”

Area musicians hope to raise money for East End hunger, a discussion of a new book on Krasner, and more

“How often do we put masks on to deal with certain things in our life, and how often do we take them off and feel vulnerable?” said Charity Joy Robinson, who taught the dance last Thursday on the lawn at the North Sea Community House for a small, socially-distanced group of students.

Duck Creek's programs and exhibitions directly relate to the present Springs artist community and its history as an art colony going back decades. Given this precedent, the site has become inextricably linked to its programs. That is a challenge in a socially distanced time

New online classes, an easement closes for the Sag Harbor Cinema, the Hampton Theatre Company announces the postponement of some of its plays, and more

Move over, “The Affair.” In the stranger than fiction department, a Sag Harbor filmmaker is shopping a screenplay about a Montauk mechanic, his years-long dispute with the town, and the romance he shared with his late partner.

Drive-In style movie screenings kick off this weekend with "Raiders," a celebration of Toni Morrison, Saul Steinberg, and more

The director of the Parrish Art Museum will step down at the end of June, the museum announced on Thursday. Ms. Sultan has been director for the past 12 years and oversaw the museum's move from Southampton Village to its current headquarters in Water Mill in 2012.

Cat burglars stole $375K in jewels from the tenor’s house in 1920.

Running into Warren Neidich on the beach in Wainscott was pure happenstance, but led to Toni Ross and Sara Salaway participating in his “Drive-by-Art” regional outdoor exhibition on May 9 and 10, during which their collaborative piece “When” was installed.

Tales of elevator encounters and rehearsals with a ‘nuclear reactor’ of a performer.

Once planned as a traditional installation, the next Parrish Art Museum show, “Telling Stories: Reframing the Narratives,” promises to push the boundaries of the virtual exhibition.     

Virtual screenings of documentaries, Tennessee Williams celebrated at Guild Hall, portraits during Covid time, and more

Whitehead wins second Pulitzer, Pollock-Krasner House's show for the season opens virtually, a workshop on opera, a virtual art fair booth, and more.

As both commercial and nonprofit art spaces pivot to an online setting, viewers still hunger for art out of the virtual sphere. A number of spaces and a special outdoor exhibition this weekend are making interactions with art objects possible again in real life.

Two at the Drawing Room, about Anne Porter at the Parrish, and virtual chamber performances from the Perlman program.

The summer arts scene will look very different this year, even if rules for gatherings are relaxed here. Expect to see outdoor play readings, limits or appointments required for access to gardens and art venues, and the return of the drive-in movie, with anticipated reopenings beginning in July.

New virtual offerings from Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and Our Fabulous Variety Show

Members Exhibition Online

Guild Hall’s 82nd Artist Members Exhibition is available online in two formats. Each of the 435 artworks can be seen individually along with its specifications, sale price, and purchasing options. Moving a cursor over each image yields a close-up view. In addition, two tracking shots float through the galleries to afford a glimpse of each work and the overall installation.  

Bay Street's Virtual Programs

Members Show goes online, Bay Street offers theater classes, Sag Cinema chooses some films to stream, and Halsey McKay in the flesh

Arts organizations including the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Bay Street Theater, and the Parrish Art Museum have modified their educational programs for families and children to offer them digitally and free of charge. 

Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright and poet who won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, once said that “art is solace, art is vision,” and while the context of that sentiment isn’t readily available, one could imagine it being said during a time of strife.

Folioeast’s “Winter Salon” in East Hampton is a vast undertaking in a small space, a miracle of placement and size management with an eye for hanging artwork so that it melds into a cohesive whole. Although it is hard to measure an exhibition of so many artists and their unique contributions, it is worth examining the highlights and the ensemble.