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Anne Seelbach brings her concern for the East End’s fragile marine ecology to her paintings. Anne Seelbach Sees Sea Life

To hear Anne Seelbach talk about the painting, stencils, and bas-relief collages she’s been doing recently — “to bring awareness of the effects of industrial and chemical pollution on the marine environment” — one might easily conclude that she has become political, but it is not the case. “I am first an artist, not an activist,” she said at her Sag Harbor studio, adding, however, that “it is also true that I hope to bring awareness to nature as I see it.”

Sep 30, 2014
“Untitled 10‚” from 2009, is one of the photographs featured in a show on view at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. Bartley’s Books in N.Y.C.

The minimal world of Mary Ellen Bartley has been in evidence in group and solo shows around the country and closer to home at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and the Parrish Art Museum, but her first New York City solo exhibition featuring her “Paperbacks” series at Yancey Richardson Gallery is something of an event.

Sep 30, 2014
Carmichael Sings

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will kick off Columbus Day weekend on Friday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m., when Judy Carmichael and her quartet will perform music from “I Love Being Here With You,” her first all-vocal CD. One of the world’s leading interpreters of stride piano, Ms. Carmichael will sing standards by Peggy Lee, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and others from the Great American Songbook. Tickets are $45 for side seating, $55 for center, while $75 includes admission to an after-party with the artist.

Sep 30, 2014
Classical Piano Trio

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open its Salon Series of classical piano concerts with the Lysander Piano Trio on Friday, Oct. 10, at 6 p.m. Due to the past popularity of the series, a second performance by the trio will take place on Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. Each concert will be followed by an opportunity to meet the artists.

Sep 30, 2014
For Young Performers

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold an audition for children 8 to 12 years old for its November production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Monday.

The audition for the Literature Live! production, directed by Joe Minutillo, will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds living within 50 miles of Sag Harbor have been encouraged to attend. Performance dates are Nov. 5 through

Sep 30, 2014
Robert Gober at the Modern

The Museum of Modern Art will present a survey of Robert Gober’s career, spanning four decades, beginning on Saturday.

The artist, who has had a house in Peconic since 1990, is known for his enigmatic sculptures of everyday objects with a twist, large installations, and drawings and prints. The work is often minimal but charged with narrative and allusions to religion, politics, and sexuality.

Sep 30, 2014
Joanna McCarthy’s “American Porch” photograph has been released in a limited-edition print available at the Scott Harrison Gallery in Bridgehampton. The Art Scene: 10.02.14

Crazy Monkey in Transit

    The Crazy Monkey Gallery, located in Amagansett for 14 years, is in the process of relocating to a larger space on Main Street in Bridgehampton.

New at Halsey Mckay

Sep 30, 2014
‘Eastern Standard’

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free reading of “Eastern Standard,” a play by Richard Greenberg, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Peter Connolly will direct the production, with a cast of Chloe Dirksen, Joanna Howard, Kate Mueth, Christian Scheider, Tristan Vaughan, and Mr. Connolly.

Sep 30, 2014
Christian McBride, accompanied by three fellow jazzmen, will headline the Sag Harbor American Music Festival with a concert tomorrow night at the Old Whalers Church. Music Here, There, and Everywhere in Sag

Christian McBride and Friends will headline the fourth annual Sag Harbor American Music Festival with a concert and fund-raiser at the Old Whalers Church Friday at 8 p.m.

Sep 26, 2014
“The Trials of Muhammad Ali” will be screened Saturday at 1 p.m. in Southampton. African-American Film Festival Is Call to ‘Raise Your Voice’

The Southampton African American Museum will present Raise Your Voice, a four-day festival of films, jazz, and spoken word, beginning next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a screening of “Fruitvale Station” at the Southampton Arts Center.

A program of spoken word and jazz, including performances by Charles Certain and his Certain Moves Jazz Band and the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist J. Ivy, will take place Friday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Sep 23, 2014
And Now, Fiction in Florence

Listen, you can sit in your dull Long Island home afraid of the next terrorist strike, or you can get out and engage the world. How about Florence?

Stony Brook Southampton’s M.F.A. program in creative writing and literature is back at it with another writers workshop in Italy, this one from Jan. 13 to 24. The focus in Florence will be on fiction with Susan Scarf Merrell. The author of a new novel, “Shirley,” about that master of the macabre Shirley Jackson, Ms. Merrell is also the fiction editor of The Southampton Review.

