Arts

More than one year and an aborted midsummer restart later, live music will return to the Stephen Talkhouse Friday with a solo performance by Nancy Atlas at 8 p.m. The venue will host a trivia contest Thursdays beginning this week, and Josh Brussell will play solo sets this Saturday night at 7 and 9.

In-person screenings of "Black Art: In the Absence of Light" at the Parrish Art Museum, a show at Mark Borghi Gallery, John Torreano at Keyes Gallery, and more

The theater provided a first glimpse of architectural renderings of the new complex it will build in Sag Harbor, and announced that Friends of Bay Street is seeking to purchase and tear down 2 Main Street, an adjacent building that is home to the K-Pasa restaurant and the Espresso Da Asporto and the Yummylicious! food shops. 

Dava Sobel will share a virtual Guild Hall stage with actors for readings of selected poems that pay tribute to space and everything that inhabits it in partnership with the Hamptons Observatory.

A church concert of Baroque music on original string instruments and a vocal workshop at Bay Street

Instead of indoor screenings or simulcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions, Guild Hall and HamptonsFilm will show recordings of previous performances at Main Beach this spring.

A disagreement about safety has led to a standoff between the Bay Street Theater, which is seeking to hold its summer season in a tent in Steinbeck Park, and the Sag Harbor Village Board, which has thus far nixed the plan, citing concerns about noise, crowding, traffic flow, and other quality-of-life issues.

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's evergreen popularity is on evidence this spring as an important show of Pollock's murals continues at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Krasner's collages are on view at Kasmin Gallery.

The Parrish screens a film on Gerhard Richter, Jeremy Dennis discusses "On This Site," and more

David Kennedy Cutler returns to Halsey McKay, the Parrish continues its outdoor tours, and Pace offers a Lichtenstein show in Palm Beach

Directed by Bob Balaban, “Squeaky” stars Harris Yulin in the title role. When he brought the play to Guild Hall, the play's writer Josh Cohen said, “I think Harris Yulin is made to order. I think he IS my father.”

On Monday, the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, under the direction of Jose Sebastian, a summer resident of East Hampton, will launch a series of dances on film choreographed and performed by dancers in quarantine "bubbles."

A screening of the play "War Horse," history told through opera, a talk on Japanese costume, and more

Valerie diLorenzo has starred in theater, cabaret, and musical revues, but “there’s nothing like being in a show,” she said. “Especially in summer stock or regional theater or doing a tour, when you’re immersed in that world, in that character’s life, and the people you’re with are your family."

The tale of the downfall of the Knoedler Gallery after dealing Abstract Expressionist paintings made in Queens by a convincing forger for more than a decade is the subject of a Netflix documentary called "Made You Look," directed by Barry Avrich, and a scripted series now in development.

Concerts, film screenings, lectures, and more are all part of the cultural offerings this week.

Master Gardeners Spring Gardening School will be held virtually this year for the first time in its 30-year history. The day-long program from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Doug Tallamy.

An online program designed to highlight the power of poetry to influence music, dance, and video art will launch the spring season of Reflections next Thursday.

The spring auction season is offering some new opportunities to see art that would not normally be in the mix out here. This week, it is photographs in the Phillips auction house's spring sale on view in its Southampton galleries.

Frank Wimberley goes solo in Chelsea and another group artist talk at the Southampton Arts Center

Hamptons Doc Fest is screening "Acasa, My Home," Elizabeth Lo will discuss her film "Stray" with Sag Harbor Cinema, and a gardening talk at H.A.H.

A venerable groundbreaking gallery closes in New York and new shows everywhere

"Youth v Gov" follows a lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 young people ages 13 to 24 that contends the government's actions that cause climate change violated their constitutional rights and failed to protect public trust resources.

This year's Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition reads as a reflection of the year that has passed, sometimes quite literally but also subtly, as familiar artists tried new things or turned inward in a time of distance and quiet. Antwaun Sargent, this year's awards juror, parsed through some 420 entrants hung on almost every available wall space in and around the three main museum galleries on Friday.

The acclaimed American sculptor Mel Kendrick has spent most of the last 40 years taking things apart and putting them back together.

Sag Cinema's filmmaker talks continue, HIFF opens submissions process, a talk about women's migration, and workshops at Watermill Center

Hosted and produced by Judy D'Mello and Jeremy Warshaw and focused on loneliness, the podcast "Is Anybody Out There?" is of particular use during this time of human distancing.

In one of the East End art world's most consistent and democratic traditions, Guild Hall will hold its 83rd Artist Members Exhibition beginning Saturday.

Art, race, and politics, and an award-winning novel about restitution and faith are the subjects of two upcoming presentations from Guild Hall.

Parrish Pairings bring a new twist and influential voices to the discussion table, and more.