Arts

Motown, storytelling for Valentine's Day, and two Watermill residents share their work in this week's cultural offerings.

The arc of Eric Haze’s career in art, graphic design, and fashion began in Elaine de Kooning’s cold-water loft near Union Square when he was 10 years old. Almost 50 years later it has come full circle.

There is a photo on the Halsey McKay gallery’s website that shows the studio of Colby Bird, its current downstairs artist exhibitor, in Coxsackie, N.Y. It’s a small upstate town, 25 miles south of Albany.

The latest in regional art news and exhibitions

Ursula Von Rydingsvard came to New York City in 1975, when she was 33. “I feel that is when I was born,” she says in a new documentary by Daniel Traub that will be shown Friday evening at the Parrish Art Museum.

The Shelter Island Friends of Music will open its 2020 concert series with a performance by Eric Silberger, an award-winning violinist, on Sunday at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church.

Comedy, theater, music, and the return of Zima!

On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, HamptonsFilm will screen Roland Joffe’s “The Mission,” from 1986, which received seven Oscar nominations, including a win for cinematography. A conversation with Alec Baldwin will follow.

Skylar Day's sensibilities are at once dusty boots and folk music and the fiery power chords of a heavy metal guitar player in the band Gravitywell.

Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” an "instantaneously recognizable masterpiece,” will have its Long Island premiere on Feb. 16 at Bay Street Theater.

Hiroyuki Hamada’s paintings reveal an emotive and sometimes even gestural approach that seems at odds with his more considered and restrained sculptures.

A film on Clyfford Still at the Parrish, East End artists in New York and abroad, and a call for artists.

The Real East End Brass Band can be found jamming New Orleans brass band jazz standards, mashing in the sounds of classic rock, ska, reggae, and punk, composing original music, and playing high-energy shows at local breweries, restaurants, festivals, and other venues.

A pure experiment has already evolved into a tradition as 10 artists begin their takeover the Southampton Arts Center for two months.

Almodovar, Gershwin, classic country music, LongHouse's winter benefit, and more in this week's cultural offerings

The Watermill Center has announced its 18 artist residents for 2020 and the award of four Inga Maren Otto Fellowships.

Photography was an essential part of Andy Warhol's process — the source for sketches that became drawings and illustrations he used as a commercial artist and privately and later the images he chose to reproduce for his silkscreens.

Arlene Bujese's annual group show at Markel and new shows by Nivola and Dever opening in the area

Arthur Miller’s play “All My Sons” will be screened Friday night at Guild Hall in a performance recorded previously from the Old Vic in London.

A new film by Yaron Zilberman, an Israeli-American, goes back to a time when peace between Palestinians and Israelis was not only conceivable but even imminent, and illustrates why efforts by both sides to achieve it have ultimately failed.

The Church, an arts and cultural center planned for the old Methodist Church in Sag Harbor, has its first director as of Jan. 1.

This mostly mild winter will heat up a little more on Saturday when Andy Aledort and the Groove Kings come to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for a 10 p.m. show.

A night of live music will happen at LTV Studios in Wainscott tomorrow at 7 with performances by two Long Island funk bands, the Kenny Harris Project and Funkin’ A.

Do white liberals hate themselves? Are quota systems fair, or even logical? How dark must your skin be to be considered a “person of color”? These are just some of the questions raised by “Admissions," a satire chosen by the Hampton Theatre Company.

Love and Passion returns, Bird and Little fly solo at Halsey McKay, and more

Devon Leaver, who as a child sang in the aisles of local grocery stores, has both film and voice projects attracting attention and audiences this month in places such as the Sundance Film Festival.

Classes in playwriting and improv at Guild Hall, "Les Miserables" brings the French classic up to date via HamptonsFilm, and stand-up comedy returns to Bay Street

Certain figures in history are so avant-garde they often have to wait years and even decades for the world to catch up to them. The artist Louise Bourgeois is one of those visionaries. A film at the Parrish explores her legacy.

Joshua Harmon's “Admissions,” an examination of white privilege, white power, white anxiety, and white guilt, will begin a three-week run by the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue Thursday. It is directed by Andrew Botsford.

Edward Albee's “A Delicate Balance” has neither the savage extravagance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” nor the psychodramatic ingenuity of “Three Tall Women.” But the production at the Southampton Cultural Center is a commendable one.