Arts

Seven South Fork galleries and scores of East End artists will be in the mix at Miami art week this year.

There is something loose and special about the Sag Harbor art gallery community, which can treat its art shows as intuitive and impromptu affairs. Often an open forum, it is not unusual for artists and curators to join the spaces in a last-minute collaboration.

Kathryn Szoka and Maryann Calendrille, who own Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, are on a first-name basis with one of their favorite poets, Emily Dickinson.

Galleries showing small works for holiday shoppers include Grenning and Romany Kramoris, and a Long Island artists show further west.

Now in its 12th year, Hamptons Doc Fest continues to grow with a new venue, the Southampton Arts Center, new awards and a first-class line up of films.

While some leaves still stubbornly cling to their trees, the turkey is roasting in the oven, and it finally seems appropriate for Christmas decorations and music, Bay Street Theater reminds us that it is never too early to think about summer.

The onset of winter might leave its gardens less hospitable, but the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack has other year-round enticements, including a painting exhibition and a book signing, both of which will take place this weekend in its summer studio.

Parrish offers shopping and surf film this weekend, late-night comedy at Bay Street Theater, and more.

“Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections From the Guild Hall Permanent Collection,” is notable for reminding us about the people behind the pictures and sculptures now on view.

Caplan Rose, a Sag Harbor company that organizes small, private tours of gardens, art, and architecture in the English countryside, has announced two spring excursions.

Halsey McKay has two new shows, Tripoli Gallery found a new space for its "Collective, and Beth O'Donnell has an open studio.

Bruce Wolosoff, a Shelter Island composer, has recently written a cello concerto that has been recorded by a Grammy Award-winning artist and one of the world’s top orchestras, and the album rose to the top 10 in a leading classical music chart.

Ted Hartley has lived such a full life that he could be excused for spending his days on the deck of his oceanfront house listening to the waves roll in.

The first sentence of the production notes for a new documentary about Audrey Flack describes her as an octogenarian and a trailblazer. What is clear from the film and can be corroborated by anyone who knows her is that she is much more of the latter than the former.

Though she may be better known locally for performances with South Fork bands, Evgenia Zilberberg, a Ross School instructor, is a trained violinist and vocalist with a distinguished history in classical music.

A post Thanksgiving house and garden tour, a multimedia presentation on climate change in Montauk, Native American heritage celebrated in Southampton, and more

A fire broke out in Michael Combs’s Southold sculpture studio on Nov. 8, destroying or damaging nine sculptures along with tools, decoys, and other carvings. The sculptures represented more than a year’s labor.

The Met: Live in HD will simulcast the company’s premiere of Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” on Saturday at Guild Hall. Written in 1983, it is “the third in a trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas.”

Bay Street’s Theater’s bracing revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun,” directed by Lydia Fort, absorbingly captures the militant passion and raw pain of being a black person in a white world.

Coco Myers said that when organizing the exhibition that became “For the Love of Painting” at Folioeast in East Hampton, she was inspired by painters who had been working for some time but had departed from their regular practices. The work the artists brought in was so fresh, in fact, that some of the paintings finished drying on the gallery walls.

Parrish receives a gift of Steinbergs, Sonnier on view in Chelsea, Carly Haffner at Guild Hall, modernism celebrated at Keyes Art, and more

On the 60th anniversary of the play’s first production on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” will open at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor Thursday evening and continue public performances through Dec. 1.

In Process at Watermill Center on Saturday, a screening of the play "Hansard" now running in London at Guild Hall, 60s pop at the library, and more.

“Every once in a while we jump right into the heavy, but this year we thought, let’s bring some comedy,” said Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, which organizes the Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons.

The Southampton Arts Center will launch two exhibitions devoted to printmaking with an open portfolio session, a print press demonstration, a panel discussion, and a public reception.

For the Rising Stars Piano Series on Saturday, Kara Huber, a Canadian-American concert artist, performed a program confirming her international renown for a flair for contemporary music. The mostly American program was in some ways a bit lighter than the typical piano recital, but no less substantial.

Ralph Gibson was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy after dropping out of high school. After qualifying for training as a photographer’s mate, he flunked out of photography school. Sixty-two years later, his photography earned him France’s highest order of merit, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

De Niro in the city, a studio visit, Cold War architecture, a new group show at Sara Nightingale, and more.

Although Courtney Sale Ross is now known primarily for the school that bears her name, there was a time when she was a producer and director of documentary films, including one on her neighbor Willem de Kooning.

The week in culture includes Shakespeare and Puccini screenings at Guild Hall, a salute to Julie Andrews, and short films at the Parrish Art Museum.