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Chatting Up ‘The Mission’

On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, HamptonsFilm will screen Roland Joffe’s “The Mission,” from 1986, which received seven Oscar nominations, including a win for cinematography. A conversation with Alec Baldwin will follow.

Feb 6, 2020
Fire and Dust, Metal and Folk

Skylar Day's sensibilities are at once dusty boots and folk music and the fiery power chords of a heavy metal guitar player in the band Gravitywell.

Feb 6, 2020
Mining a Film Find For Pure Gold

Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” an "instantaneously recognizable masterpiece,” will have its Long Island premiere on Feb. 16 at Bay Street Theater.

Feb 6, 2020
Opinion: A Sculptor Turns Painter and Back

Hiroyuki Hamada’s paintings reveal an emotive and sometimes even gestural approach that seems at odds with his more considered and restrained sculptures.

Feb 6, 2020
The Art Scene: 02.06.20

A film on Clyfford Still at the Parrish, East End artists in New York and abroad, and a call for artists.

Feb 6, 2020
A New Orleans Brass Blast

The Real East End Brass Band can be found jamming New Orleans brass band jazz standards, mashing in the sounds of classic rock, ska, reggae, and punk, composing original music, and playing high-energy shows at local breweries, restaurants, festivals, and other venues.

Jan 30, 2020
Another Southampton Takeover

A pure experiment has already evolved into a tradition as 10 artists begin their takeover the Southampton Arts Center for two months.

Jan 30, 2020
Bits and Pieces: 01.30.20

Almodovar, Gershwin, classic country music, LongHouse's winter benefit, and more in this week's cultural offerings

Jan 30, 2020
New Watermill Center Residents Announced

The Watermill Center has announced its 18 artist residents for 2020 and the award of four Inga Maren Otto Fellowships.

Jan 30, 2020
Opinion: Warhol's Wandering Lens

Photography was an essential part of Andy Warhol's process — the source for sketches that became drawings and illustrations he used as a commercial artist and privately and later the images he chose to reproduce for his silkscreens.

Jan 30, 2020
The Art Scene: 01.30.20

Arlene Bujese's annual group show at Markel and new shows by Nivola and Dever opening in the area

Jan 30, 2020
'All My Sons' on Screen

Arthur Miller’s play “All My Sons” will be screened Friday night at Guild Hall in a performance recorded previously from the Old Vic in London.

Jan 23, 2020
'Incitement' Revisits the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

A new film by Yaron Zilberman, an Israeli-American, goes back to a time when peace between Palestinians and Israelis was not only conceivable but even imminent, and illustrates why efforts by both sides to achieve it have ultimately failed.

Jan 23, 2020
A New Head for the Church

The Church, an arts and cultural center planned for the old Methodist Church in Sag Harbor, has its first director as of Jan. 1.

Jan 23, 2020
Andy Aledort's Deep Blues on Tap

This mostly mild winter will heat up a little more on Saturday when Andy Aledort and the Groove Kings come to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for a 10 p.m. show.

Jan 23, 2020
Live Music, Live Stories at LTV

A night of live music will happen at LTV Studios in Wainscott tomorrow at 7 with performances by two Long Island funk bands, the Kenny Harris Project and Funkin’ A.

Jan 23, 2020
Opinion: A Woke New World

Do white liberals hate themselves? Are quota systems fair, or even logical? How dark must your skin be to be considered a “person of color”? These are just some of the questions raised by “Admissions," a satire chosen by the Hampton Theatre Company.

Jan 23, 2020
The Art Scene: 01.23.20

Love and Passion returns, Bird and Little fly solo at Halsey McKay, and more

Jan 23, 2020
Devon Leaver: Now Showing at Sundance

Devon Leaver, who as a child sang in the aisles of local grocery stores, has both film and voice projects attracting attention and audiences this month in places such as the Sundance Film Festival.

Jan 22, 2020
Bits and Pieces: 01.16.20

Classes in playwriting and improv at Guild Hall, "Les Miserables" brings the French classic up to date via HamptonsFilm, and stand-up comedy returns to Bay Street

Jan 16, 2020
Catching Up to a Visionary

Certain figures in history are so avant-garde they often have to wait years and even decades for the world to catch up to them. The artist Louise Bourgeois is one of those visionaries. A film at the Parrish explores her legacy.

Jan 16, 2020
Holding ‘a Mirror to White Liberalism’

Joshua Harmon's “Admissions,” an examination of white privilege, white power, white anxiety, and white guilt, will begin a three-week run by the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue Thursday. It is directed by Andrew Botsford.

Jan 16, 2020
Opinion: ‘A Delicate Balance’ Wobbles

Edward Albee's “A Delicate Balance” has neither the savage extravagance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” nor the psychodramatic ingenuity of “Three Tall Women.” But the production at the Southampton Cultural Center is a commendable one.

Jan 16, 2020
The Art Scene: 01.16.20

New shows at Drawing Room in East Hampton, White Room in Bridgehampton, an Artists Alliance show at Ashawagh Hall, and more

Jan 16, 2020
Winter Garden Blues (and Reds and Yellows)

In the bleak and short days of winter, there can still be some color and interest in the garden to sustain us until spring. Holger Winenga, the horticulturalist at LongHouse Reserve, shared what he enjoys planting and seeing in the winter garden.

Jan 16, 2020
An Eclectic International Mix

The East Hampton Library's film series, which begins on Sunday, will feature a varied group of classics and recent releases from Israel, France, Spain, and Italy.

Jan 9, 2020
An ‘Osmotic Relationship’ Between Art and Architecture

Nishan Kazazian has been making art for more than 50 years and practicing architecture for almost as long. The two enterprises are distinct enough that he maintains websites devoted to each.

Jan 9, 2020
Bits and Pieces: 01.09.20

Bay Street offers new performance classes, Southampton Arts Center addresses the environment through a daylong festival, more film screenings, and the return of The Met opera screenings at Guild Hall.

Jan 9, 2020
Choosing 'A Delicate Balance' in Southampton

“A Delicate Balance” will open a three-week engagement at the cultural center Friday at 7 p.m. Joan Lyons will direct.

Jan 9, 2020
The Art Scene: 01.09.20

Nightingale opens new group show, art and the environment meet at the Parrish, and Hiroyuki Hamada in N.Y.C.

Jan 9, 2020