Arts

The Southampton Arts Center and the Jam Session will kick off the 2018 season with “Keeping Live Jazz Alive,” a concert to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America’s Keyed Up! program, on Saturday.

The Bridgehampton Museum will present a concert by the Poetica Ensemble on Saturday afternoon at 3 at its archives building.

Karen Mannix Contemporary's “Love and Passion” exhibition at Markel; the Drawing Room Gallery shows sculpture, painting, drawing, photographs, and prints, Ladd Bros on Shields at Parrish

For hardy theatergoers and others seeking a novel way to spend a winter afternoon, the Neo-Political Cowgirls will present their current production “Zima!” on Saturday at Montauk County Park.

Welcome to the epic emotional universe of the sisters Magrath, also known as Beth Henley’s 1978 kitchen sink tragicomedy, “Crimes of the Heart,” playing at Center Stage Theatre at the Southampton Cultural Center through Sunday.

"Flow" group show at White Room Gallery; Three artists, including students from the Hayground School, will be part of Watermill Center's "In Process" event; this month’s featured artist at the Golden Eagle is Kirsten Benfield.

This weekend at Guild Hall, the screen will be alive with opera and classic and international films.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is bringing back last year’s Story Circle and People’s State of the Union tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Three films fostered at the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab are being screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week and next.

What a perfect home Robert Harms’s recent paintings have found at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a new All Star Comedy Show tomorrow and Nancy Atlas's Fireside Sessions concert on Saturday is sold out.

The Hampton Theatre Company, coming off one of its greatest successes with this fall’s production of “Clever Little Lies,” now takes on edgier and more challenging material with “Venus in Fur,” which opened last Thursday in Quogue.

Guild Hall’s JDT Lab will veer into seldom-charted territory with “Andrew and Andrew Make a Deal With the Devil: Southern Gothic Songs and Stories” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

A documentary about Elizabeth Murray at the Parrish and exhibitions by Henry Glavin and David Kennedy Cutler at Halsey McKay

Cracked Actor, musicians who come together every so often to pay tribute to a departed rock legend, will take on Lou Reed and his work with the Velvet Underground on Saturday at the Stephen Talkhouse.

Of the approximately 60 exhibitors in this year’s Outsider Art Fair, which will open at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea next Thursday, two, Norman Brosterman and Mark Wilson, are from East Hampton.

An Oscar-winning epic, a teenage odyssey, and a series of power struggles will play out on screen during this year’s East Hampton Library Winter Film Festival, beginning Sunday.

It is not easy to warm up a typical white box gallery space, let alone make it cozy and fuzzy, but that is what the show “Woven” has done to the Rental Gallery in East Hampton.

Drawing botanicals at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons and “ColorPop,” a group show, at Folioeast

A production of “Crimes of the Heart” will be presented at Southampton Cultural Center beginning Friday.

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.