Arts

Beginning on Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek will host a series of talks that highlight and describe the work of the Plain Sight Project, which has been documenting the history of East Hampton's slave-owning past for several years.

East End Photographers and Artists Alliance have new exhibitions along with new gallery shows at Halsey McKay, MM Fine Art, BCK Fine Arts, Chase Edwards, and more.

On a side street in Montauk just off the Plaza, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann have conjured something different from the galleries setting up in storefronts on the South Fork. Their space, South Etna, is a manifestation of place as much as it is a merger of the independent curatorial approaches they have honed over years of directing their own New York galleries.

When Mark Borghi saw an empty space in Sag Harbor next to Flying Point Surf Boutique was available this spring, he did not hesitate to lease it. It is now the Sag Harbor sister to his Bridgehampton space and the current home to "The Silence Perpetuates."

More drive-in films courtesy of Sag Cinema and a drive-in concert, live onsite programs at the Parrish, more classes at Bay Street, and much more

This weekend, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival normally would have begun its annual summer concert series, as it has for 36 years. But aside from the heat, this summer is anything but normal. Fans of the series, however, will be able to hear five hourlong performances in the comfort and safety of their home or garden beginning Sunday.

Hamptons Film Drive-In at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton will screen its last week of movies next week: a remake of "The Parent Trap," the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," and a brand-new SummerDoc, "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."

Southampton's Rick Friedman is back with the Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, which will launch at noon Thursday on its website and continue through Sunday. It will return again over Labor Day weekend.

New shows at Pace, Drawing Room, and Eastville, a book signing in Sag and a new gallery for art and design.

Guided by the conviction that artists are the antennae of society, Mr. Kratz, a painter and president of the New York Academy of Art, and Ms. Roach, who is the director of the Flag Art Foundation in New York City, began to solicit artists' thoughts on living and working during quarantine and what life would be like afterward.

An article described the discovery of a "forgotten trove" of artworks with values estimated at $100,000 to $1 million at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, the sale of which was destined to "bring them lifesaving cash" and help save them from millions of dollars of debt. It sounded like a fairy tale, and, according to the hospital, it is.

More films al fresco in Bridge and South, Palm Springs comes to Zoom via the Southampton Arts Center's design tour, and a virtual jazz concert

The East Hampton Historical Society's annual Antiques and Design Show has adapted itself and its preview cocktail party for the season of the virtual benefit.

Leiber reopens, Clothesline returns, LongHouse has an auction, new Montauk galleries, and new shows all over

The placement of Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze" at LongHouse Reserve earlier this month involved flatbeds, a crane, brute force, and extreme care.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will host its own "American Idol"-style contest beginning Sunday and a new drive-in series in Southampton (with tailgating) will help Feed the Need.

"When the museum temporarily closed the building, we realized, like everyone else, that the digital platform was our smoke signal, our flare, our communication. We started to look at our Instagram and we wondered how can we make it a little meatier."

"In a sea of knotted sweaters and blue-chip galleries, we're here," Hadley Vogel said of East Hampton Shed. "There's so many pop-ups with galleries from the city, but a truly alternative space doesn't really exist out here anymore."

Tomashi Jackson's Parrish Art Museum project, "The Land Claim," focuses on historical land rights and appropriation in the United States, and, specifically, historic and contemporary issues that have affected indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on the East End. She will be part of a streamed discussion on Friday.

Bryan Hunt opens at Duck Creek, visitors come back to Pollock-Krasner, Rental Gallery's "Friend," and more

If there is a small silver lining during the widespread shift to online cultural programming necessitated by Covid-19, it is, as Andrea Grover, Guild Hall’s executive director, says, “Seating is limitless in the virtual realm.” Which is a good thing, because Sunday’s staged reading of “Same Time, Next Year” with Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin would surely be a sellout if it were a live production.

Bay Street's virtual gala will feature a telethon and its usual performances, plus more classes, and some new Hamptons DocFest favorites.

"Stony Hill" pairs the guitarist G.E. Smith with LeRoy Bell, a singer-songwriter and musician whose works have been recorded by artists including Elton John, the Spinners, the O'Jays, the Temptations, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Videos accompanying the first two songs to be issued, the politically charged "America" and the traditional "Black Is the Color," were released on Friday.

"Return to Summer Reading," a show of new Mary Ellen Bartley photographs at the Drawing Room gallery in East Hampton, reveals an artist who is a master of reinvention derived from ever so slightly shifting her focus on a single subject.

Just when Michael Butler was experiencing what it was like to feed off of other artists' creative energies, the shutdown came.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will screen "Point Break," "Selena," and "Moonrise Kingdom" on three nights in July at Havens Beach. Meanwhile, the cinema continues its online series, adding new titles this week.

Borghi's new gallery, Jackson speaks, Ai Weiwei's Chinese Zodiac at LongHouse, The Shed on Wheels, and much more

The Hamptons Arts Network, a group of 19 nonprofit arts organizations on the South Fork that banded together a few years ago, has been a lifeline for its members during the Covid-19 crisis. Now, the group is directing some of its resources outward to help the creative community around them.

Hamptons Film has revealed it will offer a series of 12 drive-in screenings at the Hayground School beginning with "The Wizard of Oz" on July 6. In addition, it is offering rentals of its screening equipment and staffing for private use at several levels -- from backyard to community center and country club.

Openings of Guild Hall, Madoo, and Southampton Arts Center, Joe Zucker speaks, a benefit concert, and more