Arts

Valerie diLorenzo has starred in theater, cabaret, and musical revues, but “there’s nothing like being in a show,” she said. “Especially in summer stock or regional theater or doing a tour, when you’re immersed in that world, in that character’s life, and the people you’re with are your family."

The tale of the downfall of the Knoedler Gallery after dealing Abstract Expressionist paintings made in Queens by a convincing forger for more than a decade is the subject of a Netflix documentary called "Made You Look," directed by Barry Avrich, and a scripted series now in development.

Concerts, film screenings, lectures, and more are all part of the cultural offerings this week.

Master Gardeners Spring Gardening School will be held virtually this year for the first time in its 30-year history. The day-long program from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Doug Tallamy.

An online program designed to highlight the power of poetry to influence music, dance, and video art will launch the spring season of Reflections next Thursday.

The spring auction season is offering some new opportunities to see art that would not normally be in the mix out here. This week, it is photographs in the Phillips auction house's spring sale on view in its Southampton galleries.

Frank Wimberley goes solo in Chelsea and another group artist talk at the Southampton Arts Center

Hamptons Doc Fest is screening "Acasa, My Home," Elizabeth Lo will discuss her film "Stray" with Sag Harbor Cinema, and a gardening talk at H.A.H.

A venerable groundbreaking gallery closes in New York and new shows everywhere

"Youth v Gov" follows a lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 young people ages 13 to 24 that contends the government's actions that cause climate change violated their constitutional rights and failed to protect public trust resources.

This year's Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition reads as a reflection of the year that has passed, sometimes quite literally but also subtly, as familiar artists tried new things or turned inward in a time of distance and quiet. Antwaun Sargent, this year's awards juror, parsed through some 420 entrants hung on almost every available wall space in and around the three main museum galleries on Friday.

The acclaimed American sculptor Mel Kendrick has spent most of the last 40 years taking things apart and putting them back together.

Sag Cinema's filmmaker talks continue, HIFF opens submissions process, a talk about women's migration, and workshops at Watermill Center

Hosted and produced by Judy D'Mello and Jeremy Warshaw and focused on loneliness, the podcast "Is Anybody Out There?" is of particular use during this time of human distancing.

In one of the East End art world's most consistent and democratic traditions, Guild Hall will hold its 83rd Artist Members Exhibition beginning Saturday.

Art, race, and politics, and an award-winning novel about restitution and faith are the subjects of two upcoming presentations from Guild Hall.

Parrish Pairings bring a new twist and influential voices to the discussion table, and more.

Jackson Gay will share her new project, “Endless Loop of Gratitude,” during a virtual presentation by Guild Hall on Friday. Guild Hall has also opened its application process for community artists in residence, strictly for artists who live in the 119 ZIP codes.

Outlaw country on film, the intricacies of East meeting West in textile design, and more

After spending more than 25 years offering art lovers a chance to purchase a piece of East End history, Terry Wallace, the owner of the Wallace Gallery of American Art in East Hampton, will close up shop on Monday.

Called "No Fillings for a Copper Plate," Ryan Kitson's installation at the Arts Center at Duck Creek consists of several copper plates riddled with multiple holes made by bullets entering and exiting through either side.

South Fork dealers have opened new shows in New York City, exhibitions open at Skarstedt here and in the city, new virtual offerings, and more.

A new remote In Process at Watermill Center, the Plain Sight Project comes to the Parrish, staff changes at Guild Hall, and a talk about birds in honor of Peter Matthiessen.

Reggie D. White turned to lesser-known speeches and interviews and writings of 20 people ranging from James Baldwin to Stokely Carmichael to Angela Davis as inspiration for "In Case You Hadn't Heard: A Conversation Between America's Past and Its Promise." It will have its world premiere via Bay Street and Zoom on Monday.

Clintel Steed is one of more than 2,000 artists who have pushed back on the extended delay of the museum show "Philip Guston Now." His new series "Behind the Hood," on view at the Mark Borghi gallery in Sag Harbor, presents his own take on the subject matter.

Three photographers at Drawing Room, copper plates in the woods, Ross Bleckner at Van de Weghe, and more

At The Church in Sag Harbor, where Eric Fischl and April Gornik have transformed an old church into a multidisciplinary arts space with residencies, two projects have been progressing this month.

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

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.     

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.