Sep 23, 2014
Bach & Forth Ensemble

The Bach & Forth Chamber Ensemble will launch its third season of performances on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. Members of the group are Thomas Bohlert (organ), Terry Keevil (oboe), Linda Di Martino Wetherill (flute), Rebecca Perea (cello), and Trudy Craney (soprano).

Sep 23, 2014
Inspiring ‘Design in the Hamptons’

Every year there are at least one or two books that seek to capitalize on the “Hamptons style” whether it be food, art, architecture, environs, lifestyle, or decor. They can often be expensive and hollow affairs, produced chiefly for last-minute purchases at BookHampton for a host or hostess gift.

Sep 23, 2014
Friends and colleagues celebrated the life and work of Brian Gaman, an artist who lived in Springs and New York City, at a memorial exhibition held Friday at Art Helix in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Janet Goleas, an East Hampton curator, was one of seven speakers. Mr. Gaman died on July 1 at the age of 65. The Art Scene: 09.25.14

Kabakovs on Film

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here,” Amei Wallach’s acclaimed documentary about the two celebrated Russian émigré artists who now live on the North Fork, tomorrow at 6 p.m. Ms. Wallach and Ms. Kabakov will answer questions after the screening.

Sep 23, 2014
World War II Spies

Guild Hall will present “The Red Orchestra,” a 2003 documentary about the resistance group that fought against the Third Reich within Germany from 1933 to 1942, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Harris Yulin, an actor with an extensive stage and screen resumé and a home in Bridgehampton, will introduce the film. A discussion will follow with Stefan Roloff, the film’s director and son of one of the group’s survivors.

Sep 23, 2014
Anita Hill Doc at Bay Street

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will present a screening of “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The subject of the 77-minute documentary, directed by Freida Lee Mock, is Anita Hill, an attorney and law professor who in 1991 was thrust onto the world stage when she testified before the Senate during its confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

Sep 16, 2014
Astrid Myers-Rosset with a portion of the wall, which will be fully revealed in the film “Barney’s Wall.” Barney Rosset’s Great Wall May Come Down

This past year, some of recent history’s more creative and flamboyant spirits have discovered and interacted with an eccentric and eclectic monument to the artistic pursuits of one of their own. That the artist was Barney Rosset, known primarily for his championing of literature and film, surprised most. But the artifact he created stunned all.

What they saw was a 12-by-22-foot wall-spanning mural, as ambitious as it is idiosyncratic, and a true emblem of the 20th century, even though it was conceived during the 21st.

Sep 16, 2014
“The Little Pier” from 1914 is one of many images William Glackens painted while summering in  Bellport from 1911 to 1916. How Glackens Found His Voice

It could not have been easy to be an American artist at the turn of the 20th century and the years to follow.

Playing catch-up with the revolutionary movements of European modern art must have been discouraging at the very least to the young artists who tried. Those who did may have been dismissed by unsympathetic audiences or shunned entirely by fellow artists for not pursuing a more nativist vision.

Sep 16, 2014
Tracey Jackson and Paul Williams take a serious yet lighthearted approach to adapting recovery principles for those who need help but are not traditional addicts. Life-Changing Affirmations By Tracey Jackson and Paul Williams

When Tracey Jackson and Paul Williams first met in the 1980s, the last thing either of them thought was that they might join up to address addictive behavior in a self-help recovery book.

For one thing, the popular musician and composer was high, very, very high. “I was at a party in Robert Mitchum’s house doing lines with Mr. Mitchum in his bedroom.” Ms. Jackson came in and complimented Mr. Williams on a recent film. His impaired retort was such that he said, “She went into the bedroom a fan of Paul Williams and came out a fan of Neil Diamond.”

Sep 16, 2014
Swank, Schumacher at Film Fest

Since its founding 22 years ago, the Hamptons International Film Festival has featured one-on-one conversations conducted by film journalists and magazine editors with actors, directors, and other industry notables. Joel Schumacher and Hilary Swank will be among this year’s guests for the “A Conversation With . . .” programs.

Mr. Schumacher will speak at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Oct. 11 at 11 a.m., when Jess Cagle, editorial director of People and Entertainment Weekly, will present him with the Golden Starfish Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award.

