Arts

Portraits music series returns next week, outdoor screenings in Southampton, and a new virtual reading at Guild Hall.

Lindsay Morris’s most recent project, “A Small Taste of Freedom,” which will open Friday at Guild Hall, focuses on the here and now and close to home.

New drive by and walk by outdoor sculpture, SHechet's indoor sculpture at Pace, three solos at MM Fine Art, a new show at Harper's Books, Phillips opens in Southamption, Tripoli Gallery's return, and more

"I know it's weird to talk about a muse, but I'm absolutely convinced the muse is real," Anthony Brandt said on a recent summer afternoon, sitting on his backyard deck in Sag Harbor.

Multiple scenes from Beyoncé's "Black Is King," which was released on July 31, were filmed at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island and in Guild Hall's galleries in East Hampton.

Pace Gallery partners with fellow behemoths, Gagosian and Acquavella, to present 40 works on paper from the late Donald B. Marron's collection, and much more.

Four films about racial inequality and the connection between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and contemporary events will be featured in this year’s Black Film Festival, a presentation of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

The plays are the thing at Guild Hall, both virtually and live, starting Sunday with “The Pack: Short Comedies by Eugene Pack,” three plays featuring exceptional casts that will be available via YouTube Live at 8 p.m.

Hauser & Wirth confirmed the arrival of an international gallery powerhouse on Southampton's Main Street with a striking yet restrained sign out front and the installation of sleek and playful sculptural benches by Louise Bourgeois in the green space behind it.

In person and virtual music offerings and a drag brunch are on offer this week.

“Andromeda’s Sisters,” the Neo-Political Cowgirls’ two-part virtual arts and advocacy program, will kick off Friday evening at 7:30 with a show of monologues written by female-identifying playwrights and performed by notable actors.

A raconteur, writer, and composer of satirical songs, Christopher Mason has been coming to the East End every summer for 35 years, much of it spent at a friend’s house in Sag Harbor.

Although not yet publicly announced, Phillips auction house proclaimed its presence in the Hamptons this week with a demure and obviously temporary sign at the rather showy location of 1 Nugent Street in Southampton Village.

New galleries, new shows, video projections, and more from all over the South Fork.

Although he was scheduled to have a summer exhibition at Guild Hall, Robert Longo came up with a better plan for this year's unique circumstances. It involved his artist friends and giving back to the arts institution.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons has organized a Virtual Evening With Isaac Mizrahi in Sunday. He will be joined by friends such as Bob Balaban, Sandra Bernhard, and more.

Guild Hall continues outdoor programs, a surf movie night livestream, Jazz on the Terrace at the Parrish, and more.

Hiroyuki Hamada was inspired to organize "Three Painters at Duck Creek," an exhibition of works by Elliott Green, Eric Banks, and Sean Sullivan, after showing there himself last summer.

New live programs at Guild Hall, a Zoom lecture and lunch with the historical society, live jazz at the Parrish, and more

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open its galleries for the first time since March on Aug. 7, with three exhibitions of works by and about East End artists drawn in large part from its permanent collection.

East End Photographers and Artists Alliance have new exhibitions along with new gallery shows at Halsey McKay, MM Fine Art, BCK Fine Arts, Chase Edwards, and more.

Beginning on Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek will host a series of talks that highlight and describe the work of the Plain Sight Project, which has been documenting the history of East Hampton's slave-owning past for several years.

On a side street in Montauk just off the Plaza, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann have conjured something different from the galleries setting up in storefronts on the South Fork. Their space, South Etna, is a manifestation of place as much as it is a merger of the independent curatorial approaches they have honed over years of directing their own New York galleries.

Southampton's Rick Friedman is back with the Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, which will launch at noon Thursday on its website and continue through Sunday. It will return again over Labor Day weekend.

This weekend, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival normally would have begun its annual summer concert series, as it has for 36 years. But aside from the heat, this summer is anything but normal. Fans of the series, however, will be able to hear five hourlong performances in the comfort and safety of their home or garden beginning Sunday.

New shows at Pace, Drawing Room, and Eastville, a book signing in Sag and a new gallery for art and design.

Guided by the conviction that artists are the antennae of society, Mr. Kratz, a painter and president of the New York Academy of Art, and Ms. Roach, who is the director of the Flag Art Foundation in New York City, began to solicit artists' thoughts on living and working during quarantine and what life would be like afterward.

When Mark Borghi saw an empty space in Sag Harbor next to Flying Point Surf Boutique was available this spring, he did not hesitate to lease it. It is now the Sag Harbor sister to his Bridgehampton space and the current home to "The Silence Perpetuates."

More drive-in films courtesy of Sag Cinema and a drive-in concert, live onsite programs at the Parrish, more classes at Bay Street, and much more

Hamptons Film Drive-In at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton will screen its last week of movies next week: a remake of "The Parent Trap," the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," and a brand-new SummerDoc, "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."