Arts

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

With New Yorkers hunkered down in their second homes on the South Fork since March and in no hurry to return, owners of prominent New York galleries -- Pace, Skarstedt, and Van de Weghe Fine Art, among them -- have followed their customers, moving east for an extended seasion or even multiple years.

LongHouse opens for the seasons, many gallery openings, a McNally film, and more

"Art Apart," a roadside art exhibition open to all East Hampton residents, will populate the town's byways with a variety of artworks.

Tomashi Jackson speaks at the Parrish, a film trilogy streams on the East Hampton Library's Facebook page, “Shirley” will be streamed by the Sag Harbor Cinema, and more.

Josh Gladstone, the artistic director of Guild Hall’s theater programs, summed up the paradox of planning events this summer: “It’s an exercise in Zen Buddhism. How do you create performing arts programming in a theater that doesn’t exist?”

Area musicians hope to raise money for East End hunger, a discussion of a new book on Krasner, and more

“How often do we put masks on to deal with certain things in our life, and how often do we take them off and feel vulnerable?” said Charity Joy Robinson, who taught the dance last Thursday on the lawn at the North Sea Community House for a small, socially-distanced group of students.

Duck Creek's programs and exhibitions directly relate to the present Springs artist community and its history as an art colony going back decades. Given this precedent, the site has become inextricably linked to its programs. That is a challenge in a socially distanced time

New online classes, an easement closes for the Sag Harbor Cinema, the Hampton Theatre Company announces the postponement of some of its plays, and more

Move over, “The Affair.” In the stranger than fiction department, a Sag Harbor filmmaker is shopping a screenplay about a Montauk mechanic, his years-long dispute with the town, and the romance he shared with his late partner.

Drive-In style movie screenings kick off this weekend with "Raiders," a celebration of Toni Morrison, Saul Steinberg, and more