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Opera by Bellini

An encore screening of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “Norma,” which opened the new season of the Met: Live in HD two weeks ago, will take place at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. The new production of the bel canto tragedy is conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by David McVicar. It stars Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which the soprano Renata Scotto has called “the Everest of opera.”

Oct 19, 2017
The Art Scene: 10.19.17

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will host an exhibition of work by Veronica Mahoney, Bo Parsons, and Charles Newman Antiques on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7. Guild Hall has announced that it is accepting applications to the 2018 Guild House Artist-in-Residence program through Nov. 10. Open to early career artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts, it is not a studio-based program but rather an opportunity for reflection and the development of supportive and collaborative relationships.

Oct 19, 2017
The York Music Company’s original 1908 cover for Jack Norworth’s song, set to music by Albert Von Tilzer. The Story Behind the Singing Suffragist at the Old Ball Game

How exactly did “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” come to be such a tradition, and is there anything behind the surface meaning?

Oct 19, 2017
Steve Washington Washington's Jazz, Blues, and Song Go to Church

The Art of Song concert series will present Steve Washington, a jazz and blues vocalist, on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Session House of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Oct 19, 2017
"Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo da Vinci will be sold in a November sale at Christie's. Old Masters to New Masters on the Block at Christie's

In an unusual move, Christie's auction house is including a recently rediscovered masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci along with Andy Warhol's "Sixty Last Suppers" in its Post-War and Contemporary Art sales this year.

Oct 17, 2017
Marianna Levine in Hawaii in her youth And the Writer’s Block Clears

All of Marianna Levine's worlds will come together Tuesday night at the reading of her play "A Night in Manoa" at Guild Hall.

Oct 12, 2017
On Sunday Bob Balaban and Annette Bening discussed her new movie, “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” which had its East Coast premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Balaban: What It's Like Not Being Bening

“A lot of movie stars are movie stars because they basically play themselves all the time,” Bob Balaban said to Annette Bening. "You become other people."

Oct 12, 2017
Roy Lichtenstein’s “Female Head” is one of several headlining artworks with Southampton ties up for sale at Sotheby’s auction house in November. East Enders Lead November Contemporary and Modern Sales

Sotheby’s November sales of modern and contemporary art will be enlivened and enriched by the inclusion of a significant collection of works on paper owned by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel, who have long had a house in Southampton.

Oct 12, 2017
Mozart and Hitchcock

The Met: Live in HD will bring its new season to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute).” James Levine, the Met’s music director emeritus, will conduct the full-length version of the magical fable, with Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, and Christian Van Horn among the cast members. Tickets are $22, $20 for museum members, and $15 for students.

Oct 12, 2017
Musical Variety

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a performance tomorrow by Mike Marshall, a mandolinist, and Darol Anger, who plays violin, and an evening of cabaret on Saturday with Judy Carmichael, a Grammy-nominated pianist, singer, and songwriter. Both shows will begin at 8 p.m.

Oct 12, 2017
Piano Four Hands

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will feature Arianna Korting and Robin Giesbrecht in a recital of works for piano four hands and solo piano tomorrow evening at 6. “Piano four hands” refers to a duet played side by side on a single piano, as opposed to works composed for two pianos.

Oct 12, 2017
South African Jazz

In partnership with the Jam Session, the Southampton Arts Center will present a concert by the South African All-Stars on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Oct 12, 2017
The Art Scene: 10.12.17

“Syd Solomon: Time and Tide,” a centenary exhibition of paintings by the influential Abstract Expressionist, will open tonight at 6 with a reception at the Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. It will run through Nov. 11. “Elemental Forces,” an exhibition of three-dimensional monochrome canvases and colorful oil paintings by Thomas Buhler, will open at Art Space 98 in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and continue through Nov. 12.

Oct 12, 2017
Southampton's Harvest Fest Means Party Time With Atlas

The weekend-long Southamptonfest, which will keep the village hopping with concerts, food trucks, sidewalk sales, and art exhibitions, will kick off tomorrow evening at 6:30 with a party at the Southampton Cultural Center

Oct 10, 2017
Paintings by Romul Nutiu, above, and, below, Tadeusz Kantor Abstract Expressionism Behind the Iron Curtain

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs is featuring artists from Eastern Europe who bucked the conventions and limitations imposed by their Communist lead­ers to create their own version of Abstract Expressionism.

Oct 5, 2017
“The Last Pig” by Allison Argo is one of the Compassion, Justice, and Animal Rights selections for this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival. Hamptons Film Fest Previews for the Adventurous

By the time the Hamptons International Film Festival is over on Monday, it will have screened 65 features and 50 short films. With so much to choose from and many films in competition, a small cross section of reviews and previews follows.

