Arts

A regularly updated calendar listing of daily virtual art and cultural events hosted by local organizations. These listings are in addition to the organizations' standing and archived activities and events not scheduled for a specific time. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free.

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.

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.

A weekend pop up/walk by show in Southampton and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants go to local organizations

For the past two years, the Guild Hall Members Exhibition has allowed a peek behind the curtain just after the appraisal of the winners has finished. On Friday, this year’s jurist, Susan Thompson, an associate curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, offered insights into her methodology in a forthright and thoughtful way.

Xenophobia, at its rotten core, is ignorance. And ignorance, as Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty” has taught children since its 1877 publication, is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness.

The Southampton Cultural Center is offering three-course dinner-theater packages with “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” its current production from Boots on the Ground Theater. This critic’s advice: Skip the dessert course, because the play is a delightful and satisfying confection.

The Drawing Room gallery is filled with work by five of its regular stable of artists — Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Hector Leonardi, Vincent Longo, and Aya Miyatake — who inadvertently express through abstraction and their own processes what it feels and looks like outside.

"Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Flying Dutchman" have screenings at Guild Hall, new HamptonsFilm's screenings, women speaking about migration, and more

Alice Hope at Tripoli, another exhibition pops up at Markel, and Howard Kanovitz has a show in Riverhead.