Arts

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Guild Hall will present plays from its own artist in residence and from London's West End, a gardening lecture on perennials, and more

Just over a century after the Sag Harbor Cinema, then the Elite Theatre, emerged from lockdown during the 1918 influenza epidemic, and less than five years since fire all but destroyed it, the cinema will open its doors again Friday.

More than one year and an aborted midsummer restart later, live music will return to the Stephen Talkhouse Friday with a solo performance by Nancy Atlas at 8 p.m. The venue will host a trivia contest Thursdays beginning this week, and Josh Brussell will play solo sets this Saturday night at 7 and 9.

In-person screenings of "Black Art: In the Absence of Light" at the Parrish Art Museum, a show at Mark Borghi Gallery, John Torreano at Keyes Gallery, and more

The theater provided a first glimpse of architectural renderings of the new complex it will build in Sag Harbor, and announced that Friends of Bay Street is seeking to purchase and tear down 2 Main Street, an adjacent building that is home to the K-Pasa restaurant and the Espresso Da Asporto and the Yummylicious! food shops. 

Dava Sobel will share a virtual Guild Hall stage with actors for readings of selected poems that pay tribute to space and everything that inhabits it in partnership with the Hamptons Observatory.

A church concert of Baroque music on original string instruments and a vocal workshop at Bay Street

Instead of indoor screenings or simulcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions, Guild Hall and HamptonsFilm will show recordings of previous performances at Main Beach this spring.

A disagreement about safety has led to a standoff between the Bay Street Theater, which is seeking to hold its summer season in a tent in Steinbeck Park, and the Sag Harbor Village Board, which has thus far nixed the plan, citing concerns about noise, crowding, traffic flow, and other quality-of-life issues.

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's evergreen popularity is on evidence this spring as an important show of Pollock's murals continues at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Krasner's collages are on view at Kasmin Gallery.

The Parrish screens a film on Gerhard Richter, Jeremy Dennis discusses "On This Site," and more

David Kennedy Cutler returns to Halsey McKay, the Parrish continues its outdoor tours, and Pace offers a Lichtenstein show in Palm Beach

Directed by Bob Balaban, “Squeaky” stars Harris Yulin in the title role. When he brought the play to Guild Hall, the play's writer Josh Cohen said, “I think Harris Yulin is made to order. I think he IS my father.”

On Monday, the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, under the direction of Jose Sebastian, a summer resident of East Hampton, will launch a series of dances on film choreographed and performed by dancers in quarantine "bubbles."

A screening of the play "War Horse," history told through opera, a talk on Japanese costume, and more

Valerie diLorenzo has starred in theater, cabaret, and musical revues, but “there’s nothing like being in a show,” she said. “Especially in summer stock or regional theater or doing a tour, when you’re immersed in that world, in that character’s life, and the people you’re with are your family."

The tale of the downfall of the Knoedler Gallery after dealing Abstract Expressionist paintings made in Queens by a convincing forger for more than a decade is the subject of a Netflix documentary called "Made You Look," directed by Barry Avrich, and a scripted series now in development.

Concerts, film screenings, lectures, and more are all part of the cultural offerings this week.

Master Gardeners Spring Gardening School will be held virtually this year for the first time in its 30-year history. The day-long program from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Doug Tallamy.

An online program designed to highlight the power of poetry to influence music, dance, and video art will launch the spring season of Reflections next Thursday.

The spring auction season is offering some new opportunities to see art that would not normally be in the mix out here. This week, it is photographs in the Phillips auction house's spring sale on view in its Southampton galleries.

Frank Wimberley goes solo in Chelsea and another group artist talk at the Southampton Arts Center

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.