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All About ‘Chicago’

All About ‘Chicago’

At the Ross School in East Hampton
By
Star Staff

Rob Marshall and John DeLuca will screen and discuss their film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Chicago” on Sunday in the Senior Lecture Hall at the Ross School in East Hampton as part of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s American Values film series.

The film was as successful as the theatrical production, winning an Academy Award for best picture of 2002 along with five other Oscars. A comedy musical, the story addresses themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz Age Chicago. Mr. Marshall, a veteran of the theater, directed and choreographed the film. The free screening and talk will begin at 2 p.m.

The Art Scene: 02.15.18

The Art Scene: 02.15.18

Local Art News
By
Mark Segal

Valentine From Janet Lehr

“Valentine and Art: Together Forever,” a group exhibition, will open at Janet Lehr Fine Arts in East Hampton with a reception Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. and continue through March 7. The gallery has suggested that revelers wear “a touch of red” to the opening.

The exhibition will include several unique Bert Stern photographs of Marilyn Monroe and paintings and sculpture by the contemporary artists David Demers, Adam Handler, Ron Agam, Haim Mizrahi, Colin Christian, Christopher Deeton, and Shimon Okshteyn. Flower studies by Warren Brandt and Paul Georges and figure studies by Balcomb Greene and Paul Resika will also be on view.

 

Virva Hinnemo in SoHo

“Four Feet,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Virva Hinnemo, will open Wednesday at the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will remain on view through April 21.

Ms. Hinnemo’s new paintings reflect a shift from cardboard as her primary surface to canvas and works on paper, but she continues to apply broad swaths of paint that, while not thickly applied, have a straightforward, material presence.

According to a press release, “Her language is spare and unaffected. . . . The virtues of paint are abundant but frugal, open-ended yet tough-minded. . . . [her] blunt inscriptions are made exclusively by hand and give the impression of signs or symbols observed directly from life and always on her own terms.” Ms. Hinnemo, who was born in Finland, earned a B.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design and has lived in Springs since 2012.

 

Four Photographers

“Winter to Spring,” a show of work by four photographers, is on view at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor through April 10. Stephen Wilkes’s “Day to Night” series captures sites throughout the world, among them the crowded beaches of Coney Island and Santa Monica, Calif. Daniel Jones’s photographs from the “Seaside Expressions” series take a painterly approach to the medium. 

Blair Seagram’s images of surfers are inspired in part by “their keen sense of timing catching a wave then riding across it.” Roberto Dutesco is best known for his photographs of wild horses on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

 

Southampton Art Show

The Southampton Artists Association will hold its winter art show at the Southampton Cultural Center from Wednesday through March 4. Receptions will be held Feb. 24 and March 3, both days from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition will include oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, mixed media, sculpture, and photographs.­

Women’s Work, Radical Voices, 23 Artists

Women’s Work, Radical Voices, 23 Artists

Almond Zigmund has been using an automatic drawing technique with collage to explore new ideas in her artwork. Some of these will inform the installation she plans for “A Radical Voice: 23 Women” at the Southampton Arts Center.
Almond Zigmund has been using an automatic drawing technique with collage to explore new ideas in her artwork. Some of these will inform the installation she plans for “A Radical Voice: 23 Women” at the Southampton Arts Center.
An exhibition of living and working female artists who have been fierce in protecting the time they spend in the studio
By
Jennifer Landes

Long before time was up or people were saying “me too,” women in creative fields spent decades and even centuries fighting to have their voices heard and their output seen. The East End is rife with stories of female visual artists, in particular, carving out time for themselves to create while balancing career, family, and often the promotion of their artist husbands. 

“A Radical Voice: 23 Women” is an exhibition of living and working female artists who have been fierce in protecting the time they spend in the studio, according to Janet Goleas, who serves as curator of the exhibition opening on Saturday at the Southampton Arts Center.

“It’s not a show you see out here often,” she said, speaking of the group, which consists of artists she has known for years and others who were new to her “who are deeply, deeply involved in their own studio practice.”

She said she took advantage of the nonprofit institutional setting to push the show’s parameters and exhibit art “that is not necessarily commercially viable or sellable.”

