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Guild Hall’s Members Winners Past and Present

Jeff Muh's sculpture "Callipyge" took home Top Honors and the chance to have his own solo show at Guild Hall during the 80th annual Artist Members Exhibition on Saturday.

Apr 17, 2018
Open Call for "Baubo," This Summer's Neo-Political Cowgirls Production

The Neo-Political Cowgirls will hold auditions for “Baubo,” a new production that will have its premiere in Montauk this summer, on April 29 between noon and 2:30 in East Hampton.

Apr 17, 2018
Hector Leonardo’s “Mercier” has applied strips of acrylic paint on canvas stretched over a wood panel. Below, a Gustavo Bonevardi “Composition.” Spring Sneaks Into the Drawing Room

The Drawing Room gallery in East Hampton is celebrating the vernal equinox with a show of works loosely or directly related to the season.

Apr 17, 2018
The Art Scene 04.19.18

Earth Day at Ashawagh; 'Virtuosity' at Grenning, a new art class at Bridge Gardens

Apr 17, 2018
Dianne Benson’s collection of Peter Hujar’s photographs, primarily from promotional work the artist did for her Dianne B. stores in Manhattan, have been on view lately in a Hujar retrospective at the Morgan Library (“Blanket in the Famous Chair,” above left, and right, “You Wouldn't Dare,” Lori Goldstein.) and at Christie’s auction house, where a sizable number of images from her collection were for sale. A Downtown Chronicler’s East End Connection

Peter Hujar’s current moment in the city has a direct tie to Dianne Benson, an East Hampton resident whose groundbreaking store, Dianne B., set fashion trends in Manhattan during the ’70s and ’80s.

Apr 10, 2018
The Idomeni refugee camp in Greece from a scene in "Human Flow" Ai Weiwei's 'Human Flow' Will Be Screened in Water Mill

“Human Flow,” a powerful visual expression of the forced migration of more than 65 million people, will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Friday at 6 p.m.

Apr 10, 2018
For Flute and Piano and the Organ Restoration Fund

A classical recital featuring Allison Bourquin O’Reilly on flute and Daniel Koontz on piano will take place on Sunday afternoon at 2 at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor.

Apr 10, 2018
A detail from Nicolas Tarr's lensed box "House of Mystery," one of approximately 400 works on view in Guild Hall's 80th artist members exhibition, which opens on Saturday. Guild Hall's Members Show Turns 80

The annual Guild Hall Artist Members exhibition will celebrate its 80th anniversary when it opens on Saturday with a reception for members from 5 to 7 p.m.

Apr 10, 2018
Soloists from Mexico’s Opera San Miguel, from left, Carlos Lopes, Alejandra Sandoval, Cesar Delgado, and Diana Peralta, joined John Daly Goodwin, the guest conductor, right, in the spring concert of the Choral Society of the Hamptons. Rossini’s Mass: A Delightful ‘Sin of Old Age’

Why would a highly successful composer who hadn’t written any music in over 30 years decide to write a piece in a genre he had never before attempted? The audience at Sunday’s performance by the Choral Society of the Hamptons was left with both a mystery to ponder and music to savor.

Apr 10, 2018
South Fork Bell Choirs' Battle of the Hands

The handbell choirs from the Bridgehampton and Southampton Presbyterian Churches and the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will combine for the annual Spring Ring, a food pantry benefit concert on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Southampton church.

Apr 10, 2018
The Art Scene: 04.12.18

Claire Watson at Ille; "Double Play" at Halsey McKay; Cameron Welch at Rental, and more

Apr 10, 2018
“Mary Nimmo Moran at Age 42” The Genius of Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Nimmo Moran's life and career will be the subject of a talk at Clinton Academy on April 21, tied to the opening of the newly restored Moran Studio this summer.

Apr 10, 2018
Verdi’s ‘Luisa Miller’ at The Met Through Guild Hall

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall with Placido Domingo as Miller, the title character's father.

