The Church in Sag Harbor is teaming up with the Sag Harbor Cinema and Dia Bridgehampton to present two programs, starting Friday evening at 6 with a screening at the cinema of “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine,” a 2008 documentary directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach.
In 1982, Bourgeois (1911-2010) became the first woman to be given a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Since then her work has been exhibited, studied, and lectured on worldwide. As a screen presence, according to The Church, she is magnetic, mercurial, and emotionally raw, and her process is on full display in the film.
Writing in The New York Times, Nathan Lee said of the film, “A true (and sometimes terrifying) original, Ms. Bourgeois, now 96, is more than the sum of her parts. The uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine’ reveals much about this haunting and haunted master while leaving intact what Georges Braque once wrote was the only thing that mattered in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
Sold through the cinema, tickets are $20, $17 for senior citizens and people with disabilities, $15.50 for children 12 and under.
As for Dia Bridgehampton, its next exhibition, “Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1-32)” will open there with a reception on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
On Sunday afternoon at 3:30, Ms. Sillman, who is renowned for her painting-based multidisciplinary work and humor-infused abstraction, formal and conceptual questions, and rigorous physicality, will be joined at The Church by Eric Fischl, the venue’s co-founder and curator of its current exhibition, “The Ark,” for a conversation about their respective shows and the process of putting them together.
The program, which will be moderated by Jordan Carter, curator and co-department head of the Dia Art Foundation, is sold out, but a wait-list link can be found on The Church’s website.