Sep 16, 2014
The Art Scene 09.18.14

Solow at Whaling Museum

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will open “City Square/Piazza,” an installation by Peter Solow, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through Oct. 13.

Mr. Solow, who lives in Sag Harbor, had his first solo show in New York City at the age of 29. In a review, John Russell, art critic of The New York Times, called him “someone to watch.”

Sep 16, 2014
Madoo Garden Party

Speaking of horticulture, the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack will close its garden season with a party on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The opportunity to enjoy a glass of wine and a stroll around the garden will be free for members, $40 for nonmembers. Guests can R.S.V.P. to [email protected].

 

Sep 9, 2014
Music From a Prodigy

Drew Petersen, an award-winning classical pianist, will perform a free concert at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The program will include works by Schumann and Brahms.

Sep 9, 2014
New From Wolosoff

The Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio will premiere a new work by Bruce Wolosoff, a Shelter Island composer, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Titled “The Loom,” the piece was inspired by the paintings of Eric Fischl, who collaborated closely on the project and created a new painting inspired by Mr. Wolosoff’s music. Trios by Beethoven and Smetana will also be on the program.

Sep 9, 2014
In “Pescador,” Blanquito (Andres Crespo) and Lorna (Maria Cecilia Sanchez) travel to Guayaquil, Ecuador, in an attempt to dispose of some ill-gotten cocaine. OLA! Latin American Winners

Three prizewinning Latin American films will be shown at the 11th OLA Film Festival this weekend at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. Founded by Isabel Sepulveda and presented by the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, the festival will kick off tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. with “Pescador,” an Ecuadorean film, which will be followed at 7 p.m. by a performance by Mambo Loco on the museum’s terrace.

Sep 9, 2014
On Flowers

Teri Dunn Chace, a writer, editor, and blogger whose work has appeared in major gardening and outdoor living publications, will deliver an illustrated lecture for the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, “Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers,” on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Ms. Chace’s book of the same name, published last year, includes lyrical and illuminating essays, observations, and horticultural lore from the author, and 343 photographs by Robert Llewellyn, a noted macro-photographer.

Sep 9, 2014
The saxophonist Pat DeRosa of Montauk, who will turn 93 in December, has performed across the country and with many musical legends of the 20th century. Pat DeRosa: Still Swingin’

Walk my way, and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello, that music I hear, I get misty, the moment you’re near.

One can almost hear the deeply romantic lyrics as the musician Pat DeRosa plays “Misty,” on a Selmer Mark VI saxophone, in his house in Montauk. Airy, breathy like the human voice, the melody of Errol Garner’s standard is awash in vibrato as it races down the wire and into a telephone receiver, to be heard several miles to the west.

Sep 9, 2014
Staged Reading

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of “Viva Los Bastarditos,” a new musical by Jake Oliver, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The production will be directed by Ethan McSweeny, a Tony Award nominee, and will star Blake DeLong and Alex Morf.

Set in a fictional land known as West Massachusetts, the play pits two villainous landlords against Los Bastarditos, three rock stars who unite to fight the would-be dictators and their army of rent collectors. The play draws upon and repurposes golden-age musicals, vaudeville, bedroom farce, and B-movie westerns.

 

Sep 9, 2014
“On the Horizon” was this week’s show at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, and the first fall opening brought out many locals who may have been doing their own version of hibernating this summer. A large crowd, top, came to check out the contemporary landscape paintings of many familiar South Fork artists, such as Alyssa Peek, left, who sold two works at the event. A Nick Groudas sculpture of welded steel, right, was another work on display. The Art Scene: 09.11.14

Emily Cheng at Ille

Ille Arts in Amagansett will present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Emily Cheng from Saturday through Sept. 30, with an opening reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Ms. Cheng draws upon the world’s cultural history for images and emblems, sometimes only fragments, which are transformed and recombined, in the artist’s words, “to service an entirely different purpose and context.”

Sep 9, 2014
“I Could Swear It Was You,” above, and “Whirlaway,” below, are two of the collages by Glenn Fischer on view at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill. ‘Tales of a Librarian’

If the precisely formed collage works of Glenn Fischer feel familiar, it is because they have visited the South Fork before, in group shows at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill and at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in Bridgehampton. The Bronx-based artist is now flying solo at Nightingale, captivating passers-by looking in from the street and viewers within the gallery.

Sep 9, 2014