Arts

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

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

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.

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.

Salle opens at Skarstedt, three artists in a new Rental Gallery show, and more in this week's art news

Joe Bradley first came to the Elaine de Kooning House as a resident in 2012 and returned to use it as a studio this year after his family relocated to the South Fork in March.

The moment Anthony Genovesi received the news that he had been cast in "Sing Street," he knew his "life was changing in a big way."

A group of visual and performing artists and writers who support the Democratic candidate for Congress Nancy Goroff have banded together from across the First District to form Artists for Nancy. They will host a panel discussion with Ms. Goroff on Wednesday, which is open to all.

Virtual stand up comedy through the Southampton Cultural Center and new courses from Bay Street Theater

A looped animation by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov will be projected on the south facade of the Parrish Art Museum on Saturday evening.

Krasner in Bilbao, Leiber online and in the garden, an art sale to benefit Ross, new shows at MM Fine Arts, White Room, and Grenning

Beginning Wednesday, Tracy Thorne, a playwright and actress, will give 16 live performances on Zoom from her East Hampton home of her new play, “Jack Was Kind."

Michael Weiskopf, a longtime East Hampton resident and frontman for the Dylan cover band the Complete Unknowns, has donated a piano to LTV, allowing the public access station to continue its evolution.

Anderson and McBride Livestream
For those unable to score $500 tickets for Laurie Anderson and Christian McBride’s sold-out concert in Guild Hall’s garden on Saturday evening, there is a consolation prize: The performance will stream live at 8 p.m.

Ms. Anderson, an award-winning visual artist and innovative musician, and Mr. McBride, a six-time Grammy-winning bassist and composer, will be joined by Rubin Kodheli on cello.

Horticulture enthusiasts will have two opportunities next weekend to visit private gardens in Southampton and on Shelter Island, thanks to benefit tours for the Southampton History Museum and the Parrish Art Museum.

“Driven to Abstraction,” Daria Price’s documentary about the $80 million forgery scandal that stunned the art world and led to the collapse of Knoedler & Co., is this week's Hamptons Doc Fest featured film.

Talking is a good way to describe Mr. Birbiglia’s comedy. “The New One,” his Broadway show that opened at the end of 2018 and inspired the book, is right at the corner of stand-up comedy, one-man performance, and storytelling.

New exhibitions at Duck Creek, Drawing Room, Pace, South Etna, Halsey McKay, Harper's Books, and more, plus the annual Springs Improvement Society members show at Ashawagh Hall and a "Cloud Garden" at Guild Hall.

Hamptons Film will hold its 28th Hamptons International Film Festival this year with mix of streamed and live content through drive-in presentations from Oct. 8 through Oct. 14. The films will include a documentary about Harry Chapin, the singer-songwriter from Huntington and founder of Long Island's first food bank.

Southampton Arts Center screens "Guardians of the Galaxy" outdoors and a documentary on Hal Buckner inside and Lynn Blue Band at the Parrish

Dia Bridgehampton's beguiling and intriguing exhibition of 11 four-channel screen prints on linen by Jill Magid form an installation that is a meditation on authorship, legal limitations and their interference with the creative urge, and the power of the individual to circumvent or override them.

“One of the things moving me forward right now, and it has been for a while, is symbiosis,” Darlene Charneco said during a conversation at the William Steeple Davis House in Orient, where she is the resident artist. “I’m learning more about the interspecies mutualisms that have evolved through time and how we are a product of that.”

"Stand by Me" is the latest drive-in offering by the Sag Harbor Cinema at Havens Beach with two new virtual films for screening at home.

A benefit art sale for the Southampton Arts Center, a new gallery in Southampton, and new shows at Nightingale, Colm Rowan, Grain Surfboard, and BCK

"I know it's weird to talk about a muse, but I'm absolutely convinced the muse is real," Anthony Brandt said on a recent summer afternoon, sitting on his backyard deck in Sag Harbor.

Multiple scenes from Beyoncé's "Black Is King," which was released on July 31, were filmed at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island and in Guild Hall's galleries in East Hampton.

Portraits music series returns next week, outdoor screenings in Southampton, and a new virtual reading at Guild Hall.

Lindsay Morris’s most recent project, “A Small Taste of Freedom,” which will open Friday at Guild Hall, focuses on the here and now and close to home.

New drive by and walk by outdoor sculpture, SHechet's indoor sculpture at Pace, three solos at MM Fine Art, a new show at Harper's Books, Phillips opens in Southamption, Tripoli Gallery's return, and more

In person and virtual music offerings and a drag brunch are on offer this week.