Grants Announced
The Hamptons Arts Network, a consortium of 19 nonprofit cultural organizations on the East End, in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts, has awarded $168,000 in unrestricted grants of $2,000 each to 84 artists, musicians, writers, and performers living and working in the region who were adversely affected by Covid-19.
The artists Eric Fischl and Clifford Ross took the lead in fund-raising and donated matching gifts to jump-start the network's Artist Relief Fund. Other contributors included artists, arts professionals, and art galleries, as well as the Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the Dedalus Foundation, which was established by the late Robert Motherwell.
The Hamptons Arts Network is dedicated to promoting collaboration, partnerships, and shared programming among its members, as well as advancing the creative economy of the region.
Focus on the Figure
“Tempus Fugit,” an exhibition of works on paper from the collection of Eric Fischl and April Gornik, is on view in the historic Prime House, 31 Madison Street in Sag Harbor, through Tuesday.
The show includes 40 works that depict the human figure, nude and clothed, from drawings to watercolors, by modern and contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, Pierre Bonnard, August Rodin, Gustav Klimt, Diane Arbus, Alice Neel, and others.
Ms. Gornik and Mr. Fischl originally bought the 18th-century house to set up a residency program, but with their subsequent purchase of The Church in Sag Harbor and the impending sale of the Prime House, that project has been merged with the residency program at The Church.
The '50s at Firestone
“The 1950s,” the first of a series of fall exhibitions that will focus on specific decades, is on view at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton through Oct. 18. The show includes work by 25 artists, among them Joseph Albers, Elaine de Kooning, Dorothy Dehner, Jane Freilicher, Sidney Geist, Joseph Glasco, Mimi Gross, Louise Nevelson, Miriam Schapiro, and Joe Stefanelli.
Kilims and Dish Towels
“Rugs and Dish Towels,” an installation of dish towels from Elena del Rivero’s “Suffrage” series and kilims from the collection of Linda Miller, will open at Studio 11 in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and continue through Oct. 11.
Ms. del Rivero created the monumental painted dish towels in part to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment but also to blur the boundaries between home and studio, private and public, art and craft, and to celebrate the kitchen, which, she has said, was “for centuries the prison for women.”
Beginning in the 1970s, Ms. Miller and her husband, Steve, artists and proprietors of Studio 11, traveled extensively abroad, including to Turkey and Afghanistan, in search of kilims. A longtime dealer of antique rugs, Ms. Miller will show a selection from her collection.
Moholy-Nagy's Bauhaus
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present an outdoor screening tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. of “The New Bauhaus,” Alysa Nahmias’s documentary about Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a pioneering artist and professor at the original Bauhaus. In 1937 he was invited to establish the New Bauhaus, a Chicago art institution that championed modern design. The film weaves original interviews, archival footage, voice-over, and stylized filming to create a portrait of the artist’s life and work.
The screening will be preceded at 6:30 by a conversation with Marquise Stillwell and Ashley Lukasik, the film’s producers, and Petter Ringbom, a filmmaker. Andras Szanto, a writer and researcher in the arts, will moderate.
Tickets to the outdoor program are $20, $10 for members. The film will also be available for streaming, through Wednesday, for $12, $10 for members. The talk will be streamed online for free. Preregistration and advance ticket purchase are required. Guests have been advised to take their own seating.
Jennings in Bridge
Chase Edwards Contemporary in Bridgehampton will open “Coastal Disturbances,” a show of paintings by Janet Jennings, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.
After she moved to the East End in 1981, Ms. Jennings shifted her focus from color field to landscape painting. Many of her seascapes are dominated by the sky, the sea, and the horizon line, but within that format, light and weather work endless variations.
Ms. Jennings has long been focused on the dangers of global warming, and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of works in the exhibition will be donated to Drawdown East End, a grassroots group concerned with local solutions to climate change. The show will run through Oct. 12.
Group Show at Fireplace Project
“Three Day Weekend,” an exhibition organized by Pamela Willoughby and Victoria de Lesseps, will be on view at the Fireplace Project in Springs from tomorrow through Sunday, from noon to 6 daily.
The show includes work by Roisin Bateman, Don Christensen, Saskia Friedrich, Mary Heilmann, Dennis Leri, Sabra Moon Elliot, and Amy Wickersham, among others. A reading with Tom House and Warren Neidich will take place Sunday at 3.
Art in Focus
Stony Brook Southampton's library will sponsor Art in Focus, a series of free talks via Zoom beginning Tuesday with Helen Harrison on Jackson Pollock and Jazz. Future talks will feature Christian White, an artist, speaking on reconciling realism with modernism on Oct. 13, and Nancy Moses, who will discuss the art world's fakes, forgeries and frauds on Oct. 27.
The talks begin at 6 p.m. and require registration. More details and a link to registration can be found at library.stonybrook.edu/southampton-library/.
