Arts

A venerable groundbreaking gallery closes in New York and new shows everywhere

Hamptons Doc Fest is screening "Acasa, My Home," Elizabeth Lo will discuss her film "Stray" with Sag Harbor Cinema, and a gardening talk at H.A.H.

"Youth v Gov" follows a lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 young people ages 13 to 24 that contends the government's actions that cause climate change violated their constitutional rights and failed to protect public trust resources.

This year's Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition reads as a reflection of the year that has passed, sometimes quite literally but also subtly, as familiar artists tried new things or turned inward in a time of distance and quiet. Antwaun Sargent, this year's awards juror, parsed through some 420 entrants hung on almost every available wall space in and around the three main museum galleries on Friday.

In one of the East End art world's most consistent and democratic traditions, Guild Hall will hold its 83rd Artist Members Exhibition beginning Saturday.

Sag Cinema's filmmaker talks continue, HIFF opens submissions process, a talk about women's migration, and workshops at Watermill Center

Parrish Pairings bring a new twist and influential voices to the discussion table, and more.

Hosted and produced by Judy D'Mello and Jeremy Warshaw and focused on loneliness, the podcast "Is Anybody Out There?" is of particular use during this time of human distancing.

Art, race, and politics, and an award-winning novel about restitution and faith are the subjects of two upcoming presentations from Guild Hall.

The acclaimed American sculptor Mel Kendrick has spent most of the last 40 years taking things apart and putting them back together.

Jackson Gay will share her new project, “Endless Loop of Gratitude,” during a virtual presentation by Guild Hall on Friday. Guild Hall has also opened its application process for community artists in residence, strictly for artists who live in the 119 ZIP codes.

Outlaw country on film, the intricacies of East meeting West in textile design, and more

Called "No Fillings for a Copper Plate," Ryan Kitson's installation at the Arts Center at Duck Creek consists of several copper plates riddled with multiple holes made by bullets entering and exiting through either side.

South Fork dealers have opened new shows in New York City, exhibitions open at Skarstedt here and in the city, new virtual offerings, and more.

After spending more than 25 years offering art lovers a chance to purchase a piece of East End history, Terry Wallace, the owner of the Wallace Gallery of American Art in East Hampton, will close up shop on Monday.

At The Church in Sag Harbor, where Eric Fischl and April Gornik have transformed an old church into a multidisciplinary arts space with residencies, two projects have been progressing this month.

A new remote In Process at Watermill Center, the Plain Sight Project comes to the Parrish, staff changes at Guild Hall, and a talk about birds in honor of Peter Matthiessen.

Clintel Steed is one of more than 2,000 artists who have pushed back on the extended delay of the museum show "Philip Guston Now." His new series "Behind the Hood," on view at the Mark Borghi gallery in Sag Harbor, presents his own take on the subject matter.

Three photographers at Drawing Room, copper plates in the woods, Ross Bleckner at Van de Weghe, and more

Reggie D. White turned to lesser-known speeches and interviews and writings of 20 people ranging from James Baldwin to Stokely Carmichael to Angela Davis as inspiration for "In Case You Hadn't Heard: A Conversation Between America's Past and Its Promise." It will have its world premiere via Bay Street and Zoom on Monday.

Kelly Taxter, a curator of contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, has been named the director of the Parrish Art Museum, the museum announced last week.

The working process of Claire Watson, from her early 1990s transformations of ordinary tobacco pipes into extraordinary objects to her recent constructions assembled from leather pattern parts, thread, and wood veneer, can be seen as a form of alchemy, one that often emerges from her personal history and her research.     

A discussion of the future of museums and their relevancy and honors for Bay Street Theater

Hamptons Film honors Black History Month with a talk from its October festival on "With Drawn Arms." Other new releases are available to stream through its website.

Connie Fox goes solo at the Hecksher, six speak on "East End Collected 6," love-themed exhibitions, and more

Jade Ford found love and a new career path as a traveling tailor and an up-cycled fashion designer in East Hampton after moving here from Brooklyn five years ago.

An introduction to the Bel Canto Boot Camp, prepared specially for Guild Hall, will take place online Thursday at 6 p.m. and be followed, on four consecutive Sundays starting this week, by sessions organized around specific themes.     

Michi Itami has worked in a variety of mediums -- printmaking, ceramics, painting, digital photo collages -- but as an artist and teacher, her attitude is consistent: “If you just listen to what they say you have to do, you don’t get anywhere. If you step outside of the box, if you just think creatively, there’s so much you can do.”     

It's not too late to sign up for Bay Street Theater's wine tasting benefit in partnership with Wolffer Estate Vineyard on Feb. 24. The deadline has been extended to Wednesday.

At times, one can enter Keyes Art in Sag Harbor and see a pared-down exhibition, similar to any other buttoned-up gallery in the region. In all the best ways, this is not one of those times.