Arts

    Christian Scheider, an actor and filmmaker from Sag Harbor, is hosting three screenings of films by Jacques Tati at the John Jermain Memorial Library in that village starting Wednesday at 5 p.m. with “The Big Day.” Tati, who died in 1982 at the age of 75, was a French comic actor, writer, and director whose recurring character was Mr. Hulot, a self-effacing man at odds with modern society.

New at the Drawing Room

    An exhibition of drawings by Christine Hiebert and sculpture by Diane Mayo opens tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton, where it will remain on view through March 10. Ms. Hiebert has investigated the art of drawing for 25 years, using traditional and nontraditional tools to create works ranging in size from a sheet of paper to rotunda wall installations in museums. The 10 drawings in this exhibition reveal the range of her experimentation over the last 20 years.

    If it was anyone else, it might be considered a garage sale, a large collection of mostly unrelated objects put out on display perhaps because the owner is redecorating or raising money for another purpose.

    Gérald Sibleyras's  “Le Vent des Peupliers” (“The Wind in the Poplars”), adapted for the English stage by Tom Stoppard as “Heroes,” is the second offering this year at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, and quite an offering it is, too.

    Guild Hall’s free winter film series, presented in partnership with the East Hampton Library, is screening “Teddy Bear,” a Danish film about a lonely, 38-year-old bodybuilder’s quest for love, on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in the John Drew Theater.

    A free screening of “Shored Up,” an 84-minute documentary by Ben Kalina about coastal development, sea level rise, and the science and policy debates surrounding these issues, will be held at the Westhampton Beach Library tonight at 7.

    While the film focuses on Long Beach Island in New Jersey and the Outer Banks in North Carolina, it poses questions relevant to any coastline community and includes footage captured after Superstorm Sandy. The program replaces the regular monthly meeting of the Southampton Citizen Advisory Committee (West) and is open to the public.

    Rick Darke, a designer, author, and photographer, will give an illustrated talk on “The Accidental Landscape: Celebrating the Collision of Culture and Ecology,” on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton.

    Mr. Darke’s projects include parks, transportation corridors, corporate and collegiate campuses, conservation developments, and botanic gardens. His newest book, “The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in Home Gardens,” will be published this year.

    This weekend’s musical menu at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton ranges from blues and jazz to classical. Rhonda Denet, a vocalist, and the Silver Fox Trio will perform a selection of jazz standards and soul classics that pay tribute to Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, and others, tomorrow evening at 7.

Leander Arnold, a mason from Springs, found a message in a bottle while working at the Thomas Moran House restoration on Main Street — a note commemorating the laying of the cornerstone for the artist’s studio.

No Vacation for Grenning

    The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor is inaugurating its first warehouse sale, complete with cookies and coffee, on Saturday morning at 10. The sale, which will be held in the gallery Fridays through Mondays this month and next, includes paintings, small sketches, works on paper, and a large selection of handmade frames.

    The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will hold open auditions for “The Foreigner,” a comedy by Larry Shue about a shy Englishman’s unexpected adventure at a lodge in rural Georgia, on Sunday and Monday, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Quogue Community Hall.

    Canio’s Cultural Cafe is offering “Climate Change: A Way Forward,” a workshop put together by the Northwest Earth Institute, on four Thursdays in January, beginning next Thursday, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The course will include readings of essays by Elizabeth Kolbert, Michael Pollan, and Bill McKibben, aimed at stimulating a discussion of climate change.

    Actors take note: Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will hold open auditions for Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County” on Jan. 18 at 3 p.m. and Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. at the center. Winner of five Tony Awards, including best play, “August: Osage County” takes place in the Oklahoma home of Beverly Weston, a 69-year-old alcoholic and former poet who has disappeared, and his wife, Violet, a manipulative alcoholic and addict.

    The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue is also opening a new production next Thursday. “Heroes,” translated from the French and adapted by Tom Stoppard from “The Wind in the Poplars” by Gerald Sibleyras, is set in France in 1959 in an old soldiers’ home, where three World War I veterans fantasize about regaining their freedom, despite their age and limitations.

The museum continues to attract major gifts and acquisitions to its new state-of-the-art facility in Water Mill, but the 2,700 works in its holdings are not all created equal.

    The Springs residence of Roger Ames and Elizabeth Bassine is an active place. On a recent afternoon, Mr. Ames’s daughter, Beth, and her boyfriend were working in the living room. Ms. Bassine returned from a walk with her son, Adam, and two large and exuberant dogs who proceeded to thump in and out through the pet door. In one corner of the living room, beneath several of Ms. Bassine’s large paintings, are a piano, a keyboard, and a laptop. Mr. Ames is a composer, and it’s a wonder there’s room for his muse there.

    Center Stage at Southampton Cultural Center is premiering “Sex: What She’s Really Thinking,” a new play by Ilene Beckerman, next Thursday at the Levitas Center for the Arts. Conceived by Ms. Beckerman with Michael Disher, director of Center Stage, the play presents the unspoken thoughts of women — and men — about sex, in a fast-paced series of monologues and sketches.

