Arts

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, affectionately known as the Art Barge, has announced its summer classes, which will begin Monday with studio painting.

Noel Coward’s 1930 play "Private Lives" is a tricky one. Written in three feverish days in a Shanghai hotel while Coward was bedridden with the flu, it has a sparky energy that’s laced with cruelty.

A distillation of Tony Oursler's "Tear of the Cloud" projections at Riverside Park in October will soon manifest itself at Guild Hall. "Water Memory" will be a museumwide exhibition devoted to the theme of water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history.

“Picturing Old East Hampton: The Beginnings of an Art Colony” will open the Gardiner Mill Cottage Gallery on June 7.

Solo shows at Duck Creek and Drawing Room, new gallery in Amagansett, big show in Sag Harbor church, Frank Wimberley in Chelsea, much more

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will continue its tradition of opening up the South Fork high season with a benefit cocktail party and sale Saturday at its Thrift and Treasure Shop in Sagaponack.

This summer Bay Street Theater will mount three world premiere plays, beginning Tuesday with previews for "The Prompter."

A preview screening of "Late Night" with Emma Thompson, a Pete Seeger sing-along, and LongHouse on the lawn

It’s fitting that Guild Hall will kick off a summer full of music, plays, and comedy with “Call Her Barbra!” and a free workshop production of “Ball of Redemption,” a new dark family comedy by the actress Ellen Dolan.

Group shows galore, tea at the Leiber Collection, tracing art history in Springs, a new Southampton gallery, and more

The Drawing Room Gallery is celebrating its new Main Street second floor gallery with a show of three photographers.

Open gardens, tap dancing, and music, music, music

The recent weavings of Candace Hill Montgomery will launch this year's Parrish Art Museum Road Show at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum on Friday.

The Hampton Theatre Company will open a production of Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, "Private Lives," written in three days while he convalesced from influenza during his travels abroad.

Group show at Ashawagh, McGuinness at Harper's, glass artists at D'Amico, Crandell and Elliot at Studio 11, and more

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will hold its 33rd annual Garden Fair at the Bridgehampton Community House this weekend.

Opera at Guild Hall, standup at Bay Street, classical music at Parrish, open studios in Water Mill, and private gardens

On Saturday, when the Madoo Conservancy opens for the 2019 season, it will also celebrate 25 years as a public garden in Sagaponack with “Madoo: A History in Photographs.”

Music for Montauk will open its fifth season under the leadership of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky with “Endeavor,” a free concert by Sybarite 5, a string quintet, on Saturday afternoon at 4 at the Montauk School.

Those associated with the South Fork were involved in a good portion of the content presented at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.

New exhibit at East Hampton Historical Society, four at Nightingale, Bob Colacello photos, cultural bus tour in Southampton

Given Kimberly Goff's varied pursuits and interests, how would she define herself? “I’m rarely introduced without the line ‘Elaine Benson’s daughter,’ which is fine with me. I am Elaine Benson’s daughter.”

Blanche Wiesen Cook, who wrote one of the definitive biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt, will speak about her subject on Saturday as part of a daylong event to raise awareness of several initiatives involving the former first lady.

How does an artist reconcile the traditions of early landscape photographers with the imperatives of contemporary art? In the case of Thomas Joshua Cooper, he uses the best of both to invent something that is both paean and disruption.

Season previews through immersive theater, storytelling at SAC, Gene Casey in Bridge, Japanese textiles, and much more

HIFF will present three films that recreate the feeling of being at important European exhibitions of masters of painting throughout the centuries.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will reopen today with an exhibition devoted to Joseph Glasco, whose friendships with artists such as Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock left a lasting impression in his work.

A benefit salute to Ken Robbins, AAEH's "Visions of Spring," White Room goes "Retro," Keyes Art's "Women," and much more

The fourth annual Sag Harbor Cultural Heritage Festival will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at locations throughout the village. Sponsored by the 12 members of the Sag Harbor Cultural District, this year’s event, Sag Harbor: The Stories That Shape Us, will highlight the community’s literature, art, music, theater, and history.

Our Fabulous Variety Show’s pleasing revival of “Art,” playing through Sunday at Guild Hall, quite literally offers us a small play about big issues.