Arts

Art Groove returns; RJD's annual art show for The Retreat; Walsh on Walsh, women realists at Grenning, and much more

Memorial Day is more than six weeks away, but it’s never too early to secure tickets for some shows and programs. Witness the return of the comedian Paula Poundstone to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on May 25. As of press time, only a handful of seats remain for what is certain to be a sold-out performance.

Film screenings of "Wall Street" and "Free Solo," a "Star Is Born" concert, and a salute to Danny Kaye

A seven-minute film made 30 years ago generated a fascinating and frequently entertaining 75-minute discussion about architecture and the architect-client relationship at the Parrish Art Museum.

“Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation,” a series at the Parrish Art Museum, will present a screening of a satiric short film and a panel discussion about the dynamics of architect-client relationships on Friday.

The Hedges-Edwards Barn, dating from around 1770, was originally located on the west side of Main Street in East Hampton, where the library now stands. E.J. Edwards first moved it around 1910 to his nearby property on Edwards Lane.

The photographs of Renate Aller and Jean-Luc Mylayne reflect an obsessive focus on the poetry and mystery of the natural world. On Sunday, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open solo exhibitions of each artist’s work that complement each other while at the same time highlighting the differences between their approaches to their subject matter.

“Man of La Mancha,” the classic 1965 musical, will open at the Quogue Community Hall today and run through April 7. The production is the first fully staged musical in the 34-year history of the Hampton Theatre Company.

This is a story about the spiritual inhabitants of places where you might expect them — the Rogers Mansion and the Thomas Halsey Homestead, which are part of the Southampton History Museum — and a place you would not: the East Hampton Library.

He may be most beloved as celluloid’s eternal youth in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the 1986 John Hughes film that never ages no matter how dated the references and fashion. Yet the Amagansett part-timer Matthew Broderick has proven himself a flexible and consummate actor in the years since in many featured and walk-on roles in film, theater, and television, including one of his biggest star turns on Broadway and then in the movie version of “The Producers.”

Kenny Schachter has built a career on being the ultimate art world insider/outsider. He oscillates between being a dealer, lecturer, and art market chronicler, a position that has made him a celebrity in some circles, predominantly for his writing for Artnet News from a home base in London.

Barthélémy Toguo, an artist from Cameroon, will take over some of the Parrish's galleries and spaces this year with "The Beauty of Our Voices," this year's Platform exhibition.

Viewing Naama Tsabar’s pieces merely as colorful felt sculptures, shaped and complemented by piano string, would ignore at least 50 percent of the work’s content.

Elissa Mott Derry took a painting she thought was painted by Thomas Moran to the the East Hampton Historical Society's appraisal day. The result was surprising.

A new show of the Pollock-Krasner House's permanent collection will include artworks by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and others.

Bobby Collins, who left a career as an executive at Calvin Klein to pursue a career as a full-time stand-up comedian, will share his comedic observations on Saturday.

Louis Schanker isn’t one of the first to come to mind when thinking of the grand artistic names of the mid-20th century on the South Fork, but perhaps he should be.

“SPF-18,” a coming-of-age story and tribute to teen films of the '80s and '90s, will screen on Sunday at the Southampton Arts Center.

“Evita,” which will begin previews at Bay Street Theater on Tuesday, addresses issues as relevant today as they were in mid-20th-century Argentina.

Saul Steinberg at Drawing Room; group show at R. J. Steele; Alice Hope in D.C.; "Tiny People" at the Shed, and more

Functional art and a preview cocktail party have been added to an old favorite event of the summer season.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series features speakers from a wide range of disciplines, including a poet, a playwright, a composer, and a professor of mathematics and economics.

Will Friedwald, a writer and music critic, will discuss Frank Sinatra with Bill Boggs on Saturday at the East Hampton Library.

On Aug. 8, Zachary Lazar, Sarah Koenig, and Garnette Cadogan will meet at Guild Hall to discuss the American criminal justice system and mass incarceration.

Peter Marino took a few Warhols given to him by the artist into a world class art collection on view beginning Saturday at the Southampton Arts Center.

A celebration of the lives and works of Judith and Gerson Leiber will be held on Saturday afternoon at the Leiber Collection in Springs.

Bruce Willis, Brooke Adams, Michael Nouri, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin are among the stars who will be out this week at Guild Hall.

Caroline Doctorow and her band, the Ballad Makers, will perform tunes from “the American Songbook and other stories” on Saturday.

A Manhattan auctioneer claims he has unearthed six Willem de Kooning works from an abandoned storage locker in New Jersey. David Killen purchased the contents of the unit for $15,000 and says the finds could range in value from $10,000 to $10 million.

The Southampton Historical Museum is presenting a lecture series that looks back to various manifestations in Southampton of the Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.