Members Exhibition Online
Guild Hall’s 82nd Artist Members Exhibition is available online in two formats. Each of the 435 artworks can be seen individually along with its specifications, sale price, and purchasing options. Moving a cursor over each image yields a close-up view. In addition, two tracking shots float through the galleries to afford a glimpse of each work and the overall installation.
Bay Street's Virtual Programs
Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is offering Sip and Sing With Valerie diLorenzo, a free series of sing-along performances, on Fridays at 5 p.m. through April via the Zoom app. Registration through the Bay Street website is required. The theater is launching three virtual classes this month. In addition to its previously announced TheaterCamp, for kids ages 7 to 13 and now underway, Lights, Camera, Action! will acquaint teenagers and adults with on-camera acting training starting on Saturday.
Wade Dooley, an actor and playwright, will lead a weekly workshop focused on shaping true stories into appealing narrative forms beginning on Wednesday. Registration and further information are on the theater’s website.
Bay Street has made available a code good for a free month of the streaming service Broadway HD. The code, BSTFM, can be entered when signing up on the service’s website.
New at Halsey McKay
Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton has opened two solo exhibitions for passers-by with the hope that it will be able to reopen its space in the coming weeks. “Never Paint a Ladder” features paintings of rural architectural spaces by Henry Gavin, and “All the Distant Places” has abstract works created by Miranda Fengyuan Zhang in wool on wood panels.
Sag Cinema Marks a Virtual Opening
The Sag Harbor Cinema, which had been scheduled to open last week, is streaming a selection of first-run films and newly restored classics by way of a three-day pass on its website through Sunday. Titles include “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,” a 1976 Brazilian comedy starring Sonia Braga. A conversation with Bruno Barreto, the film’s director, can be accessed on the theater’s Facebook page on Sunday at 5 p.m. Other selections are “The Times of Bill Cunningham,” a documentary about the late New York Times photographer, and “The Wild Goose Lake,” a neo-noir film from China.
Fairfield Porter Lecture and Parrish Tour
Alicia Longwell, the chief curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will discuss “Fairfield Porter and Friends — in Their Own Words” via live stream on the museum’s website Friday at 5 p.m. The talk focuses on the circle of artists and writers Porter invited to his house on South Main Street in Southampton from his family’s arrival in 1949 until his death in 1975.
Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m., Terrie Sultan, the museum’s director, will lead a live virtual tour through the museum’s permanent collection galleries. Registration for both programs is available on the Parrish website.