Apr 10, 2018
This week, the Choral Society of the Hamptons will give two concerts celebrating spring. Choral Society of the Hamptons: Rossini in Spring

For its spring concert the Choral Society of the Hamptons will perform Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” on Sunday at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Apr 3, 2018
Martin Fabricius, a Danish vibraphonist and composer, will lead a group, including Claes Brondal, in performance at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday. Fabricius Front and Center and in Southampton

The Martin Fabricius Group, featuring a Danish vibraphonist, is the latest guest of Claes Brondal and his Live From Southampton Arts Center series on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Apr 3, 2018
Guild House will not only be home for Guild Hall’s five resident artists in April, it will also be the site of collaborative projects to be presented to the public at the end of the month. Guild Hall Residency Program Takes Residence as Focus

Guild Hall’s latest artists-in-residence moved into Guild House on Monday for a month-long stay, focused on using that building as a site for collaborative works and culminating in a presentation at the end of their stay.

Apr 3, 2018
Jimi Hendrix Tribute Band in Sag Harbor

Kiss the Sky: The Jimi Hendrix Re-Experience will take the stage at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Apr 3, 2018
James V. Hart will lead Saturday’s master class in screenwriting. Master Screenwriter to Share How to Map a Story

This year's mentor for the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab open master class is James V. Hart, inventor of the Hart Chart, a story mapping tool.

Apr 3, 2018
Niccolo Ronchi Is Next Rising Star in Southampton

Niccolo Ronchi will give a concert of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt on Saturday as part of the Cultural Center’s Rising Stars piano series.

Apr 3, 2018
OLA Dance Party in Sag Harbor

OLA of Eastern Long Island will present Pachanga 2018: Viva La Mujer! — an evening of live music and dancing celebrating OLA’s founders — Friday at 7 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Apr 3, 2018
The Art Scene: 04.05.18

James Casebere and new Saturday classes at the Parrish Art Museum; Folioeast to show “Sky, Sea, Land,” and Art Groove at Ashawagh Hall

Apr 3, 2018
Saskia Friedrich, whose "Love" was installed in the bay in front of the Art Barge on Napeague in 2015, will open her studio at the Watermill Center. Watermill to Present Three Artists in Residence on Saturday

In Process @ the Watermill Center will feature presentations by three current residents on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. A tour of the center begins at 1.

Apr 3, 2018
Virva Hinnemo’s “Four Feet,” an acrylic-on-canvas painting from last year Emotion and Restraint in Hinnemo's Paintings in NYC

Although the cardboard she adopted as a primary medium a few years ago is still present in the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo, Virva Hinnemo’s focus has lately shifted back to paper and, ultimately, to canvas.

Mar 27, 2018
"Lotus Yangtze" by Perry Burns will be part of "East End Collected4," opening at the Southampton Arts Center this weekend Going for Four With East End Collected

The fourth iteration of “East End Collected,” the annual Southampton Arts Center exhibition organized by the artist Paton Miller, is a testament to the breadth and vitality of the East End art community. The 30 artists included in this year’s show, which will open on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., bring to almost 200 the number of those who have participated in the exhibitions.

Mar 27, 2018
Kelli O'Hara as Despina and Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso in "Cosi Fan Tutti" Mozart’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutti’ and Auditions at Guild Hall

This week, Guild Hall has The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” and auditions for a new play "The Summit" to be presented in August.

Mar 27, 2018
New Works Fest

Title Wave at Bay Street: The Fifth Annual New Works Festival will take place at the Sag Harbor theater from May 4 through May 6. It will include four new plays and musicals in development.

Mar 27, 2018
Ruby Jackson's "Sea of Dreams" will be on view at Ashawagh Hall this weekend. The Art Scene: 03.29.18

“The 7th Circle” at the Southampton Cultural Center; Seven at Ashawagh; Wednesday Group at Amagansett Library

Mar 27, 2018
Watermill's Pre-Summer Party in Manhattan

As part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Watermill Center is holding a pre-summer party at Spring Place in TriBeCa next Thursday from 7 p.m. until 1 a.m.

Mar 27, 2018
Jessica Howard and Scott Hofer in the Hampton Theatre Company’s production of “The Boys Next Door” in Quogue. What’s So Funny About Dignity and Compassion?

In a time when tolerance, compassion, and human dignity seem in short supply, theatergoers can enjoy a major dose of all three at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, where Tom Griffin’s “The Boys Next Door” is running now through April 8.

Mar 27, 2018
The cast of "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers, now onstage at Guild Hall. A Classic Love Story Set to Teen Heartbeat

Directed by Josh Gladstone, the theater’s artistic director, Guild Hall's "Romeo and Juliet" revival stays true to the original text while the staging turns the world’s greatest love story into a big, participatory party that is fun for younger audiences.

Mar 20, 2018