Two at Drawing Room
The Drawing Room Gallery in East Hampton is featuring concurrent online exhibitions of works by Sue Heatley and Hector Leonardi. “Southern Exposure,” Ms. Heatley’s recent series of mixed-media works, explores impressions of place in an abstract language. Mr. Leonardi’s paintings reveal the central role of color theory in his work through a combination of direct brushwork and collage.
While the gallery’s 55 Main Street location is closed, its storefront window will include changing selections of works. In addition, online catalogs of the exhibitions, including prices, can be seen on the gallery’s website. Inquiries about individual artworks will be welcomed, and the gallery can stage specific works in its window on request.
About Anne Porter
The Parrish Art Museum’s Friday Nights Live! series will show “Anne Porter: A Poet Among Us,” a live-stream illustrated talk by Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator, tomorrow at 5 p.m. The poet, who was married to the painter Fairfield Porter, will be revealed through her own writings, paintings by her husband and other artists in their circle, excerpts from a 1953 film by Rudy Burckhardt, and selections from a never-before-seen 2011 interview with Ms. Longwell.
Anne Porter wrote poetry throughout her life, but it wasn’t until after her husband’s death in 1975 that she fully dedicated herself to her work. Her first volume was published in 1989, and her collection “An Altogether Different Language: Poems 1934-1994,” published in 1994, when she was 83, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Bastienne Schmidt, a multimedia artist represented in the Parrish’s permanent collection and featured in the museum’s recent “Artists Choose Artists” exhibition, will lead a live program from her Bridgehampton studio that will explore art as a form of visual journaling. It will take place on Wednesday morning from 11 to 11:45. Preregistration will close on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Links to Ms. Longwell’s talk and Ms. Schmidt’s workshop are on the museum’s website.
Virtual Chamber Performances
The Perlman Music Program, which has instructed young classical musicians and staged their concerts since 1994, has decided to conduct this year’s Chamber Music Workshop virtually instead of at its Shelter Island campus from May 23 through June 14. The program is still deciding what shape the rest of its summer will take.
In the meantime, links on the Perlman website connect to a dozen performances on YouTube, including a one-hour program of chamber music intercut with comments by the performers, and excerpts from other performances.
