Arts

More winter film screenings, Guild Hall announces this year's honorees, and more.

Alastair Gordon shares memories of Doug Thompson, a longtime friend and noted architect who died in November.

The Amagansett streetscape will soon suffer a significant loss with the closing of Ille Arts, which has been a vital source of culture and visual art in that hamlet at two different locations since March 2012.

A Southold artist's film seeks to preserve a Buddhist holy site.

“Viewpoints,” the Watermill Center’s conversation series devoted to creative themes, begins Wednesday with a talk by Andrina Wekontash Smith, a member of the Shinnecock Nation.

Sag Harbor Cinema will reopen in March as a community center as well as a three-screen movie theater for mainstream, independent, and classic films.

Saturday night D.J. and live music in Southampton and Sag Harbor

The Lee Freeman show at Rental Gallery in East Hampton is essentially just a few light-up sculptures in the window and entrance of the gallery, but that is by design.

Starting on Sunday, the Montauk Library will host “Twist and Shout: The Beatles on Film,” featuring all five of the Fab Four’s cinematic triumphs — and missteps — plus the director Ron Howard’s loving 2016 tribute to the band’s hundreds of live performances.

“I don’t know if I would have been a decent architect,” the film composer Carter Burwell recently mused, sitting in his private studio on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Amagansett. But his interests all come together in architecture.

"A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol" and East Hampton's Big Karma in Sag Harbor

Ric Burns’s fascinating new documentary opens in Sacks’s Greenwich Village apartment on Feb. 9, 2015, a month after he received a diagnosis of terminal cancer and not quite eight months before his death at 82.

Often a Christmas choral concert contains certain standards: the Vivaldi Gloria, the biblical narratives of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a few nostalgic English carols, and in conclusion an “all stand” for Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. This was something different.

A recent Saul Steinberg Foundation gift to the Parrish Art Museum is a collection of 49 works by the artist over four decades touching on most aspects of his creative practice.

Keyes Art stays home and travels, Hanukkah at Ezra Gallery, and Lee Freeman at Rental Gallery

Open studio and rehearsal day at Watermill Center on Saturday and swinging into Christmas with the vocal group Duchess at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Gene Casey will appear for a rare free showcase at the East Hampton Library on Saturday, playing original tunes and classic country and rock covers.

Dianne Blell photographs beauty: the beauty of ideal love, the beauty of the broken and ruined, and the beauty of art history.

The Sag Harbor Cinema’s final pre-opening film series pays tribute to moviegoing as a collective experience, and to the theaters where cinematic adventures unfold.

Now in its 15th year, Tripoli Patterson’s “Thanksgiving Collective” exhibition is a certifiable holiday tradition with now more than 50 artists on view in an oversized industrial shed in Wainscott.

Ille Arts launches its closing show on Saturday, with other openings at Folioeast, RJD Gallery, and MM Fine Art.

Holiday happening around the South Fork include a seasonal concert by Caroline Doctorow, Merry Madoo! and more

The Choral Society of the Hamptons has assembled a variety of joyful music drawn from the 19th century to the present for its holiday concert, “ ’Tis the Season: Offerings of Celebration and Renewal Old and New,” which will have two performances on Sunday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Seven South Fork galleries and scores of East End artists will be in the mix at Miami art week this year.

There is something loose and special about the Sag Harbor art gallery community, which can treat its art shows as intuitive and impromptu affairs. Often an open forum, it is not unusual for artists and curators to join the spaces in a last-minute collaboration.

Kathryn Szoka and Maryann Calendrille, who own Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, are on a first-name basis with one of their favorite poets, Emily Dickinson.

Galleries showing small works for holiday shoppers include Grenning and Romany Kramoris, and a Long Island artists show further west.

Now in its 12th year, Hamptons Doc Fest continues to grow with a new venue, the Southampton Arts Center, new awards and a first-class line up of films.

While some leaves still stubbornly cling to their trees, the turkey is roasting in the oven, and it finally seems appropriate for Christmas decorations and music, Bay Street Theater reminds us that it is never too early to think about summer.

The onset of winter might leave its gardens less hospitable, but the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack has other year-round enticements, including a painting exhibition and a book signing, both of which will take place this weekend in its summer studio.