Arts

Many otherwise plugged-in cultural cog­noscenti of the South Fork might be surprised to learn that Philippe de Montebello is this year’s recipient of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. It is not that the former and longtime Metropolitan Museum of Art director does not deserve it, but rather that few, if any, know he actually spends time here. He would like to keep it that way.

Paper and Canvas

    Ille Arts in Amagansett will reopen Saturday with “Paper and Canvas in Conversation,” an exhibition curated by Denise Gale that will remain on view through April 5. Work by Eugene Brodsky, Don Christensen, Mary Heilmann, Anne Russinof, Arlene Slavin, and Ms. Gale will be included in the show.

    Nevada is coming to Southampton on March 15 when the annual Viva Las Vegas! benefit takes place from 7 to 11 p.m. at Seasons of Southampton. The evening will include music, dancing, an open bar, and an hors d’oeuvres buffet. For those feeling lucky, there will be a Texas hold ’em poker tournament, a Chinese auction, a silent auction, and a 50-50 raffle.

    Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre’s London stage production of “War Horse” on Saturday at 7 p.m. Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, “War Horse” is a drama about the harrowing journey of a horse from rural Devon to the battlefields of France during World War I. The production features South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company’s galloping, full-scale “horses,” whose flanks, hides, and sinews are built of steel, leather, and aircraft cables. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

    A screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film “Vertigo,” presented by Guild Hall and the Hamptons International Film Festival, drew a full house to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday night.

    Following the screening, the actor Alec Baldwin, who has a house in Amagansett, hosted a brief but equally entertaining forum with David Nugent, the festival’s artistic director.

    The Met: Live in HD will resume at Guild Hall at noon on Saturday with Alexander Borodin’s epic “Prince Igor.” Famous for its Polovtsian dances, the opera is being staged at the Met for the first time in almost 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a psychological journey through the mind of its protagonist, played by Ildar Abdrazakov, with the founding of Russia as its backdrop. Tickets to the four-and-a-half-hour program are $22, $20 for members, $15 for students.

    Bay Street Theatre’s new artistic director, Scott Schwartz, has chosen three plays to be performed there this summer, which, he promised last week, will not be your run-of-the-mill summer season.

    “I feel passionately that the audiences at Bay Street Theatre and audiences across the East End want to see fresh, exciting things you can’t see anywhere else,” said Mr. Schwartz. Not one to play it safe, he is filling two of the three slots with new works by authors making their East End debuts; the third play is a revival of a contemporary classic.

    What, you may well ask, could possibly be the connection between a lunar rover and bas-relief sculpture made by folding paper?

    On its face, there does not seem to be one, but once the demands of engineering and architecture are considered, a thread of continuity appears.

    While the founding families of Shelter Island — the Sylvesters, the Havenses, the Nicolls — are well-known cornerstones of the island’s history, the slaves and Native Americans who built and inhabited the island are not as widely recognized. “Race and Ethnicity on Shelter Island: 1652-2000,” a new exhibition at the Shelter Island Historical Society, celebrates their role in the island’s history.

    The East Hampton Historical Society’s winter lecture series, In Their Own Words: Voices From East Hampton’s Past, continues tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Clinton Academy with “The Rustic Manners of Old East Hampton: John Howard Payne’s 1838 Recollections of His Boyhood.”

    “John Howard Payne came to East Hampton sometime between 1832 and 1834,” Hugh King, the director of the Home, Sweet Home Museum, told the village board at its meeting on Friday. “While he was here, he took notes. He wrote a whole article about what East Hampton was like in the 1830s.”

Workshops at the Parrish

    The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering two new workshops for artists of all skill levels during March. Linda Capello, an artist from Sag Harbor whose work focuses on the figure, will teach life drawing in a four-session series beginning Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. and concluding March 26. Participants will draw male and female models through gesture sketches and longer observation. The cost is $120 for four classes, $95 for Parrish members.

     “Get Paid to Talk,” an introductory class focused on the voice-over profession, will be held at the Southampton Cultural Center Monday evening from 6:30 to 9. Conducted by an instructor from voicecoaches.com, the class will cover how voice-overs are created, finding one’s specific vocal niche, where to find work opportunities, and how to avoid common mistakes.

    HITFest, the Hamptons Independent Theatre Festival, will present the fifth episode of the “Water’s Edge Radio Hour” Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House, where it will be recorded live for broadcast on WPPB 88.3 FM.

    Conceived by John Landes, Joshua Perl, and Peter Zablotsky and inspired in part by “A Prairie Home Companion,” the program features comedy sketches by the Naked Stage Players and music by Telly Karoussos and Brad Penuel of Hopefully Forgiven.

    Don Christensen’s studio in Barnes Landing recalls the way New York City lofts looked before they became high-priced “loft-apartments.” Storage racks, worktables, tools and materials, and walls hung with paintings identify it as the domain of a working artist. At one end is a drum set, a clue to the other career — musician — that has figured as prominently in his life.

    The Montauk Library will host a free concert of Bulgarian folk music Saturday evening at 7:30. Vlada Tomova, an internationally acclaimed Bulgarian vocalist, will perform with Chris Rael, an American guitarist who plays sitar, guitarra Portuguesa, Turkish Zas, and the 12-string guitar. The program will include Ms. Tomova’s arrangements of authentic Bulgarian folk music as well as her English-language repertoire.

