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Parrish Spotlights Four Artists, Offers Film on Agnes Gund

Works by Ross Bleckner, Louise Nevelson, Donald Sultan, and Simone Leigh are featured in a new exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, which is also showing a documentary on Agnes Gund on Friday.

Oct 22, 2020
Rosario Varela: Paper and People Over Time

"Red, Gold, and You," which opened last weekend and continues through Monday, invites viewers to modify the red paper links that hang from trees in the Guild Hall garden. "Little by little, you can change the whole thing. . . . It will change and stay changed."

Oct 22, 2020
The Art Scene 10.22.20

Heilmann's latest canvases, photographic portraits of East End artists, Benglis in N.Y.C., group shows at MM Fine Art, and more

Oct 22, 2020
A Fresh Start to Fall at Guild Hall

The fall art season has officially arrived at Guild Hall, which is presenting a recorded talk with Shirin Neshat about her latest video and film projects on Sunday, an installation by Rosario Varela opening Friday, and a virtual talk with Renee Cox and Sanford Biggers on Tuesday.

Oct 15, 2020
Bits and Pieces 10.15.20

Outdoor screenings to be held at Southampton Arts Center this weekend, while an outdoor concert series in Bridgehampton has been canceled.

Oct 15, 2020
Bonac Blind Looks at What's Lost

As part of the Parrish Road Show, the artist Scott Bluedorn will launch Bonac Blind, a reimagined duck blind that both memorializes Bonac traditions of fishing, hunting, and farming and comments on the sad consequences of East Hampton's stratospheric cost of living.

Oct 15, 2020
Celebrating Frederick Wiseman at Sag Harbor Cinema

The Sag Harbor Cinema will launch "Wednesdays With Wiseman," a virtual cinema series of three films by Frederick Wiseman, on Oct. 21 with "Ballet" (1995), which focuses on the American Ballet Theatre. Each film will be preceded by a prerecorded conversation between Mr. Wiseman and another notable documentarian.

Oct 15, 2020
News for Foodies 10.15.20

Seasonally appropriate specials at Nick and Toni's and Fresno welcome fall.

Oct 15, 2020
Poe Reimagined for Halloween at Bay Street

Will Pomerantz, Bay Street Theater's associate artistic director, has reimagined three of Poe's thrillers into short plays with contemporary settings, under the title "Awake at Night."

Oct 15, 2020
The Art Scene 10.15.20

Local organizations have received grants from the Frankenthaler Foundation, plus new shows at Tripoli, Ashawagh, Philllips, Harper's Books, No. 53, and more.

Oct 15, 2020
A Sneak Peek at a Variety of Festival Films

A small sampling of Hamptons International Film Festival's offerings previewed and reviewed by some of The Star's writers for those looking for something different.

Oct 8, 2020
Bits and Pieces 10.08.20

Dahlias at LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton Historical Society's Ask the Curator, and a new virtual concert series from the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

Oct 8, 2020
The Art Scene 10.08.20

Pollock's mural at Guggenheim, Berry Campbell comes to Ashawagh, Elmgreen & Dragset at Pace, new solos at Halsey McKay, and more

Oct 8, 2020
The Consequences of Tragedy

"Wander Darkly" portrays the crisis of a woman who isn't clear about her state of being or that of those around her after a car crash. It's an existential journey the audience takes with her, never really sure what is happening until late in the game.

Oct 8, 2020
Truman and Tennessee, In Their Own Words

Lisa Immordino Vreeland planned to make a documentary about Truman Capote, then found out another film on the writer was in the works and about to be released. She decided to pivot and add another subject to her film.

Oct 8, 2020
Sip and Sing and Other Bay Street Fall Offerings

Sip and Sing with Kyle Barisich and two new online theater classes at Bay Street Theater

Oct 2, 2020
'When In Doubt, Do Something': The Harry Chapin Story

"Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something" will transport viewers of a certain age to a time that seems both comfortingly familiar and scarcely recognizable.

Oct 1, 2020
Bits and Pieces 10.01.20

Guild Hall's virtual theater features a play by a former artist in residence and film screenings outdoors at SAC

Oct 1, 2020
Lucien Smith on a Return to Rain in Southampton

Lucien Smith will discuss his "Southampton Suite," a follow up to his "Rain Paintings," which are on view at the Parrish Art Museum.

Oct 1, 2020
Salle Obscures but Encourages Meaning at Skarstedt Gallery

David Salle assembles images from multiple sources, layering them, and creating a larger meaning from the mixed messages and tropes. He continues this practice in the "Tree of Life" series on view at the Skarstedt gallery in East Hampton.

Oct 1, 2020
The Art Scene 10.01.20

New fall art exhibitions at Duck Creek, Harper's Books, MM Fine Arts, and more, an Artists Alliance show at Ashawagh, and legal advice for artists.

Oct 1, 2020
'Salt Water People' Speaking Bonac

“Salt Water People,” a play that focuses on the King family at two key points in their lives, in 1991 and at the time of Superstorm Sandy, is informed in part by Peter Matthiessen’s book “Men’s Lives.”

Sep 24, 2020
A Show of Curatorial Sleuthing

A pasteboard box shown to Richard Barons some 40 years ago, which he recalled this year, became the basis for the current exhibition on display at the Moran Studio in East Hampton.

Sep 24, 2020
Bits and Pieces 09.24.20

Documentaries on philanthropy and Oliver Sacks, a Southampton Cultural Center benefit featuring past performances, and more

Sep 24, 2020
Four From Frankenthaler at Phillips

The grand brick building where Phillips auction house has taken over was always a little awkward for retail, but it makes an exceptional gallery. The expansive interior walls offer a perfect setting for sweeping canvases such as the colossal Helen Frankenthaler "Off White Square."

Sep 24, 2020
How to Hold a Film Festival in a Pandemic

The Hamptons International Film Festival will go on this year, but won't be the experience of the past. Instead, films will be streamed or presented in drive-in screenings, conversations will take place in the virtual sphere, and some will be a combination of both.

Sep 24, 2020
The Art Scene 09.24.20

Artist grants awarded, a figurative show in Sag Harbor, 1950s in focus at Firestone, and more

Sep 24, 2020
Bits and Pieces 09.17.20

A new center devoted to the life and work of Peter Matthiessen, Hopefully Forgiven at the Parrish, and Sag Cinema has a new leader

Sep 17, 2020
Hamptons Film Fest Lineup Unveiled

The Hamptons International Film Festival will go on at its usual time this year minus some content and outside of theaters, in pared-down virtual and drive-in presentations.

Sep 17, 2020
Opinion: Holding on to Nature in 'Painting Place'

A group of landscape paintings from the mid to late 20th century, from a single collection, have been shown in two parts at the Drawing Room Gallery in East Hampton this summer and now into the fall.

Sep 17, 2020