Arts

Parrish offers shopping and surf film this weekend, late-night comedy at Bay Street Theater, and more.

“Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections From the Guild Hall Permanent Collection,” is notable for reminding us about the people behind the pictures and sculptures now on view.

Caplan Rose, a Sag Harbor company that organizes small, private tours of gardens, art, and architecture in the English countryside, has announced two spring excursions.

Halsey McKay has two new shows, Tripoli Gallery found a new space for its "Collective, and Beth O'Donnell has an open studio.

Bruce Wolosoff, a Shelter Island composer, has recently written a cello concerto that has been recorded by a Grammy Award-winning artist and one of the world’s top orchestras, and the album rose to the top 10 in a leading classical music chart.

Ted Hartley has lived such a full life that he could be excused for spending his days on the deck of his oceanfront house listening to the waves roll in.

The first sentence of the production notes for a new documentary about Audrey Flack describes her as an octogenarian and a trailblazer. What is clear from the film and can be corroborated by anyone who knows her is that she is much more of the latter than the former.

Though she may be better known locally for performances with South Fork bands, Evgenia Zilberberg, a Ross School instructor, is a trained violinist and vocalist with a distinguished history in classical music.

A post Thanksgiving house and garden tour, a multimedia presentation on climate change in Montauk, Native American heritage celebrated in Southampton, and more

A fire broke out in Michael Combs’s Southold sculpture studio on Nov. 8, destroying or damaging nine sculptures along with tools, decoys, and other carvings. The sculptures represented more than a year’s labor.

The Met: Live in HD will simulcast the company’s premiere of Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” on Saturday at Guild Hall. Written in 1983, it is “the third in a trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas.”

Bay Street’s Theater’s bracing revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun,” directed by Lydia Fort, absorbingly captures the militant passion and raw pain of being a black person in a white world.

Coco Myers said that when organizing the exhibition that became “For the Love of Painting” at Folioeast in East Hampton, she was inspired by painters who had been working for some time but had departed from their regular practices. The work the artists brought in was so fresh, in fact, that some of the paintings finished drying on the gallery walls.

Parrish receives a gift of Steinbergs, Sonnier on view in Chelsea, Carly Haffner at Guild Hall, modernism celebrated at Keyes Art, and more

On the 60th anniversary of the play’s first production on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” will open at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor Thursday evening and continue public performances through Dec. 1.

In Process at Watermill Center on Saturday, a screening of the play "Hansard" now running in London at Guild Hall, 60s pop at the library, and more.

“Every once in a while we jump right into the heavy, but this year we thought, let’s bring some comedy,” said Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, which organizes the Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons.

The Southampton Arts Center will launch two exhibitions devoted to printmaking with an open portfolio session, a print press demonstration, a panel discussion, and a public reception.

For the Rising Stars Piano Series on Saturday, Kara Huber, a Canadian-American concert artist, performed a program confirming her international renown for a flair for contemporary music. The mostly American program was in some ways a bit lighter than the typical piano recital, but no less substantial.

Ralph Gibson was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy after dropping out of high school. After qualifying for training as a photographer’s mate, he flunked out of photography school. Sixty-two years later, his photography earned him France’s highest order of merit, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

De Niro in the city, a studio visit, Cold War architecture, a new group show at Sara Nightingale, and more.

Although Courtney Sale Ross is now known primarily for the school that bears her name, there was a time when she was a producer and director of documentary films, including one on her neighbor Willem de Kooning.

The week in culture includes Shakespeare and Puccini screenings at Guild Hall, a salute to Julie Andrews, and short films at the Parrish Art Museum.

The Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Artists” exhibition is returning this weekend for its fourth go-round, with several triads of artists coming together to show how their work aligns (or not, as the case may be) across the greater creative community of the East End.

The word “very” just seems to go with Ralph Lauren. The way his citrus-hued puffa jackets just seem to go with all that green-and-blue tartan that is his trademark.

New shows at Ille Arts, Ashawagh Hall, RJD Gallery, the Amagansett Library, and elsewhere.

After years of discussion, restoration, and reconstruction, the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, open to the public for two seasons, is still not finished, but it is well on its way.

Carlos Soto, a director, designer, and performer, has organized the menu and overall environment for Icaros, the Watermill Center’s Artists’ Table Dinner, a celebration of the community with a performance directed by Lynsey Peisinger, a center artist-in-residence.

Friday brings Phoebe Waller-Bridge's reading of "Fleabag" at Guild Hall, The Sixties Show at Bay Street, and a Broadway sing-along at Southampton Arts Center.

After unveiling its new quarters, boasting 40,000 more square feet of exhibition space, in previews and an official opening on Oct. 21, the Museum of Modern Art has proven that it can be a site for multicultural and interdisciplinary art to come together in a way that recasts the canon of the last century and beyond.