New at Crazy Monkey

    The Crazy Monkey Gallery in Amagansett is opening a new show tomorrow called “New Year=New Art.” Work by the gallery members Andrea McCafferty, Daniel Schoenheimer, Barbara Bilotta, June Kaplan, Ellyn Tucker, Bob Tucker, Mark E. Zimmerman, Bobbie Braun, Lance Corey, Beth O’Donnell and Melissa Hin will remain on view through Jan. 26.

    A reception is scheduled for Jan. 11 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Huey Landscapes at Harper’s

    An open rehearsal of “Lost Codes,” a work-in-progress by Ibrahim Quraishi, will be presented next Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Watermill Center, where Mr. Quraishi is currently an artist-in-residence.

    “Lost Codes” reflects Mr. Qurai­­shi’­s interest in the relationship between religious communities and their sacred rituals. To that end, he is said to be immersing himself in the East Hampton Jewish community and the Shaker community, to better understand the dynamics of rituals.

    Admission is free, but reservations are required.

    The 10th annual free winter film series at Guild Hall, presented in partnership with the East Hampton Library, kicks off Sunday at 4:30 p.m. with “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea,” the story of a 17-year-old French girl who emigrates to Israel with her family. Distressed by the hatred between Israelis and Palestinians, she writes a letter expressing her feelings and puts it into a bottle that her brother throws into the sea near Gaza. A few weeks later, she receives an email from a young Palestinian boy, and a long-distance friendship develops.

     Gail Levin has organized an exhibition of the work of Theresa Bernstein, now on view at the James Gallery at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

    Ms. Levin, who has a house in Bridgehampton, is distinguished professor of art history at the graduate center and Baruch College. She edited the exhibition catalog, with articles written by her, her students, and other scholars interested in Bernstein’s work.

    Friday nights in Sag Harbor will get a little warmer this winter with Bay Street’s new series Fireside Sessions With Nancy Atlas. Each Friday night at 8 in January and February, Ms. Atlas will be joined by a special guest.

    Free Grass Union, a bluegrass and folk-inspired band, will bring its unique musical stylings to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Saturday night at 8.

    The band features Gregory Butler, who may be familiar as a teacher to those with children in the East Hampton school system, on vocals and mandolin. He is joined by Kim Humphrey, who plays guitar and sings, and Mitch Erdman, who plays upright bass.

    The band was formed in 1999 and has since played at numerous fairs and festivals as well as bar and concert stages. Tickets cost $10 at the door.

    The Parrish Art Museum is hosting Into the Light, an early winter dance party, tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Music will be spun by D.J. Mister Lama, now of Sag Harbor, a self-described “Peruvian redneck from Texas who has been manipulating sound for more than 20 years.”

    Video from the tropics will heat up the atmosphere, and drinks and snacks will be available from the Café by Art of Eating. The cost is $10, free for members, and includes museum admission.

    Advance reservations may be made at parrishart.org.

    Marvin Hamlisch, a composer and longtime resident of Westhampton Beach and later Sag Harbor, will be the subject of a new PBS “American Masters” series documentary scheduled to premiere nationally and on WNET 13 tomorrow at 9 p.m.

    Mr. Hamlisch, who died in 2012, was the composer of Broadway musicals and movie soundtracks. His credits include “A Chorus Line” and hit songs such as “The Way We Were” and “Nobody Does It Better.” His work won several awards including a number of Grammys, Emmys, Oscars, and Golden Globes. He also won a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize.

    A Google search of “athletics in India” reveals the not surprising fact that cricket is the most popular sport in the country. Chess, hockey, soccer, and tennis are also widespread. On Wikipedia’s “Sports in India” page, one must scroll past 26 other pastimes before arriving at baseball. Curiosity is naturally piqued by the knowledge that Mirra Bank’s new documentary film, “The Only Real Game,” is not only about baseball in India, but about the sport’s popularity in Manipur, a remote, isolated state on the Burmese border that is virtually closed to foreigners.

    The Artists Alliance of East Hampton is presenting work by approximately 40 of its members at Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend. The exhibition will include paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, and mixed media works.

    The alliance was founded in honor of Jimmy Ernst, the abstract painter who lived in East Hampton from 1969 until his death in 1984. A reception with live music and refreshments will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Friday, noon to 6 p.m., Saturday, noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.

    “All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert,” a documentary directed by Vivian Ducat, won the 2013 Brown Harris Stevens Audience Award at the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, which was held at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor earlier this month. The film is the story of a self-taught African-American artist who spent seven years on a chain gang in a Georgia prison, where he learned how to tool and dye brightly colored leather canvases.

    St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton will present a concert of festive songs and arias on Saturday at 4 p.m. in Hoie Hall. Guest artists are Sofia Dimitrova, a soprano soloist, and Daria Rabotkina and William McNally, award-winning classical pianists.

    The program will include works by Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Strauss, and Handel, among others. Admission is $20, free for those under 18.

    This year has been a busy one for Joan Semmel. She had a solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the spring, solo shows at both Alexander Gray Associates, her New York dealer, and Art Basel, exhibited at Frieze New York, and now has two paintings at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, in the group exhibition “Sie. Selbst. Nackt.” The title, which translates as “She. Herself. Naked,” could be applied to much of Ms. Semmel’s career as a painter.