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ART EVENTS For more events happening this week, check out: North Fork Calendar pg. 41, Calendar pg. 46, Kids’ Calendar pg. 48
openings and events SCREENING OF UNTITLED OBSERVATIONS AT THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM 12/14, 12/17, 12/19, & 12/21, 3-4 p.m., Screenings of artist Hope Sandrow’s celestial video, “Untitled Observations,” along with guided telescope viewings on Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Through 1/18. Free with museum admission. 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. 631-283-2118 www.parrishart.org
ongoing ART SHOW AT ROSALIE DIMON GALLERY Internationally renowned artist Ivan Kustura and award-winning photographer Stephen Bitel. 370 Manor Lane, Jamesport. Through December. 631-722-0500 www.jamesportmanorinn.com HAMPTON LIBRARY ART GALLERY PRESENTS “IVORY ORPHANS” The Art Gallery of the Hampton Library is currently displaying “Ivory Orphans” photographs by Geri Bauer. 2478 Main Street, Bridgehampton, 631-537-0015
“FACE OFF: CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS” CLOSING RECEPTION AT THE ROSS SCHOOL 12/14, 4–6 p.m. A student-curated exhibition featuring works by Sydney Albertini, Jack Ceglic, John Hardy, Christa Maiwald, Christina Schlesinger and portraits by Ross students, graduates, and teachers. 18 Goodfriend Drive, East Hampton. 631-907-5000
Gary Mamay
EAST END STORIES ON SCREEN AT THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM 12/15, 6-7:30 p.m., An evening of avant-garde films by Rudy Burckhardt, Maya Deren, & Alfred Leslie, guest curator Andrew Lampert. The film series continues on 12/21, 6-7:30 p.m., curated by Andrea Grover. Montauk Highway, Water Mill. Tickets are $10, $8 for members. 279 631-283-2118 www.parrishart.org THE ART GALLERY AT QUOGUE LIBRARY PRESENTS DIANNE MARTIN 2/1, “A Walk on the Wild Side: Monotypes with Collage by Dianne Martin.” Through February 27. 90 Quogue Street. 631-653-4224 www.quoguelibrary.org
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Work by Anne Seelbach
GROUP FOR THE EAST END HOSTS HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AND ART SHOW “Troubled Waters: Awareness and Solutions.” The show runs through 12/21. Open Monday–Friday from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 54895 Route 25 (Main Street), Southold. 631-765-6450, ext. 208, 631-765-6450, ext. 215 NEOTERIC FINE ART PRESENTS “ARTIST’S HOLIDAY MARKET” Hand-made crafts, works of art including jewelry, furniture, design items and more. 208 Main Street, Amagansett. Through 12/23. For more information: Scott Bluedorn 631-838-7518 info@neotericfineart.com www.neotericfineart.com
OPICK OF THE WEEK SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15
East End Stories on Screen (See below left) VERED GALLERY Vered Gallery presents its Holiday Group exhibition. This show features new works by Grant Haffner, Ray Caesar, Adam Handler and Ron Agam as well as special selections by Yayoi Kusama, Will Cotton, David Hockney and Robert Mapplethorpe. Through December. 68 Park Place, East Hampton, 631-324-3303 GREENPORT HOLIDAY ART FESTIVAL For South Street Gallery and Framers. 18 South Street, www.thesouthstreetgallery.com, Mermania & Other Fantasies at the Siren’s Song Gallery & Carriage House, 516 Main Street, www.sirensonggallery.com, Cindy Pease Roe Gallery & Studio, 190 Sterling Street, www.cindypeaseroe.com, deCordova Studio, 538 Main Street, www.hadecordova.com, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, 234 Carpenter Street, www.harborbrewing.com, Winter Harbor Gallery, 211 Main Street, www.winterharborgallery.com, and Gallery M, 407 Main Street. Through 12/31. 631-477-9496 www.gallerym.biz “DIGGING UP OUR AGRARIAN ROOTS” On view through December. Shelter Island Historical Society. 16 South Ferry Road, Shelter Island. 631-749-0025 PARRISH ART MUSEUM The Parrish Art Museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End. The Parrish presents Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process on view through January 13. 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. 631-283-2118
Send gallery listings to kelly@danspapers.com before noon on Friday. Check out www.danshamptons.com for more listings and events.