Oct 5, 2017
As a music producer and musician, Jack Douglas has worked with the Isley Brothers, John Lennon, Aerosmith, the Who, Patti Smith, the Yardbirds, and the New York Dolls, among others. Jack Douglas: Talent, Egos, and Rock’s Holy Grail

Over a plate of clams on the half shell at Gosman's Top Side, Jack Douglas shared epic tales of musical genius, and sometimes madness, working on albums by artists such as John Lennon and Aerosmith as a producer at the Record Plant Studios in New York.

Oct 5, 2017
Live Score for ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ Screening

Two screenings of the classic 1920 German horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” accompanied by a live improvised score by the Dave Harrington Group, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday at 7 p.m. and Monday at 2 p.m.

Oct 5, 2017
Rising Stars Piano Series Returns to Southampton

The Rising Stars piano series at the Southampton Cultural Center will open its fall season with a concert by Igor Lovchinsky on Saturday at 7 p.m. The recital will include works by Bach, Chopin, Wild, and Gershwin.

Oct 5, 2017
Fei Fei Dong in concert Salon Concert Series at the Parrish Art Museum Returns

The Salon Series of concerts by young, award-winning classical musicians will open its 10th iteration at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by the pianist Fei-Fei Dong.

Oct 5, 2017
The Art Scene: 10.05.17

A show of photographs by Nancy Breakstone, will open at Grain Surfboards in Amagansett on Saturday. A sale of paintings by Paton Miller and sculpture by the late Don Saco to benefit the Southampton Cultural Center, will be held on Sunday. Mari Rantanen and Bonnie Rychlak will show work at Ille Arts in Amagansett beginning Saturday.

Oct 5, 2017
Wolosoff Composition Premieres in New Mexico and Massachusetts

Bruce Wolosoff's musical composition “The Astronomer’s Key” will premiere at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday. It will then be presented on Oct. 15 in Medford, Mass., in the Distler Concert Hall at Tufts University.

Oct 5, 2017
Albee Auction Yields $12.5M

Last week’s sale of Edward Albee’s collection of art and decorative objects at Sotheby’s in Manhattan broke records for many of the artists involved. It was a rare “white glove sale,” meaning all 105 lots sold, and the auction raised $12.5 million to support the Edward F. Albee Foundation, which provides residencies for writers and visual artists in Montauk, where the playwright lived part time.

Oct 3, 2017
Katherine C.H.E. with Bakithi Kumalo A ‘Love Five’ Around the World

Katherine C.H.E., an Amagansett singer and songwriter has collaborated with Bakithi Kumalo, a South African Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer on a new song with an interactive component.

Sep 28, 2017
Ned Rifkin and Andrea Grover Andrea Grover Signs up for the Rifkin Questionnaire

Ned Rifkin interviewed Andrea Grover on Saturday at the Amagansett Library. He started off the exchange with a rapid-fire series of questions, presented here.

Sep 28, 2017
Jace Panebianco, a Southampton native who now lives in Hawaii, produced and directed “Paradigm Lost,” to be screened at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow. Catching Waves As Never Before

“You’ll see things you’ve never seen done in the water before,” Jace Panebianco said of his new action water sport film, “Paradigm Lost.”

Sep 28, 2017
For Hurricane Relief

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will host a benefit concert to raise money for hurricane victims around the country on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has helped organize and will M.C. the event, which will include music by Joe Lauro and the HooDoo Loungers, Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, and other groups to be announced.

Sep 28, 2017
Widget” and “Diminished Basic”, below, are two of the paintings by Royce Weatherly at the Watermill Center. Royce Weatherly's Painterly Derring-Do

Royce Weatherly is a fellow at the Watermill Center, one of the early recipients of a grant from Inga Maren Otto that established a fellowship for visual art.

Sep 28, 2017
The Art Scene: 09.28.17

Dan Welden, a master printer, painter, and educator, will conduct a one-hour demonstration in total silence next Thursday at 7 p.m., at the Golden Eagle barn on North Main Street in East Hampton. “Under the Surface,” an exhibition of photographs by Michele Dragonetti from her “Boat Hulls” series, will open tomorrow at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton and continue through Oct. 29. A reception will be held on Oct. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Sep 28, 2017
‘In Process’ at Watermill Center

Two Watermill Center artists-in-residence, Lilian Colosso and Lua Rivera, will present their work on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. as part of the center’s “In Process” series, which encourages engagement between the residents and the community.

Sep 28, 2017