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Peggy Guggenheim is shown in her art-filled apartment and in an interview later in life in a film devoted to the restoration of Jackson Pollock’s “Alchemy,” below, being shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. Guggenheim Plots The Transformation of Pollock's ‘Alchemy’

“Visionaries,” the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, which opened on Saturday, celebrates the avant-garde instincts and connoisseurship of the people who shaped the museum’s collection. Although it contains precious few American artists, that hasn’t stopped its curators from celebrating one American painting in particular, Jackson Pollock’s “Al­chemy.”

Feb 16, 2017
A photograph from Christa Maiwald's "Landscape Cakes" series will be shown at Malia Mills as part of a new Folioeast show. The Art Scene: 02.16.17

The Southampton Artists Association Winter Art Show will take place from today through Feb. 26 at the Southampton Cultural Center. A reception is set for Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. The Winter Salon Series at Malia Mills, a pop-up gallery in the clothing purveyor’s Main Street, East Hampton, space, will open a new group exhibition with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Harper’s Apartment, the Manhattan branch of East Hampton’s Harper’s Books, will open “Parallel Lines,” a show of 20 years of work by Don Christensen, with a reception for the artist today from 6 to 8 p.m.

Feb 16, 2017
The film "Hidden Figures, stars Taraji P. Henson, above left, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae as mathematicians and engineers at NASA in the 1960s. Jenno Topping, a Sagaponack native, is nominated for a Best Picture Oscar for her work as a producer of the film. Best Picture Nomination for Topping and ‘Hidden Figures’

Jenno Topping’s commitment to mentor and support women in film has led to one of her most noteworthy and lauded achievements to date: helping to bring “Hidden Figures” to the screen.

Feb 16, 2017
Guild Hall Will Screen 'Saint Joan’ This Weekend

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre Live production from London’s Donmar Warehouse of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play “Saint Joan” on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Feb 16, 2017
Jackson Pollock’s “No. 29,” painted on glass, was featured in two talks at a recent symposium in Manhattan on Abstract Expressionism. ‘Pollock’s Paper Trail’ a Highlight of Recent NYC Ab-Ex Symposium

A recent symposium in Manhattan brought together scholars from around the country and across the Atlantic to study “Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper.” One of the more interesting and revealing presentations came from Helen Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, which was a co-presenter of the program with the Clyfford Still Museum and Stony Brook University.

Feb 9, 2017
The Chick Peas: A Cappella in Montauk

The Chickpeas, an East End all-female vocal ensemble, will perform a free concert at the Montauk Community Church Coffeehouse tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Feb 9, 2017
Vampy Lingerie

Karyn Mannix Contemporary and the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present the “12th Annual Love and Passion: The Dirty Dozen Art Show” tomorrow through Sunday at the gallery, with a wine reception to be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Feb 9, 2017
At Watermill Center

In Process @ the Watermill Center will provide an opportunity for engagement with Cleek Schrey and Gillian Walsh, two of the center’s artists in residence, on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Feb 9, 2017
Iris Smyles Evening of 'Love and Horror' Readings to Toast V-Day

Iris Smyles, the literary editor of The Star’s East magazine, will host “An Evening of Love and Other Horrors” to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Malia Mills shop on Main Street in East Hampton. Starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the event will feature readings by Patricia Marx, a humorist and staff writer at The New Yorker, Frederic Tuten, whose books include “Tintin in the New World,” and Ms. Smyles herself.

Feb 9, 2017
'Underwater Robots,' Documentary on Immigrant Plight, at Parrish Friday

“Underwater Dreams,” a 2014 documentary about the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants who create a robot from Home Depot products, will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Feb 9, 2017
One Billion Rising Addresses Violence Against Women

The local action of the 2017 campaign of One Billion Rising, a mass international demonstration launched five years ago to end violence against women, will be presented in Guild Hall’s JDTLab series on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Feb 9, 2017
Films at Bay Street

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and the Hamptons International Film Festival will present the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film in two programs on Saturday at Bay Street, two weeks before the Oscar telecast.

Feb 9, 2017
Chris Bauer Sag Harbor's Chris Bauer Stars in New Mamet Play

Chris Bauer, an actor from Sag Harbor, is co-starring with Lawrence Gillard Jr., Jordan Lage, and Rebecca Pidgeon in “The Penitent,” a new play by David Mamet that premiered yesterday at the Atlantic Theater Company in Manhattan and will run through March 19.

Feb 9, 2017
M.A., 13, is one of the young women whose stories figure prominently in “I Am Jane Doe.” Sagaponack Producer's New Doc in Theaters This Week

“I Am Jane Doe,” a documentary about sex trafficking of under-age girls on Backpage.com, directed by Mary Mazzio and co-produced by Ms. Mazzio and Alec Sokolow, a screenwriter who lives in Sagaponack, will premiere tomorrow in Manhattan and in five other cities.

