Arts

The Drawing Room Gallery in East Hampton has a wonderfully colorful group show in its front galleries, but a tiny show of photographs by Charles Jones emits a magnetic pull toward the back gallery.

A Hamptons Theatre Company production of David Ives’s play “Venus in Fur,” which opens next Thursday, could hardly be timelier.

There will be no post-holiday letdown at Guild Hall thanks to a slate of January programs ranging from the risk-taking theater of the JDT Lab to The Met: Live in HD to film screenings hosted by Carl Bernstein and Isabella Rossellini.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present four Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas, each with a guest focusing on the music of a particular American city.

As in years past, Nancy Atlas and her band will return to Bay Street Theater with six evenings of rock ’n’ roll starting Saturday with Danny Kean.

Michael Halsband was barely a year out of art school when an assignment to photograph Keith Richards for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine led to an invitation from Mick Jagger to photograph the Rolling Stones’ 1981 North American “Tattoo You” tour.

There are plenty of options to ring in the New Year on the South Fork, and if music is your thing, these venues have got you covered.

The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton has invited painters, mixed-media artists, photographers, and sculptors to submit work for “Flow,” an exhibition that will be on view there from Jan. 26 through Feb. 11. “Dan Flavin, to Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Master Potters,” the first exhibition to bring together Flavin’s work with that of the two renowned European ceramicists, is on view at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland, through Feb. 4.

The Sag Harbor Partnership will present a screening of “The Tree Prophet,” a film by Christian Scheider and Tucker Marder, on Saturday in Sag Harbor.

The summer season at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will feature three plays steeped in political issues that are timely as well as timeless.

One year after forming Caplan Rose, a travel company that organizes private tours of gardens and cultural destinations in rural England, Katharine Battle and Emily Goldstein, friends and Sag Harbor residents, have announced three 2018 excursions, the first of which will focus on gardens and art in the West of England from April 29 through May 4.

Four grants totaling $125,000 will support Guild Hall's educational programming and the digitization and interpretation of its permanent collection.

“State of Grace,” an invitational exhibition organized by East End Arts of Riverhead, is on view at the Southampton Cultural Center through Feb. 19. Subtitled “A Photographic Study of Grace as a Response to Chaos,” the show includes work by Cait McCarthy, Griffin Shapiro, Lena Nicholson, Sarah Cebulski, and Thais Aquino.

The Hamptons International Film Festival and Guild Hall are collaborating on a series of film screenings, beginning on Saturday nights this month.

Ustad Shafaat Khan and his fusion group East Meets West will appear at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m.

“The Opera House,” Susan Froemke’s 2017 documentary about the history of the Metropolitan Opera won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival.

A screening of the National Theatre Live’s staging of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies,” will take place at Guild Hall Friday night at 7.

An evening of original music by Inda Eaton, Gene Casey, Job Potter, Nancy Remkus, Mariann Megna, and Fred Raimondo, will take place on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse.

An evening of Afro-Cuban jazz with Oscar Feldman, an Argentinean whose skills on alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones are applied to a wide range of Pan-American musical references, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center.

There is no official theme to the grouping of paintings by Perry Burns, Cara Enteles, and Anne Raymond at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor, but the bright cheery colors and loosely abstract and floral themes are welcoming and cheerful.

New Watermill Residents; Lesley Obrock at the Golden Eagle; Charles Jones at the Drawing Room; Tony Oursler at Rental

Liz Garbus and her father, Martin Garbus, discussed her film “Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech” during the Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival gala.

Guild Hall shook up traditional Giving Tuesday appeals by staging a 12-hour old style telethon with interviews, art projects, wine and beer tastings, and a dancing banana.

“L’Chaim . . . to Life: Quilts by May Kelman,” which will open on Sunday at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, is a singular exhibition.

South Fork galleries making the pilgrimage to Miami this year are Mark Borghi Fine Art, Eric Firestone, Todd Merrill Studio, Lawrence Fine Art, Chase Edwards Contemporary, Halsey Mckay, Harper’s Books, and Rental Gallery.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons was conducted on Sunday by Mark Mangini, its music director, in “Dances, Carols, and Lullabies,” a program with a varied, non-traditional mix of music having to do with Christmas and Hanukkah.

An ability to visualize in space, which he said came from his dyslexia, is what Bob Schwarz credits for his 40-year career as a television director of shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show," "Sesame Street," and "As the World Turns."

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present “Home for Christmas,” its annual free candlelight concert, on Saturday at 5 p.m.

The Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard Piano Duo will perform free holiday sing-along concerts on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library and on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall.

St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton will host three programs of dramatic readings of holiday stories offset by interludes of seasonal music tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2.