Movies... ua east hampton cinema 6 (+) (631-324-0448)
THIS WEEK’S HOT FLICKS… The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Any Day Now Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star in this drama, set in the 70s, about a gay couple trying to adopt a teenager with Down syndrome. It seems that the teenager has been abandoned by his own mother, and the gay couple has become his defacto family. So what they seek from the legal system is not the invention of a new relationship, but rather the legal recognition of an existing and important relationship. This would appear to be a timely subject for a film, given the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear two cases relating to the constitutionality of laws against gay marriage—that is, laws that place limits on legal recognition of homosexual relationships. Perhaps this film is poised to play a part in our national evolution of thought on civil rights.
The question is, will moviegoers ever get tired of these little Hobbit guys (they do seem to be only guys), who have furry feet and live in earthen dwellings and like to drink tea? The answer is, probably not. And thus we now have The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to the blockbuster threepart film epic The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, Tolkien’s own prequel to his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the popular books in which Tolkien mixed Nordic and Anglo-Saxon mythologies into a heady mixture—a mixture so potent that it has driven many a teenage boy to grow bad facial hair, and has become the recipe for countless rip-off sagas featuring wizards and smallish humanoids. Of course, this new film is just the first installment in a series that, when completed, will clock in at 18 hours and will have taken over all of New Zealand.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Red Dawn
From the looks of the trailer, in The Fitzgerald Family Christmas the Long Island filmmaker Edward Burns (who has a house in the Hamptons) has applied his familiar shopping list of working-class Irish-American stereotypes to Christmas. In this case, Burns has replaced the usual drunken, abusive father with the father who disappeared. It’s the deadbeat dad riff: the dad left, and the strong mother was left to provide for her—it goes without saying— enormous and contentious brood. Fast-forward 20 years, and deadbeat dad wants to come back and visit—for Christmas. The question of whether to let this happen leads to all manner of Irish-style sibling disputes, beer-swilling fights and Irish-mom grudge-holding contests. The film features Kerry Bishé, Edward Burns, Heather Burns, Marsha Dietlein Bennett, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Anita Gillette, Tom Guiry, Ed Lauter and Michael McGlone as the Fitzgerald Family.
Need a xenophobia fix? Want to see enacted, on screen, your revenge fantasy for all of the rampant socialism you think is being forced upon you? Red Dawn is the remake of your dreams. In the 80’s, the late Patrick Swayze starred in Red Dawn, in which the Soviet Union and Cuba (!) invaded a small town in the U.S.A. and tried to bring about an end to righteous capitalism. In 2012, the new Red Dawn arrives courtesy of China. In the film, China sees fit to invade white bread suburban Washington State in an attempt to undermine market capitalism—and to destroy football, which is of course the breeding ground of capitalistic self-reliance. During this new Red Dawn, you will watch with patriotic pride as young Washington Staters take up righteous arms against these foreign anti-capitalists. As our young heroes blow away our Chinese aggressors, their victory cry? “Wolverines!,” the name of their high school football team.
30 Main Street, East Hampton
ua southampton cinema (+) (631-287-2774) 43 Hill Street, Southampton
sag harbor cinema (+) (631-725-0010) 90 Main Street, Sag Harbor Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
ua hampton bays 5 (+) (631-728-8251) 119 West Montauk Highway, Hampton Bays
mattituck cinemas (631-298-SHOW) 10095 Main Road, Mattituck hampton arts (Westhampton beach) (+) (631-288-2600)
2 Brook Road, Westhampton Beach
Village cinema (greenport) (631-477-8600) 211 Front Street, Greenport Closed for the season.
montauk movie (631-668-2393) 3 Edgemere Road, Montauk Closed for the season. The sign (+) when following the name of a theater indicates that a show has an infrared assistive listening device. Please confirm with the theater before arriving to make sure they are available.