The Hamptons and the North Fork offer some exciting options for things to do this weekend. It's an especially vibrant one with an event-packed museum anniversary celebration, live music, a hurricane benefit, an artist family discussion and more. Read on for our picks of event highlights taking place Veterans Day Weekend on the East End through November 12, 2017.
Five and Forward: 5th Anniversary at The Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum celebrates the 5th Anniversary at its Water Mill location. It would be easy to spend your entire weekend at the Parrish with special events taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and all the museum's permanent gallery's reinstalled and unveiled for the first time. "Five and Forward" is made up of six exhibitions installed in seven galleries featuring nearly 100 artworks and bound together with a single theme. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 10, 2017, and remains on view through October 31, 2018. Click here for details. Events to celebrate the museum's anniversary in Water Mill take place as follows...
On Friday, a Discussion on "The Impact of Architecture" with Architectural Record Editor in Chief Cathleen McGuigan and Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan takes place at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12; free for members, children and students.
On Saturday, there's one event by day and another by night. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., a Museum Members Reception and Artist Gallery Talks will unfold. be held. The tour leads off with an overview by Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan. Leading tours are East End artists Suzanne Anker, Sydney Albertini, Max Blagg, Michael Combs, Eric Dever, Bill Komoski, Bastienne Schmidt and Ned Smyth, Admission is free for members. Not a member? It's easy to join at the door or online before heading to the museum. Click here for details.
Return to the museum in the evening for an Anniversary Cocktail Party from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets start at $200 or $150 for museum members. One of the evening highlights is a reprise of the live performance of Watercolors by Nell Shaw Cohen performed by the Quintet of the Americas. The musical piece was composed for the Parrish's grand opening in 2012 and is inspired by Charles Burchfield's painting Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring), 1950, which will be on view. Signature cocktails, passed hors d'oeuvres, an "anniversary-inspired" dessert and live harp music are also part of the fun.
On Sunday, a free Community Day takes place on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Activities include a community based art project, artist-led workshops for children, gallery tours, a scavenger hunt, performances, refreshments, book signings and more. Admission is free.
Click here for event details.
In Process @ The Watermill Center
The Watermill Center presents "In Process" with Carlos Bunga, Marianna Kavallieratos and Dom Bouffard on Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Watermill Artists-in-Residence Carlos Bunga, Marianna Kavallieratos and Dom Bouffard will present their art in progress. Carlos Bunga explores the crossover between painting and sculpture through large site-specific installations on issues such as immigration and socio-economic disparity. Marianna Kavallieratos is a choreographer and dancer who collaborated in founding The Watermill Center. Dom Bouffard is a musician and composer who has worked in the fields of film, radio, TV and fashion and has toured internationally with alt-rock bands and other artists.
Admission is free with a $10 suggested donation. Reservations are required.
Click here for event details.
.
Courtesy of The Watermill Center.
.
Panel Discussion with Artist Siblings Nico Yektai and Darius Yektai at Guild Hall
A Panel Discussion with exhibiting artists Nico Yektai and Darius Yektai takes place on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 3 p.m. at Guild Hall.
Guild Hall presents a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition "YEKTAI," on view through December 31, 2017. The exhibition traces the artistic legacy of Manoucher Yektai and his two sons: painter/sculptor Darius and furniture maker/sculptor Nico. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator and Guild Hall Museum / Chief Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield and will explore the influences of Manoucher Yetkai's art and his search for Modernism through a life spent in Iran, France and the United States.
Admission is free. Registration is strongly encouraged. Guild Hall is located at 158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937. www.guildhall.org.
Click here for event details.
.
"Three Graces: After Rubens" by Darius Yektai, 2013-16. Oil, gouache, and pencil on linen, canvas and wood, 108 x 84 inches. Photo by Gary Mamay. Courtesy of Guild Hall.
.
"Love Isabela: A Puerto Rico Fundraiser"
Tripoli Gallery hosts a fundraising art exhibition "Love Isabela" with an Opening Reception on Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 4 to 7 p.m.
The fundraiser highlight's Félix Bonilla Gerena and his hometown, Isabela, PR. Displayed with Bonilla’s paintings, "Love Isabela" features a private auction fundraiser to benefit residents of Isabela, PR, with donated works of art from other notable artists. A partial list includes Alice Aycock, Pipi Deer, Judith Hudson, Yung Jake, John Messinger, Lola Schnabel, Dalton Portella and others. One hundred percent of donated artworks sold through the private auction go directly to the victims of Hurricane Maria in Isabela, Puerto Rico, where Bonilla lives and works. Additional silent auction items will also be available as will opportunities to donate.
The exhibition remains on view through November 19, 2017.
Tripoli Gallery is located at 30A Jobs Lane Southampton, NY 11968. www.tripoligallery.com.
Click here for event details.
“Clever Little Lies” Continues in Quogue
The Hampton Theatre Company presents “Clever Little Lies” through November 12, 2017.
Performances take place on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
“Clever Little Lies”—an adult comedy by Joe DiPietro about love and marriage, in and outside the bonds of matrimony—will be the first play of the Hampton Theatre Company’s 2017-2018 season. Directed by Andrew Botsford, “Clever Little Lies” features four Hampton Theatre Company veterans—Ed Brennan, Carolann DiPirro, Terrance Fiore, and Diana Marbury.
Sensing from her husband that something is wrong in their son’s marriage, Alice invites the young couple over for a cocktails and cheesecake interrogation. As one set of lies breaks down, Alice offers an object lesson by creating a new web of fanciful deceit about her own marriage. Or is she telling the truth? Characterized as both shattering and hilarious, the play is a laugh-filled story of long-term love and marriage, for better and for worse.
Tickets range from $10 to $30. “Clever Little Lies" will be performed through November 12, 2017 with shows on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. An additional matinee will be offered on November 11. The Quogue Community Hall is located at 125 Jessup Ave, Quogue, NY 11959. www.hamptontheatre.org.
Click here for event details.
.
Carolann DiPirro and Edward A. Brennan. Photo by Tom Kochie.
.
Concert: Omer Quartet Chamber Ensemble at Peconic Landing
Peconic Landing presents a string quartet concert on Sunday, November 12, 2o17 at 3 p.m.
Violinists Mason Yu and Erica Tursi, violist Jinsun Hong, and cellist Alex Cox make up The Omer Quartet, one of today's top young string quartets. Their program at Peconic landing will include works by Mozart and Beethoven.
Admission is free. Peconic Landing is located at 1500 Brecknock Rd, Greenport, NY 11944. www.peconiclanding.org.
Click here for event details.
______________________________
Things to Do on the East End is published weekly and presents our selection of the most interesting events in art and culture for the upcoming week and weekend in The Hamptons and on the East End of Long Island. Looking for art? Visit our Exhibition Finder to see what's on view in the galleries and museums. Click here to begin browsing.
_________________________________
Copyright 2017 Hamptons Art Hub LLC. All rights reserved.