Arts

South Fork cultural organizations are celebrating Black History Month with a variety of cultural programs, ranging from multimedia presentations about Black comedians and Sidney Poitier to a benefit performance by That Motown Band, jazz concerts, an Afrofuturism art exhibition, and more.

Hamptons Art Network presentation and jazz concert at The Church, comedy at the Southampton Cultural Center, roundtable gardening discussion in Bridgehampton.

Bay Street Theater will host a rockabilly dance party with Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, and launch three new classes.

The multipart exhibition “Artists Choose Parrish,” for which 41 contemporary artists selected work from the museum’s collection to pair with their own, yielded a plethora of fascinating juxtapositions across styles, mediums, and decades.

Gerald Brann and Yellow Brick Road, an Elton John tribute band, and three female comedians "of a certain age" will be at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.

Scott Bluedorn on Brooks and Park at Leiber Collection, window installation at Duck Creek, Ryan Wallace in Chelsea, group show at Kathryn Markel, talk on Dennis Oppenheim at the Parrish, Eric Firestone and Onna House in Florida.

A freestyle street/club dance jam will happen at The Church, featuring hip-hop, funk, soul, popping, locking, breaking, and other dance styles, with dance party breaks between performances.

“Can Music Heal?” discussion brings a composer-conductor to Sag Harbor, Guild Hall announces Academy of the Arts nominees, the Masonic Temple hosts the Roses Grove Band and the Jam Session, and R&B and rock are coming to Riverhead.

Sissy Sakvarlishvili, who left the country of Georgia after the Russian invasion and came to the U.S. in 2013, will host a program of Georgian national dances and culture at LTV Studios in conjunction with the Pesvebi Georgian Cultural Center.

While managing a law office for more than 40 years, Joan Lyons has pursued a second career as an actor and director, leading up to her direction of a staged reading of “The Glass Menagerie” at the Southampton Arts Center.

A simulcast of Bizet’s “Carmen” is coming to Bay Street Theater from the Metropolitan Opera, and Mike Birbiglia will return with two shows this summer.

Printmaking programs at The Church, winter critiques at the D’Amico Studio, a multimedia workshop at Guild Hall, Donald Sultan talks at the Parrish, art initiatives at the Springs Library, a solo show for Elizabeth Hazan, and art talks in Chelsea.

Adriana Barone’s life shuffles between helping others overcome trauma or psychological barriers through an array of energy healing techniques, and making art, a practice her self-healing made possible.

A commemorative exhibition of work by Paul Pavia brought the East End art community to Ashawagh Hall, where friends and fellow artists reflected on his work and his life.

A Florida cultural trip, Doyle Auctioneers looking for consignments, tales from the Mexican border, ghost hunting, standup comedy, and a virtual horticultural book group.

Solo shows for Hector Leonardi at Drawing Room and Craig Anthony Miller at Stella Flame, a late-night open studio at The Church, and a closing reception for the holiday show at Kramoris.

A supper club with music by Marta Sanchez and a four-course dinner at the American Hotel, classic rock at the Masonic Temple, and a Zac Brown tribute band.

Auditions announced for the Choral Society of the Hamptons and the Hampton Theatre Company, a violin virtuoso will play with Nancy Atlas at Bay Street, the horticultural alliance will focus on New Perennials, LongHouse is now open on winter weekends, and a film program at the Southampton Cultural Center.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host “Kinetic Grace,” a musical dance performance, and a wellness program on “Visioning the Year Ahead.”

Tripoli Gallery’s 19th annual "Thanksgiving Collective" features a diversity of work by more than 20 artists addressing existential angst and musings on death and other transitions, all of it worth seeing.

Frazer Dougherty, who launched LTV out of his garage in 1984, will be celebrated at LTV’s vast studio complex in Wainscott, where the recently deceased co-founder’s vision has been fully realized.

The next exhibition at The Church in Sag Harbor will focus on printmaking by artists and printers of the South Fork from 1965 to 2010, with works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, and Elaine de Kooning, as well as such contemporary artists as Mary Heilmann, Dan Rizzie, and April Gornik.

Group shows of East End artists are at Ellie Duke’s “Soft House,” Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, and 4 North Main Street in Southampton, while Grenning Gallery is featuring floral art and Eric Firestone is celebrating Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, which was active from 1990 to 2001.

Heidi Lender, a widely traveled writer and photographer who once lived in Springs, eventually put down roots in Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay, and established Campo Garzon, a creative institute offering art residencies, experiences, and events, including an annual art festival that brings thousands to the rural village.

The Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas are back at Bay Street on Saturday, along with Verdi’s “Nabucco” from The Met: Live in HD.

Bill Evans, WLNG’s Emmy-winning meteorologist, is up next in The Church’s Knowledge Friday series, a Tom Petty tribute band will rock the Suffolk in Riverhead, the Cherry Bombs will bring '80s music to Manhattan, and winter gardens are the subject at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

“The Glass Show” at Halsey McKay Gallery features an impressive variety of treatments and uses of the medium by 25 artists.

"It's such a small town, but the history is so vast," the East Hampton Historical Society director said. And he's looking for a place to store it all.

Paul Pavia remembered at Ashawagh Hall, East End artists featured in the city, and Leiber's outside artists come in at Markel.

Patricia Garcia-Gomez's winter swims, whether in Long Island Sound or on a Greek island, stimulate not only her art but her well-being and mental clarity.