Arts

Kelly Taxter, a curator of contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, has been named the director of the Parrish Art Museum, the museum announced last week.

The working process of Claire Watson, from her early 1990s transformations of ordinary tobacco pipes into extraordinary objects to her recent constructions assembled from leather pattern parts, thread, and wood veneer, can be seen as a form of alchemy, one that often emerges from her personal history and her research.     

A discussion of the future of museums and their relevancy and honors for Bay Street Theater

Hamptons Film honors Black History Month with a talk from its October festival on "With Drawn Arms." Other new releases are available to stream through its website.

Tomashi Jackson speaks at the Parrish with Minerva Perez, new work by Monica Banks in a Southampton Village storefront, and a Lee Krasner talk via Phillips auction house.

In a tribute to Black History Month, the Sag Harbor Cinema is launching a new series of Cinema Minutes devoted to pioneering Black filmmakers and stars.

An introduction to the Bel Canto Boot Camp, prepared specially for Guild Hall, will take place online Thursday at 6 p.m. and be followed, on four consecutive Sundays starting this week, by sessions organized around specific themes.     

Michi Itami has worked in a variety of mediums -- printmaking, ceramics, painting, digital photo collages -- but as an artist and teacher, her attitude is consistent: “If you just listen to what they say you have to do, you don’t get anywhere. If you step outside of the box, if you just think creatively, there’s so much you can do.”     

It's not too late to sign up for Bay Street Theater's wine tasting benefit in partnership with Wolffer Estate Vineyard on Feb. 24. The deadline has been extended to Wednesday.

At times, one can enter Keyes Art in Sag Harbor and see a pared-down exhibition, similar to any other buttoned-up gallery in the region. In all the best ways, this is not one of those times.

The East Hampton Historical Society’s annual winter lecture series, which will take place virtually this year, will launch Friday evening at 7 with “I Remember When: John Howard Payne’s Memories of Old East Hampton and His Life, 1791-1852.”

A new show at Firestone in N.Y.C. and a talk on James Schuyler at the Parrish Art Museum