Almond Zigmund is one of the artists who will bring new work to the show. She has recently returned to the studio after a period of devoting much of her energy to a full-time job at the Watermill Center. “One of the reasons, I took the job was to get some distance from how I was working,” she said. And then leaving the job gave her a chance to start fresh. 

She began exploring ideas with drawings and collage, “almost like automatic drawing, not thinking too much, something like gesture studies.” The ideas that have come out of that process will serve as the inspiration for a wall installation treating “the wall and the space in front of the wall as one big picture plane . . . with collage elements of cardboard and vinyl, light elements,” and paint. 

Ms. Zigmund does not usually work this way. In exploring previously how environments and space affect our perceptions, “I’ve labored over materiality and fabrication,” sometimes leading to overdesign. “Now, I’m trying to free myself of that yoke to be spontaneous with materials and the installation, and not plan everything out.” Assembling the art in the space rather than preplanning it in the studio will be a “radical experiment for me,” and “working in this way makes the possibility of failing much higher . . . and that can be just as interesting to see.”

Other artists whose work will be on view include Olive Ayhens, Amanda Church, Martha Clippinger, Connie Fox, Regina Gilligan, Tamara Gonzales, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Lisa Hein, Priscilla Heine, Hilary Helfant, Elana Herzog, Alice Hope, Laurie Lambrecht, Judith Linhares, Erika Ranee, Judy Richardson, Bonnie Rychlak, Toni Ross, Drew Shiflett, Jeanne Silverthorne, Zina Saro-Wiwa, and Jude Tallichet.

Ms. Goleas, an artist herself, said she planned to bring the artists together in a somewhat freeform way. “The thing I like to do is develop a conversation between the artworks. Some artists will have one piece, some will have five or six.” She said everyone has put together a slightly different configuration of their work. “I see the visitor’s eye and mind bouncing around the room among these different voices,” some slow and methodical, and others explosive and electric. “I can’t wait to see what happens.” 

There will be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday. The show will remain on view through March 25.

'Indecent' and JDT Lab at Guild Hall This Week

'Indecent' and JDT Lab at Guild Hall This Week

A scene from "Indecent," which will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday
A scene from "Indecent," which will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday
Carol Rosegg
BroadwayHD’s encore screening of “Indecent” on Saturday
By
Star Staff

Guild Hall will present BroadwayHD’s encore screening of “Indecent” on Saturday at 7 p.m. The play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel was called “superbly realized and remarkably powerful” by the New York Times critic Ben Brantley when it opened last April. 

The play was inspired by the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of the English translation of Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “God of Vengeance.” Set in a brothel, that play included Jewish prostitutes, a lesbian scene, and the hurling of a Torah across the stage. Its run was cut short when the cast and producer were indicted and convicted of obscenity.

“Indecent” earned a Tony Award nomination for best play, and Rebecca Taichman took home the Tony for her direction. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

The next offering in Guild Hall’s JDT Lab will be a free performance of “Small Among Infinite Stars,” a Box Collective production written by Matthew Minnicino, on Tuesday evening at 7:30. A Manhattan actor, writer, director, and teacher, Mr. Minnicino has created full-length theater pieces, adaptations, and one-acts.

Inspired by Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “Small Among Infinite Stars” was described on Guild Hall’s website as “a triptych of interlaced interrogations of explosive, uncomfortable, radiant womanhood — torn from the corridors of fact, the high towers of fantasy, and the endless night sky of pure fiction.” Reservations have been suggested.

Live Jazz: The Jam Session Returns to Southampton

Live Jazz: The Jam Session Returns to Southampton

At the Southampton Arts Center
By
Star Staff

The Southampton Arts Center and the Jam Session will kick off the 2018 season with “Keeping Live Jazz Alive,” a concert to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America’s Keyed Up! program, on Saturday. Doors open at 6 p.m. for a pre-concert reception catered by Bay Burger and Union Cantina. The music will begin at 7.

Hosted by Ed German and Brian Cosgrove of WPPB 88.3 FM, the program will feature Ray Anderson on trombone, Claire Daly on baritone saxophone, Jay Rodriguez on tenor saxophone, Morris Goldberg on alto saxophone, Diego Urcola on trumpet, Santi Debriano on bass, Bill O’Connell on piano, and Claes Brondal on drums.

