The Art Dealers Association of America will have an early jump on next week’s Armory Show and satellite fairs when it opens The Art Show today at the Park Avenue Armory. This year, two galleries are featuring South Fork artists in solo shows at their booths.
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Bits and Pieces: 02.27.20Feb 27, 2020
The Met's "Agrippina" is the next live-streamed opera at Guild Hall, Soul comes to Sag, "Young Ahmed" is this week's HamptonsFilm showing, and more
Opinion: Stick + Stone and Grain + BonesThe “Community Art Exhibition” at Grain Surfboards, hosted by the design group Stick + Stone, boasts an extended list of contributors, many from the surf and artist community here.
She Died, but Her Story LivesThe death of a 14-year-old black girl in a June 1969 police-involved shooting in Omaha ignited three days of intense unrest there. Decades later, the biographic play “Vivian’s Music, 1969” focuses not on the death of Vivian Strong, but on her life.
Surveillance, Privacy, and Margia KramerThe 1979 suicide of Jean Seberg has been an inspiration to Margia Kramer and others after her series of art projects based on Seberg's F.B.I. surveillance files.
The Art Scene: 02.27.20Feb 27, 2020
Tripoli finds a home, Fenske returns to Grenning, Wednesday Group at Ashawagh, and more art news
Three Exceptional GardensThe Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack will offer a winter lecture series in March featuring three distinguished horticulture professionals whose talks will transport landscape enthusiasts to unique New York State gardens.
Water Works in Wondrous Ways“Water/Ways,” a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, will open at the Clinton Academy Museum in East Hampton on Saturday and remain on view through April 11.
Woolf Howls Again on BroadwayFeb 27, 2020
Edward Albee’s seminal and trenchant 1962 drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will return to Broadway in previews beginning on Tuesday, with an opening date of April 9 at the Booth Theater.
Bits and Pieces: 02.20.20Feb 20, 2020
Santana Tribute
Stone Flower, a Santana tribute band, will perform the music of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artists on Saturday at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. “Stone Flower” was a cut on Santana’s “Caravanserai” album, which marked a pivotal point in the band’s evolution from Latin rock/blues to the Afro-Cuban sounds that define it today.
Lifetimes of AchievementThis year, Guild Hall will honor Salman Rushdie, Dorothea Rockburne, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Ted Hartley at its Academy of the Arts annual lifetime achievement awards on March 3.
Opinion: The Other HamptonsWho doesn’t love a good corridor exhibition? If you’re not sure how to answer that, my suggestion is to go visit Guild Hall and take a stroll through its education corridor while “Carly Haffner: In the Woods” is still on view through this weekend.
Return of a Grammy Winner to Sag HarborThe Grammy-Award winning trumpeter Randy Brecker, will be at Ed's Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor on Feb. 27.
The Art Scene: 02.20.20Feb 20, 2020
Gornik in New York, Black History Month at RJD, Giard in Soho, and more
When Truth Is as Funny as FictionThe popular series “Impractical Jokers” is the basis for a feature-length movie directed by Southampton’s Chris Henchy and opening on Friday.
A Love Story Fresh From Belfast“Ordinary Love,” just released and starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville, will be shown on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Guild Hall as part of HamptonsFilm’s Now Showing series.
Bits and Pieces: 02.13.20Feb 13, 2020
Motown, storytelling for Valentine's Day, and two Watermill residents share their work in this week's cultural offerings.
Eric Haze Has a 'New York Moment'The arc of Eric Haze’s career in art, graphic design, and fashion began in Elaine de Kooning’s cold-water loft near Union Square when he was 10 years old. Almost 50 years later it has come full circle.
Opinion: Dr. Frankenstein Lives at Halsey McKayThere is a photo on the Halsey McKay gallery’s website that shows the studio of Colby Bird, its current downstairs artist exhibitor, in Coxsackie, N.Y. It’s a small upstate town, 25 miles south of Albany.
Ursula Von Rydingsvard Film to Be Shown at ParrishUrsula Von Rydingsvard came to New York City in 1975, when she was 33. “I feel that is when I was born,” she says in a new documentary by Daniel Traub that will be shown Friday evening at the Parrish Art Museum.
Violin Mastery Leads It OffFeb 13, 2020
The Shelter Island Friends of Music will open its 2020 concert series with a performance by Eric Silberger, an award-winning violinist, on Sunday at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church.
Chatting Up ‘The Mission’On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, HamptonsFilm will screen Roland Joffe’s “The Mission,” from 1986, which received seven Oscar nominations, including a win for cinematography. A conversation with Alec Baldwin will follow.
Fire and Dust, Metal and FolkSkylar Day's sensibilities are at once dusty boots and folk music and the fiery power chords of a heavy metal guitar player in the band Gravitywell.
Mining a Film Find For Pure Gold Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” an "instantaneously recognizable masterpiece,” will have its Long Island premiere on Feb. 16 at Bay Street Theater.
Opinion: A Sculptor Turns Painter and BackHiroyuki Hamada’s paintings reveal an emotive and sometimes even gestural approach that seems at odds with his more considered and restrained sculptures.
The Art Scene: 02.06.20Feb 6, 2020
A film on Clyfford Still at the Parrish, East End artists in New York and abroad, and a call for artists.
A New Orleans Brass BlastThe Real East End Brass Band can be found jamming New Orleans brass band jazz standards, mashing in the sounds of classic rock, ska, reggae, and punk, composing original music, and playing high-energy shows at local breweries, restaurants, festivals, and other venues.
Another Southampton TakeoverA pure experiment has already evolved into a tradition as 10 artists begin their takeover the Southampton Arts Center for two months.