Arts

Kevin McCann is channeling his friendship with Peter Beard in a documentary in progress, tentatively titled "Montauk: A Playground at the Very Limit of Creation." The film finds its center through the windmill Beard brought to his property in 1973.

One major addition to the Herrick Park summer schedule is a series of free outdoor movie screenings from Hamptons Film.

"Down and Dirty" is a two-artist show of sculptures made for the floor. The two artists, Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne, were not brought together randomly, but rather as a direct result of their friendship and similar aesthetic and material affinities.

Chris Kelly, an East Hampton native who recently returned to live here full time after many years in Brooklyn, will show abstract paintings created during the last year and a half with oil paint and pencil on canvas. 

Guild Hall's 90th summer season, launching this weekend, is a bounty of plays, readings, comedy, music, dance, conversations, and film screenings, all of which will take place outdoors.

An explosion of new exhibitions to greet the summer from museums, galleries. and pop-ups spanning the South Fork.

Salon series of concerts to be livestreamed on Friday and a film on plastic pollution in Southampton.

Guild Hall is celebrating the spirit of hope for a new season with a virtual reading of poems of rebirth and creativity by a star-studded roster of actors, and an outdoor concert of romantic boleros, jazz, funk, and Latin chill.

A new show at Madoo, East End Photographers at Ashawagh, Enoc Perez shows and tells, and more

Upcoming shows at the Talkhouse, music and comedy at the Clubhouse, and more

More than a year after it was first scheduled to open, A.R. Gurney’s play “Sylvia,” a comedy about the impact of an adopted stray dog on an empty-nest marriage, will open next Thursday at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

Fearlessness and self-confidence have informed Toby Molenaar's long career as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and writer whose work took her to India, Brazil, Afghanistan, the western Sahara, Lapland, Kenya, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan, among dozens of other far-flung locations. “I was involved in many situations where people said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ I thought, who says I can’t?"

Through her art making, Yto Barrada offers a unique lens in which to see the world. The Moroccan-French artist has recent work on view at Pace Gallery in East Hampton that is emblematic of the creative endeavors and concerns that have occupied her for some two decades.

The Art Barge and the D’Amico Studio and Archive will reopen this spring, after remaining closed for the 2020 season. The 2021 class and workshop schedule was issued on Friday, and registration is open. Classes include painting, orientation to creativity. Workshops include collage, pastel, and watercolor painting. There are also classes for children.

The music scene, return of classical piano at the Parrish, an intro to acting, and more

The Watermill Center’s spring Community Day, which provides the public an opportunity to experience the center’s grounds as a space to explore, unwind, and find inspiration, will take place in two parts on Saturday.

The antidote to the social-distancing doldrums may very well be social-dancing lessons, and for that, one needs to look no further than Friday night country line-dancing classes at the Southampton Cultural Center.

New shows at Tripoli, Borghi, Ashawagh, White Room, and Grenning, along with a new gallery in Montauk, a talk at Guild Hall, and more

A "42nd Street" musical revival now available for streaming through Guild Hall and lessons in auditioning on camera through Bay Street.

Allen O'Reilly spent more than four decades as an actor and education director before taking on the position of director of education and community outreach at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

New art shows all over the region, a salute to Vito Sisti, the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum reopens, Mary Abbott is the focus for the Pollock-Krasner House's first seasonal exhibition, and more

Alfredo Merat and more at Baron's Cove, Hot Lava and the Groove Kings at the Talkhouse, and upcoming broadcasts of the Jam Session on the radio

Bay Street Theater's plans to build a new theater complex and develop other properties near the Sag Harbor waterfront received mostly harsh critiques from village residents at a public forum on Saturday. 

On Friday, Bay Street Theater, in partnership with the Rock Project, will present “Reflections of ‘Who’s Next," a concert celebration of the 50th anniversary of the album.

Opera at the Beach
"Met Under Moonlight," presented by Guild Hall and HamptonsFilm, will resume on Saturday at 8 p.m. with a screening of the Metropolitan Opera's 2019 production of "Porgy and Bess," at Main Beach in East Hampton.

"Down and Dirty" features Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne and "High Noon" is a show of work by Elizabeth Hazan.

The Church welcomes new residents, Artists Alliance hangs their shingle at Ashawagh, bereavement at Pollock-Krasner, and more

For American artists whose papers don't naturally relate to a specific site, like a historic house or associated academic setting, the chief repository is the Archives of American Art. In January, it accepted the papers of Howard Kanovitz, an artist who lived and worked all over the South Fork during his career and died in 2009.

Telly and Inda at the Talkhouse, Alfredo Merat and Marcello Pimenta at Baron's Cove, and The Jam Session

“Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020,” an exhibition of work by 40 artists who have expanded the language of abstraction, often through important innovations, will open Sunday at the Parrish Art Museum.