Arts

Susan Kaufman's photographs of the city's handsome facades, ornate buildings, townhouses with their high-windowed loveliness, flower-bedecked stoops, and hidden alleys are all the things one rarely associates with the megacity's fiercely splendid, in-your-face personality. 

Firestone expands, Harper's celebrates, Pace and Hauser & Wirth reopen, artist talks, a new studio in Springs, new shows at Madoo, Tripoli, ARC Fine Art, Colm Rowan, and Kramoris.

Bay Street returns to a full, in-person summer season with a dark comedy directed by Jason Alexander, plus a tropical drama, "Ragtime: The Musical," and a lineup of popular comedians and musicians.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will once again have its annual cocktail party in the thrift store, but this time for a different event.

Guitar virtuoso in two concerts, jazz for families in Springs, Feiffer and Popeye in Sag, classical piano in Southampton, new music under the stars in Southold

Lisa Perry has transformed a midcentury modern Georgica house into a collaborative environment for the exchange of ideas and the exhibition of art focused on women.

Click, a new venture from Shelter Island's Alexandra Fairweather, will preserve artists' archives and issue NFTs of the archival material to reach newer generations.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate its first birthday with "Top Gun," Altman's "Popeye," Tarantino's "Jackie Brown," Schnabel's "At Eternity's Gate," and a racy 1933 Hollywood comedy.

Following expressions of concern from the public, Guild Hall's leadership announced Wednesday night that it had decided to “pause and reflect” on its planned theater upgrades.  

HamptonsFilm will return to Herrick Park with weekly classic summer film screenings and to theaters with SummerDocs.

Site-specific sculpture at Lazy Point, artist talks at The Church in Sag Harbor, Southampton African American Museum opens with "BIPOC Experience," solo shows by Mary Ellen Bartley, Maureen Dougherty, Reuben Kadish, and Arthur Pinajian.

Christopher Durang play at LTV, Amanda Fairbanks talks about "The Lost Boys of Montauk," auditions for Boots on the Ground theater, Band ach and Handel in Sag Harbor

"A Doll's House, Park 2," a 2017 sequel to Ibsen's classic, is coming to the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

A performer, a writer, a composer, and a dancer will present their work in progress at the Watermill Center.

New York State earmarks $140 million in aid to arts organizations and artists from New York State Council on the Arts.

In speaking to representatives of several South Fork cultural organizations, it was clear that virtual programming is here to stay in some form.

Four days of music in Montauk with more than 80 bands rocking around the clock, plus jazz in Southampton and Out East at the Talkhouse

For a new show at the Parrish Art Museum, Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas bring together more than 50 works by six female artists of color.

The 11th annual Montauk Music Festival will bring more than 80 performers from near and far to the hamlet for four days of music starting Thursday at 6:30 p.m., with an opening party at the Westlake Fish House featuring music by 10 festival bands, cocktails, appetizers, and dancing.

Paula Poundstone has performed at the Bay Street Theater so often that she needs no introduction. She will bring her lightning wit to Sag Harbor on May 28.

An Andy Warhol "Marilyn" painting that sold for $195 million on Monday set up a week of anticipated auctions, including paintings by Pollock and de Kooning expected to net healthy sums in Christie's auction on Thursday.

Guild Hall and Bel Canto Book Camp will bring emerging opera stars to East Hampton for residencies and performances.

Concerts by Caroline Doctorow (singer-songwriter), Bruce Wolosoff (pianist and composer), and Ariel Horowitz (violinist), and a talk on Frederick Law Olmsted

"Right Before I Go," conceived by Stan Zimmerman, directed by Valerie diLorenzo, and starring a host of well-known local actors, will be staged at LTV Studios in Wainscott on Saturday and May 21. The production, which aims to "break the silence and create discussion," is also a fund-raiser for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Preservation Long Island has sent letters to Guild Hall's leadership as well as various East Hampton Village officials asking them to consider the historic significance of its interiors.

A new documentary by Markie Hancock tells the story of the founding of the Retreat and the ongoing but underreported incidences of domestic violence on the East End.

Beating the odds, three Long Island filmmakers sell their self-produced comedy special to Netflix.

East End painters at Ashawagh Hall, floral beauty at Grenning, celebrity photos at White Room, videos in Southampton, and a slew of solo shows

Topiary workshops at Madoo, Music for Montauk, concerts at the Parrish and the Southampton Cultural Center, Public Gardens Day in Bridge

The painter Brian O'Leary talks about his own work, the nature of painting, and his friendships with Rauschenberg and Lichtenstein.