Arts

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.