Arts

Virtual screenings of documentaries, Tennessee Williams celebrated at Guild Hall, portraits during Covid time, and more

Whitehead wins second Pulitzer, Pollock-Krasner House's show for the season opens virtually, a workshop on opera, a virtual art fair booth, and more.

As both commercial and nonprofit art spaces pivot to an online setting, viewers still hunger for art out of the virtual sphere. A number of spaces and a special outdoor exhibition this weekend are making interactions with art objects possible again in real life.

Two at the Drawing Room, about Anne Porter at the Parrish, and virtual chamber performances from the Perlman program.

The summer arts scene will look very different this year, even if rules for gatherings are relaxed here. Expect to see outdoor play readings, limits or appointments required for access to gardens and art venues, and the return of the drive-in movie, with anticipated reopenings beginning in July.

New virtual offerings from Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and Our Fabulous Variety Show

Members Exhibition Online

Guild Hall’s 82nd Artist Members Exhibition is available online in two formats. Each of the 435 artworks can be seen individually along with its specifications, sale price, and purchasing options. Moving a cursor over each image yields a close-up view. In addition, two tracking shots float through the galleries to afford a glimpse of each work and the overall installation.  

Bay Street's Virtual Programs

Members Show goes online, Bay Street offers theater classes, Sag Cinema chooses some films to stream, and Halsey McKay in the flesh

Arts organizations including the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Bay Street Theater, and the Parrish Art Museum have modified their educational programs for families and children to offer them digitally and free of charge. 

Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright and poet who won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, once said that “art is solace, art is vision,” and while the context of that sentiment isn’t readily available, one could imagine it being said during a time of strife.

Folioeast’s “Winter Salon” in East Hampton is a vast undertaking in a small space, a miracle of placement and size management with an eye for hanging artwork so that it melds into a cohesive whole. Although it is hard to measure an exhibition of so many artists and their unique contributions, it is worth examining the highlights and the ensemble.

A weekend pop up/walk by show in Southampton and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants go to local organizations

"Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Flying Dutchman" have screenings at Guild Hall, new HamptonsFilm's screenings, women speaking about migration, and more

Xenophobia, at its rotten core, is ignorance. And ignorance, as Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty” has taught children since its 1877 publication, is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness.

The Southampton Cultural Center is offering three-course dinner-theater packages with “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” its current production from Boots on the Ground Theater. This critic’s advice: Skip the dessert course, because the play is a delightful and satisfying confection.

The Drawing Room gallery is filled with work by five of its regular stable of artists — Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Hector Leonardi, Vincent Longo, and Aya Miyatake — who inadvertently express through abstraction and their own processes what it feels and looks like outside.

Alice Hope at Tripoli, another exhibition pops up at Markel, and Howard Kanovitz has a show in Riverhead.

For the past two years, the Guild Hall Members Exhibition has allowed a peek behind the curtain just after the appraisal of the winners has finished. On Friday, this year’s jurist, Susan Thompson, an associate curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, offered insights into her methodology in a forthright and thoughtful way.

Guild Hall’s Members Exhibition will display the work of 400 local artists in a variety of mediums when it opens on Saturday.

Those who know Susan Harder from her activism regarding light pollution have a lot of surprises in store.

A dramatic reading in Sag Harbor, film classics have a new focus in Montauk, Inda Eaton at Bay Street, and more

This weekend, the international art world will converge on New York City to experience the annual collection of art fairs that make up what is informally called Armory Week and with them some East Hampton galleries.

“Sherlock’s Secret Life,” which combines mystery, murder, love, and comedy, will have its Long Island premiere at the Southampton Cultural Center Friday evening and continue through March 22.

The Hamptons Art Network’s Thaw Fest weekend is celebrating its third year by expanding to an entire month, beginning tomorrow and running through March 29.

Paintings by Lewis Zachs and photographs by Anne Sager at Ashawagh this weekend, a new show at White Room, and local artists on view at MOCA LI

The Art Dealers Association of America will have an early jump on next week’s Armory Show and satellite fairs when it opens The Art Show today at the Park Avenue Armory. This year, two galleries are featuring South Fork artists in solo shows at their booths.

The Met's "Agrippina" is the next live-streamed opera at Guild Hall, Soul comes to Sag, "Young Ahmed" is this week's HamptonsFilm showing, and more

The “Community Art Exhibition” at Grain Surfboards, hosted by the design group Stick + Stone, boasts an extended list of contributors, many from the surf and artist community here.

The death of a 14-year-old black girl in a June 1969 police-involved shooting in Omaha ignited three days of intense unrest there. Decades later, the biographic play “Vivian’s Music, 1969” focuses not on the death of Vivian Strong, but on her life.

The 1979 suicide of Jean Seberg has been an inspiration to Margia Kramer and others after her series of art projects based on Seberg's F.B.I. surveillance files.