Arts

Eric Firestone, whose eponymous gallery opened on Newtown Lane in East Hampton 10 years ago, has always followed his own path. While most gallery owners learn their trade by working for other dealers, Mr. Firestone opened his first gallery, in Tucson, Ariz., in 1994, when he was 21. Just last month he launched a ground-floor space on Great Jones Street in NoHo.

Joe Brainard's collages are on view downtown in East Hampton, while a pop-up show lands at Union Steak and Sushi in Southampton.

With less gathering and more cocooning this holiday season, don't forget the rich trove of virtual offerings by South Fork's arts organizations when it's time to cozy up to the couch.

The internationally known textile designer, collector, and author died at his home at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Tuesday.

At any year's end, it's a good time to take stock and reflect on what has happened since the last Jan. 1. This year might require something deeper and more elaborate.

Since March, the Willem de Kooning Foundation has provided $550,000 in grants and challenge grants to several East End organizations, with a focus on Springs, to address hunger, child care, and medical care. That is in addition to contributions of $2.15 million to the much broader arts community.

Rigor is a word that comes up again and again in the discussion of Dorothy Ruddick's life. The artist, who devised a way that fiber art could be used in combination with drawing and painting to create something else entirely, is on the precipice of a significant rediscovery.

"Julian Schnabel: Trees of Home (For Peter Beard),” features six new plate paintings dedicated to Beard, who was his neighbor in Montauk, and will open Saturday at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton has announced the addition of four new members to its board of trustees: Caroline Baumann, Derick T. George, Ayse Manyas Kenmore, and Fitzhugh Karol.

An outdoor sculpture tour at the Parrish Art Museum, the holiday invitational at Romany Kramoris, and new shows and a new New York City space for Harper's

Classical piano, a holiday cabaret streamed live from New York, and a zoom lecture about breaking into the arts field

It's fitting that South Etna gallery. has given over its two rooms to Karen Kilimnik, whose works are best experienced in the aggregate as part of a thematic experience. They build on themselves in a way that makes each part more meaningful and act as a mini survey as well.

James Croak's cast dirt sculptures in Southampton, Paul Davis's prints in Sag Harbor, and more

During the closing of cultural institutions last spring and after, Warren Neidich has emerged as a cultural force of his own. In May, he organized "Drive-By-Art," an outdoor public art exhibition where 62 South Fork artists exhibited their work on their properties, near roads, or on sidewalks.

Virtual concerts and variety shows, a "drive-by" Merry Madoo, and more

Kevin Teare's mid-to-late 1970s artworks are inflected with the Minimalist tendencies still prevalent during that period in New York. Yet they also signal the same shift other artists were making away from the movement's strictures.

While most biographies may be undertaken because of the writer's interest in the subject, Neal Gabler begins "with a question I want to explore. And then I find the subject who enables me to explore that question in a narrative way."

With the opening of the Sag Harbor Cinema Center delayed because of the pandemic, Jamie Hook, the executive director, is using the time to brainstorm ways to usher the theater from its art house past to a blockbuster future.

Phillips design stars on view in Southampton, Duck Creek pops up at Fireplace Project, the latest edition of the Thanksgiving Collective, Miami's art week shows up on these shores, and more

Most holiday-themed events are virtual this year, but the East Hampton Historical Society is offering two on-site events to celebrate the season.

The Southampton Arts Center’s “Raconteurs” storytelling series, hosted by Amy Kirwin, will return in virtual form next ‘Thursday at 7 p.m.

This year’s Hamptons Doc Fest will present a slate of 28 features and seven shorts virtually, over a 10-day period. Now in its 13th year, the festival has a diverse lineup covering politics, history, science, biography, social justice, the environment, and the arts.

A life spent living on both coasts has always inspired Mary Heilmann's artwork. This year, it has taken a more literal form and is on view in Southampton.

Emmanuel and Christina Di Donna have taken years of experience in the art world and channeled it into a jewel box of a showroom on Job's Lane in Southampton. Selavy by Di Donna aggregates both high art and design objects into livable spaces where everything is for sale.

A career survey with a seasonal focus at South Etna, members show applications, Jeremy Dennis's Dreamstarter grant, and more.

In Process at the Watermill Center, a series that fosters engagement between artist residents and members of the community, will resume on Saturday afternoon at 2, but, like so many cultural events these days, will do so virtually.

Audrey Flack's documentary is now available for streaming, Bay Street is holding an auction, and more

Viewers familiar with Miles Partington's work will notice a significant difference in his latest pieces. The Southampton native, who returned a few years ago after college and time out west, has recently shifted his practice to painting after years of working primarily in sculpture.

Saul Steinberg at Pace, a new pop up through the Drawing Room, a virtual Artists Alliance holiday show, and more

This weekend's OLA Film Festival, organized by the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, will include an in-person screening of "No," an award-winning 2012 Chilean film and a free virtual showing from Guild Hall of the Disney Studios cartoon "Inside Out."