    Performance holds the stage at the Watermill Center during the coming week. “My Voice Has an Echo in It,” a durational performance by Temporary Distortion, will take place Saturday from 2 to 8 p.m. Temporary Distortion is a New York-based group currently in residence at the center.

    Akiko Kobayashi, a violinist, and Eric Siepkes, a pianist, will perform a program of works from Beethoven to Schumann Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. Both musicians, who are based in New York, perform as solo artists and as a duo.

    Ms. Kobayashi has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Yonkers Philharmonic, Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra, and the Berkshires International Festival Orchestra.

     “Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller, will be screened Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the John Drew Theater. Alec Baldwin and David Nugent, artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, will host the screening and subsequent discussion. Tickets are $22, $20 for members.

    Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, “Vertigo” was named best film of all time in the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine critics’ poll of 2012, replacing “Citizen Kane.”

   A sing-along in memory of Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi, will take place on Saturday afternoon at 3 at Christ Episcopal Church on East Union Street in Sag Harbor. The free program will be led by Terry Sullivan, Dan Koontz, and Bill and Ben Chaleff.

    Mr. Sullivan, who lives in Sag Harbor and is known as “the singing plumber,” performed with the great folk singer in more than 100 shows over the past 20 years, including Carnegie Hall’s 100th birthday, when he appeared with Seeger and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Love and Passion Redux

    The opening reception for “Love and Passion: Walk on the Wild Side,” a collaboration between Karyn Mannix Contemporary, Hampton Hang, and the Sara Nightingale Gallery that was canceled because of last weekend’s storm, has been rescheduled for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

    Art will be on view at both Hampton Hang and Sara Nightingale, Water Mill neighbors, and the Blind Date Music Lab series will operate between the two galleries. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday.

News From Pollock-Krasner

    After several years writing about art critically, it is often surprising what ends up being surprising. Is it just the setting that makes a group show of East End artists so striking in a Chelsea gallery or is it the art itself?

    Guild Hall is presenting an HD screening of the current Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The first Broadway staging of the play in 36 years, it is directed by a five-time Tony nominee, David Leveaux, and was captured on film on Nov. 27 by Don Roy King, an Emmy Award-winner. Tickets are $18, $16 for members, and free student rush tickets are available.

    The Wolffer Estate in Sagaponack is throwing its annual Mardi Gras celebration on Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. The party will feature live music by the HooDoo Loungers, a New Orleans party band; an open wine bar, artisanal cheeses and charcuterie, and king’s cupcakes, a nod to the traditional Mardi Gras comestible, the king cake.

    Prizes will be awarded for the best mask and for the king or queen who finds the charm in the king’s cupcakes. Tickets are $75 plus tax and may be purchased at wolffer.com.

    Friends of the Watermill Center is a new, free membership program offered by the performing arts center. Friends will receive a membership card, a monthly newsletter, early access to open rehearsals, film screenings, and lectures, and an invitation to an annual members cocktail event.

    The Watermill Center is also soliciting applications to its 2014 international summer program. Individual artists from all disciplines who would like to work in a collaborative environment have been invited to apply. The deadline is March 12 at 5 p.m.

    Live on the Vine, a six-week music festival held in tasting rooms, hotels, and restaurants from Riverhead to Southold, offers an escape from winter’s chill now through March 16. Jazz, rock, blues, country, and bluegrass are on the menu, along with wines from 19 wineries.

    The best way to find detailed information about the more than 100 programs is to visit liwinterfest.com.

    The Russian Trio, an award-winning chamber ensemble from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, will perform on Saturday at 4 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton as part of the Music at St. Luke’s concert series.

    Featuring Nikita Borisevich on violin, Dmitry Volkov on cello, and Katherine Rick on piano, the group will perform works by Haydn, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Paganini, and Shostakovich. The Russian Trio has won prizes at several chamber music competitions and recently performed at the Kennedy Center.

    Not every artist manages to continue refreshing his work into his 70s, but Keith Sonnier, through the aid of a new studio space in Bridgehampton, has managed to do just that. The evidence is on view at Pace Gallery in Chelsea through Feb. 22.

    The artist chose his most regular medium quite early in his career. Graduating from Rutgers University with an M.F.A. in 1966, it was only two years later that he began working in the neon gas lighting that has defined his sculpture ever since.

Love and Passion in Water Mill

    The annual “Love and Passion” exhibition, whose theme this year is “Walk on the Wild Side,” will open Saturday in Water Mill at Hampton Hang and its neighbor the Sara Nightingale Gallery, and remain on view through Feb. 22. A collaboration between the two galleries and Karyn Mannix Contemporary, the show will feature more than 60 artists from around the country.

    Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls are partnering with the Retreat and Bay Street Theatre to participate in “V-Day, One Billion Rising” this evening at 7. V-Day is a global activist movement, founded by Eve Ensler, to end violence against women and girls.

    One Billion Rising is an annual event during which women around the world and the men who support them are invited to tell their stories, speak out, and dance as an expression of their demand for justice.

    The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall has a busy week ahead. The Met: Live in HD returns Saturday with a 1 p.m. screening of Dvorak’s opera “Rusalka.” Renée Fleming, fresh from her Super Bowl rendition of the National Anthem, plays the title role in the fairy-tale opera. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

    The free winter film series, presented in partnership with the East Hampton Library, is screening “Aliyah,” a French film about a young Parisian drug dealer who wants to make a fresh start by emigrating to Israel, on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.