Feb 9, 2017
The Art Scene: 02.09.17

ArtUnprimed, the pop-up gallery that occupies the Addo Women’s Clothing Collective on Sag Harbor’s Main Street, will open “Women,” its second exhibition, with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The East End Winter Salon, an artists’ collaborative, will present its first exhibition, “What We Love About the East End,” from Saturday through April 2 at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton.

Feb 9, 2017
Baldwin and Botsford in ‘Love Letters’

“Love Letters,” the A.R. Gurney play in which two characters, Melissa and Andrew, sit side by side reading letters, notes, and cards that span nearly 50 years of their separated lives, will be performed by Andrew Botsford and Jane Baldwin on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Southampton Inn.

Feb 9, 2017
Music at the Masonic Lodge

The Wamponamon Masonic Lodge No. 437, which was established in Sag Harbor in 1858, has been off limits to nonmembers for as long as anyone can remember, save for a single open house last June when the public was invited to see the painted Masonic symbols and celestial imagery on the inner sanctum’s walls and the domed ceiling by John Capello, an artist and member of the Masonic Brotherhood.

Feb 9, 2017
Charles Mingus

The Southampton Arts Center will present “Beneath the Underdog: The Music of Charles Mingus” on Saturday at 7 p.m. Selections from Mr. Mingus’s music will be performed by Claes Brondal on drums, Bob Hovey on trombone, Santi Debriano on bass, Eric Schugren on saxophone, and Bill Smith on piano.

Feb 9, 2017
Ronstadt’s Repertoire

The Montauk Library will present “Yvette Sings Ronstadt: Rock and Roll, Country, Big Band, and Mexico,” a free concert by Yvette Malavet-Blum, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

Feb 9, 2017
Zach Zunis, performing on guitar with Janiva Magness, is featured on the singer’s latest album, “Love Wins Again,” which has been nominated for a Grammy Award. A Grammy Proves Elusive for an East Hampton Guitarist

The South Fork is no stranger to world-class musicians and recording artists, be they summer visitors, second-home owners, or year-round residents. One in the latter category may not be a household name, but Zach Zunis will be watching the 59th annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday with particular interest.

Feb 9, 2017
‘Nabucco’ at Guild Hall

The Met: Live in HD will present an encore screening of Verdi’s “Nabucco,” with Placido Domingo in the title role, at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Feb 1, 2017
A Jinny Blom garden Madoo in Manhattan Features an English Rose

“Madoo in Manhattan: The Fourth Annual Robert Dash Garden Design Lecture” will take place Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan. The guest speaker will be Jinny Blom, an award-winning British garden designer, whose subject will be “Changing Nature: Towards a New Landscape.”

Feb 1, 2017
Joseph Marshall and Tamara Salkin in “The Money Shot” at the Southampton Cultural Center. LaBute's 'Money Shot': People at Their Worst

Two decades ago, Neil LaBute emerged on the scene with “In the Company of Men,” a movie taken from his earlier play, with a plot featuring the callous seduction of a deaf woman. The film received a number of awards and distinctions, and it launched him as an enfant terrible who went out of his way to say the heretofore unsayable.

Feb 1, 2017
Beatles Tributes

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold tribute concerts at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.

Feb 1, 2017
Salty Chanteys

The Montauk Library will present “Salty Songs and Sailor Slang,” a program of authentic sea chanteys and nautical ballads performed by Scuttlebutt Stu and Blood Red Robin, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

Feb 1, 2017
Dawn Irrgang is one of the people the East Hampton Library has scanning decades of archival material from Guild Hall’s files on artists. 100 Years of Art History at Your Fingertips

Libraries used to be repositories of books and collections that were held close, in some cases available only to preapproved researchers by appointment. The East Hampton Library is embracing a more contemporary model, wherein its collection is accessible to researchers in their homes and offices.

Feb 1, 2017
The Art Scene: 02.02.17

The Art Gallery at the Quogue Library is presenting “50 Shades of White,” a juried photography show that celebrates the beauty of white in all its permutations. On view through Feb. 26, the photographs, by 23 East End photographers, will be judged by Neil Watson, director of the Long Island Museum and formerly director of the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County. “Supernature,” an exhibition of paintings by Jeff Muhs, will open today at the Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea and continue through Feb. 25. A reception will be held tonight from 6 to 8.

Feb 1, 2017
Cultural Grants

A number of South Fork cultural and arts organizations are among 1,230 recipients of some $41 million in state support for visual, performing, literary, and media arts, according to an announcement from Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor.

Feb 1, 2017
A Number of HIFF Films Honored for Oscars

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced that films presented during the 2016 festival have received 45 Oscar nominations.

Feb 1, 2017
LongHouse Benefit

The 2017 LongHouse Winter Benefit will take place Feb. 15 in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. The architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who designed the atrium, will be the evening’s honorees.

Feb 1, 2017