Arts

The antidote to the social-distancing doldrums may very well be social-dancing lessons, and for that, one needs to look no further than Friday night country line-dancing classes at the Southampton Cultural Center.

The Watermill Center’s spring Community Day, which provides the public an opportunity to experience the center’s grounds as a space to explore, unwind, and find inspiration, will take place in two parts on Saturday.

The music scene, return of classical piano at the Parrish, an intro to acting, and more

The Art Barge and the D’Amico Studio and Archive will reopen this spring, after remaining closed for the 2020 season. The 2021 class and workshop schedule was issued on Friday, and registration is open. Classes include painting, orientation to creativity. Workshops include collage, pastel, and watercolor painting. There are also classes for children.

New shows at Tripoli, Borghi, Ashawagh, White Room, and Grenning, along with a new gallery in Montauk, a talk at Guild Hall, and more

A "42nd Street" musical revival now available for streaming through Guild Hall and lessons in auditioning on camera through Bay Street.

Allen O'Reilly spent more than four decades as an actor and education director before taking on the position of director of education and community outreach at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

New art shows all over the region, a salute to Vito Sisti, the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum reopens, Mary Abbott is the focus for the Pollock-Krasner House's first seasonal exhibition, and more

Alfredo Merat and more at Baron's Cove, Hot Lava and the Groove Kings at the Talkhouse, and upcoming broadcasts of the Jam Session on the radio

Bay Street Theater's plans to build a new theater complex and develop other properties near the Sag Harbor waterfront received mostly harsh critiques from village residents at a public forum on Saturday. 

The Church welcomes new residents, Artists Alliance hangs their shingle at Ashawagh, bereavement at Pollock-Krasner, and more

On Friday, Bay Street Theater, in partnership with the Rock Project, will present “Reflections of ‘Who’s Next," a concert celebration of the 50th anniversary of the album.

Opera at the Beach
"Met Under Moonlight," presented by Guild Hall and HamptonsFilm, will resume on Saturday at 8 p.m. with a screening of the Metropolitan Opera's 2019 production of "Porgy and Bess," at Main Beach in East Hampton.

"Down and Dirty" features Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne and "High Noon" is a show of work by Elizabeth Hazan.

For American artists whose papers don't naturally relate to a specific site, like a historic house or associated academic setting, the chief repository is the Archives of American Art. In January, it accepted the papers of Howard Kanovitz, an artist who lived and worked all over the South Fork during his career and died in 2009.

Telly and Inda at the Talkhouse, Alfredo Merat and Marcello Pimenta at Baron's Cove, and The Jam Session

“Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020,” an exhibition of work by 40 artists who have expanded the language of abstraction, often through important innovations, will open Sunday at the Parrish Art Museum.

Guild Hall will open two new shows for spring of work by Enoc Perez and Karin Waisman, while offering a sound experience for an East Hampton Village walk by Viv Corringham, a sound artist.

In Process at the Watermill Center will resume on Saturday with virtual presentations by Candace Hill, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, and Lucie Vitkova.

Two opportunities to witness the fruits of Lonnie Holley's work of the past year are here, with exhibitions opening at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Saturday and the South Etna Montauk Foundation on May 1.

New shows at Grenning Gallery and Roman Fine Art in Sag Harbor

Student Body at Talkhouse, Michael LeClerc and Bosco Michne at Baron's Cove, the Jam Session is back, and more

There's a lot to love in David Kennedy Cutler's show "Shadow Metier" at Halsey McKay Gallery, but even more to ponder.

The Southampton Arts Center will join other East End cultural venues celebrating Earth Day with its next exhibition, “EARTH: Artists as Activists,” which will open Saturday.

Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough brought a lot of heat to New York Fashion Week with a video of their collection for Proenza Schouler filmed at the Parrish Art Museum on the coldest weekend of the year.

The Church is offering tours of its new facility, Johnson at Storm King, and new shows at Tripoli, Harper's, Ashawagh, and more

Hamptons Doc Fest is celebrating Earth Day with four days of programming that will include live and virtual screenings of documentary films on environmental themes.

Guild Hall brings live theater back with an intimate twist, Oscar noms to be screened at Sag Cinema, this week's live music offerings, and more

LongHouse Reserve, the 16-acre sculpture park and garden in East Hampton, opens its doors to the public again on Saturday, with thousands of daffodils and new sculptures and plantings.

Renee Cox left fashion photography three decades ago to make artwork that deconstructs stereotypes and challenges preconceived ideas about gender and race. "My goal has often been to produce art that will take people out of their comfort zone and produce healthy discourses," she said.