For 26 years, the Jazz Foundation of America has provided financial, medical, and legal assistance to jazz and blues veterans in need. Keyed Up! is dedicated to sustaining live jazz in part by helping defray the costs of musicians’ fees for participating venues.

Tickets are $40 and available at brownpapertickets.com.

HIFF 'Now Showing' at Bay Street and More

HIFF 'Now Showing' at Bay Street and More

“The Other Side of Hope” by Aki Kaurismaki will be screened at Bay Street Theater on Sunday as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s winter series.
“The Other Side of Hope” by Aki Kaurismaki will be screened at Bay Street Theater on Sunday as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s winter series.
The winter film series continues
By
Star Staff

The Hamptons International Film Festival will continue its Now Showing series in February with five screenings at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and Guild Hall in East Hampton. 

Next up is “The Other Side of Hope,” a film by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, at Bay Street on Sunday at 1 p.m. The story follows two people, a Syrian refugee and a Finnish businessman at loose ends, whose lives intersect. 

Richard Brody of The New Yorker called the film a “spare, puckish, yet ruefully clear-eyed comedic drama,” and A.O. Scott characterized it as “humane and gravely funny” in The New York Times.

Subsequent February programs are “The Novitiate,” a drama about a 17-year-old who begins to question her faith as she studies to become a nun; “The Insult,” a Lebanese drama focused on an explosive trial pitting a Lebanese Christian against a Palestinian refugee; a program of Academy Award-nominated animated and live action short films, and the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Strangers on a Train.” 

Tickets to each program are $15, $12 for film festival members.

Poetica Ensemble to Play in Bridgehampton

Poetica Ensemble to Play in Bridgehampton

At the Bridgehampton Museum's archives building
By
Star Staff

The Bridgehampton Museum will present a concert by the Poetica Ensemble on Saturday afternoon at 3 at its archives building at 2539-A Montauk Highway.

The chamber ensemble has been performing for more than a decade at concert halls throughout the greater New York area, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Scorca Hall, as well as abroad in Asia, Europe, and Canada. The group consists of Song-A Cho on violin, Christopher Shaughnessy on viola, Rebecca Perea on cello, and Terry Keevil on oboe.

Inda Goes for Most

Inda Goes for Most

At the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse in Bridgehampton
By
Star Staff

Inda Eaton will play a concert Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse in Bridgehampton as a benefit for Project Most. Hers is part of the fourth annual Songwriters Share concert series, in which each musician participating selects a different nonprofit to receive proceeds. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets, which include a reception, are $20, $15 for those over 65.

Latin Dance Classes in Southampton

Latin Dance Classes in Southampton

At the Southampton Cultural Center
By
Star Staff

The Southampton Cultural Center will continue its monthly celebrations of Latin dance on Saturday evening from 7 to 11. Presented by Jaime Ruiz, a Cuban salsa teacher who studied at the Mangosta Academy in Santiago, Chile, with support from Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, the programs are geared to both beginners and those with advanced Latin dance skills. Tickets are $10, $5 for children, and include light refreshments. Future festivities are planned for April 21 and May 20.

Theater Alfresco in Montauk

Theater Alfresco in Montauk

A scene from last year's edition of "Zima!", a theatrical interactive winter journey taking place in Montauk on Saturday.
A scene from last year's edition of "Zima!", a theatrical interactive winter journey taking place in Montauk on Saturday.
Jane Bimson
'Zima!' returns
By
Star Staff

For hardy theatergoers and others seeking a novel way to spend a winter afternoon, the Neo-Political Cowgirls will present their current production “Zima!” on Saturday at Montauk County Park.

An interactive winter journey, the performance combines mystery, poetry, theater, and exploration. Participants will be given clues while watching vignettes as they move through town and try to solve the given mystery. Groups will leave the park every 15 minutes starting at 1 p.m. for the hourlong walk, with the final group setting out at 2:15. Hot cocoa and music will be available at Third House.

Tickets are $8, $5 for those 12 and under, and are available at brownpapertickets.com.