Arts

The fourth annual Sag Harbor Cultural Heritage Festival will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at locations throughout the village. Sponsored by the 12 members of the Sag Harbor Cultural District, this year’s event, Sag Harbor: The Stories That Shape Us, will highlight the community’s literature, art, music, theater, and history.

Our Fabulous Variety Show’s pleasing revival of “Art,” playing through Sunday at Guild Hall, quite literally offers us a small play about big issues.

An afternoon salon of piano music in Montauk and a film about some of the women who took the House of Representatives in last year's election

The Hamptons Doc Fest is celebrating spring with documentaries about farming, jazz, and journalists, each of which will be followed by a discussion.

The Halsey McKay Gallery’s exhibitions in East Hampton this month offer two renditions of America and American themes that on the surface appear to diverge, but stand as bookends to the disquieting reality of daily experience.

Mark Rothko has been in the news lately, with significant sales of his artwork coming up next month and the release last month of a short film about his enduring tribute to a fellow artist.

One of the most reliable harbingers of spring and the high season on the South Fork is the opening of the 16-acre LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton every April in the heart of daffodil and tulip season.

“There is a calla lily thing going on in my life,” said the artist Priscilla Heine, about her first painting of that flower, whose name derives from the Greek word for beautiful.

Photographers East at Ashawagh, new group at Tulla Booth, "Witness" in Sag Harbor, and much more

A fairy tale pop-rock musical, two history-based plays, and a drama set in a near future beset by climate change will be presented next week in Title Wave, Bay Street Theater’s new works festival.

There is seemingly no end to the number of artists associated with the East End, past and present. Annual exhibitions that attempt to bring more of them to our attention should be commended for giving us a fuller picture of the creativity that has existed in our midst for more than a century.

Pachanga at Bay Street, "Art" and 'Idol' from OFVS, van Gogh animated on screen, movies and a dance party at SAC, and more

An artist who paints and sculpts with light and a young multihyphenate creator of art and music will each take over a portion of the Guild Hall museum galleries beginning on Saturday.

A full summer of concerts, plays, dance performances, comedy, talks, and more goes on sale Wednesday at Guild Hall. Some events may sell out quickly.

Guild Hall’s new public database of its permanent collection has been greeted by some with surprise. It is not the multiyear project that culminated in its going live in February that raises eyebrows so much, rather it is the notion that the museum has a collection at all.

A seven-minute film made 30 years ago generated a fascinating and frequently entertaining 75-minute discussion about architecture and the architect-client relationship at the Parrish Art Museum.

Memorial Day is more than six weeks away, but it’s never too early to secure tickets for some shows and programs. Witness the return of the comedian Paula Poundstone to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on May 25. As of press time, only a handful of seats remain for what is certain to be a sold-out performance.

Film screenings of "Wall Street" and "Free Solo," a "Star Is Born" concert, and a salute to Danny Kaye

Art Groove returns; RJD's annual art show for The Retreat; Walsh on Walsh, women realists at Grenning, and much more

“Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation,” a series at the Parrish Art Museum, will present a screening of a satiric short film and a panel discussion about the dynamics of architect-client relationships on Friday.

The Hedges-Edwards Barn, dating from around 1770, was originally located on the west side of Main Street in East Hampton, where the library now stands. E.J. Edwards first moved it around 1910 to his nearby property on Edwards Lane.

“Man of La Mancha,” the classic 1965 musical, will open at the Quogue Community Hall today and run through April 7. The production is the first fully staged musical in the 34-year history of the Hampton Theatre Company.

The photographs of Renate Aller and Jean-Luc Mylayne reflect an obsessive focus on the poetry and mystery of the natural world. On Sunday, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open solo exhibitions of each artist’s work that complement each other while at the same time highlighting the differences between their approaches to their subject matter.

This is a story about the spiritual inhabitants of places where you might expect them — the Rogers Mansion and the Thomas Halsey Homestead, which are part of the Southampton History Museum — and a place you would not: the East Hampton Library.

He may be most beloved as celluloid’s eternal youth in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the 1986 John Hughes film that never ages no matter how dated the references and fashion. Yet the Amagansett part-timer Matthew Broderick has proven himself a flexible and consummate actor in the years since in many featured and walk-on roles in film, theater, and television, including one of his biggest star turns on Broadway and then in the movie version of “The Producers.”

Kenny Schachter has built a career on being the ultimate art world insider/outsider. He oscillates between being a dealer, lecturer, and art market chronicler, a position that has made him a celebrity in some circles, predominantly for his writing for Artnet News from a home base in London.

Elissa Mott Derry took a painting she thought was painted by Thomas Moran to the the East Hampton Historical Society's appraisal day. The result was surprising.

Viewing Naama Tsabar’s pieces merely as colorful felt sculptures, shaped and complemented by piano string, would ignore at least 50 percent of the work’s content.

Barthélémy Toguo, an artist from Cameroon, will take over some of the Parrish's galleries and spaces this year with "The Beauty of Our Voices," this year's Platform exhibition.

A new show of the Pollock-Krasner House's permanent collection will include artworks by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and others.