Meeting on the third Thursday of each month, Drink and Draw With Me… (Bri Ashe) is an opportunity to meet new people, discuss your day, and create art together.
Equipped with “small art stuff” – pens, pencils, markers –, and some uncommon surfaces – napkins, coasters, receipts –, Drink and Draw invites you to unwind and unleash your creative side. Registration includes access to Townline BBQ Happy Hour prices on food & drink throughout the night. Designated Drivers are encouraged.
This month at Guild Hall Game Night we will be playing Mental Blocks.
Mental Blocks is cooperative puzzle solving game where players work together to build a common structure out of foam blocks. For every puzzle, each player receives a card depicting one perspective of the finished structure. Players must work together using their limited information to solve the puzzle before the timer runs out. After a couple rounds, we will try the “hidden traitor variant,” where a player who knows the puzzle’s solution is actively trying to sabotage the team without being found out. Mental Blocks is an incredibly simple concept that has everyone playing with blocks, stretching their minds, and working together.
Out with the old, in with the new!
In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive table-top games that make Monopoly seem like it was designed in 1905. Game night no longer means suffering through hours of rolling dice in Monopoly or Risk. Today’s newest non-digital board and card games cultivate creativity, problem solving, social skills, and dexterity through clever game design. Join Guild Hall and Game Master Noah Salaway in embracing the tabletop revolution as we play some of the best modern board games on the market the last Monday of each month. Take a break from the digital age and join us at the table! Ages 16 and up only.
Puccini’s Turandot is a classic example of the height of the Italian romantic style – through-composed opera with lush orchestral textures, demanding larger voices to declaim highly emotional themes. Most of Puccini’s operas are truly verismo operas in their conception, like La bohème and Tosca, recounting in ‘real time’ tales of love and sometimes violence rather than the mythological and real kings and queens or counts and countesses of the earlier operas. Turandot breaks the mold and is based on a Persian myth which Puccini sets in China. Here Puccini fits the ancient tale of the Princess Turandot in the operatic sound-world that he helped propel. Join pianist Derrick Goff and tenor Cameron Schutza as we explore how to listen to this changing operatic style.
Please join us for the Season Opener Breakfast Reception at 11:30am in the Wasserstein Gallery prior to the lecture-recital at 12pm.
Directed by Amanda Kate Joshi
KINGDOM OF THE SPIRITS is about a Jewish nightclub owner in Berlin between 1938 and 1945. Her longtime lover Heinz, who is now a powerful Nazi General, comes to her club one evening in 1938 to tell her that she must leave Berlin, that he can no longer protect her, but that he has created a plan for her escape and survival.
She agrees to go along with it only if he will promise to protect her family and guarantee that no harm will come to them. He agrees, and a deal with the devil is struck. The political climate of war and its psychological landscape is the place where Kingdom of the Spirits takes place, misinformation is rife, collaboration and collusion are temptations too difficult to dismiss and death is one poor decision away.
Kingdom of the Spirits is a story about the price we pay for forbidden love, betrayal, political complicity, and ultimately survival.
Taking inspiration from the landscape and materials around us, Laurie Lambrecht invites you to consider where we are through the art of weaving. Using found materials such as driftwood, beach finds, old picture frames and recycled fabrics, Laurie shares her process of creating looms and site-inspired weaving. Open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Come with the materials you find, leave with a loom, work in process or finished piece, and inspiration aplenty!
The 3rd Annual Visionaries Benefit Luncheon will take place on Friday, November 15 at 11:30am at THE POOL in the landmark Seagram Building in NYC. Visionaries brings together three artistic disruptors and innovators in art, lifestyle, and design, for a conversation moderated by Executive Director Andrea Grover. Shantell Martin, Sunny Khalsa, and Marguerite Zabar Mariscal will share their incredible visions and journeys.
Premiere Sponsor: Akris
VIEW THIS YEAR’S INVITATION: 2019 VISIONARIES BENEFIT LUNCHEON
Guest Curator: Joan Marter, PhD
October 26- December 30, 2019, Moran and Woodhouse Galleries
Reception: October 27, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: October 27, 1-2pm
This exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture will celebrate the outstanding collection of Abstract Expressionist art owned by Guild Hall. Abstract Expressionism was an avant-garde movement of the 1950s that resulted, in part, from the dynamic interplay of artists working on the East End. Among the participants in this “artist colony” of the Hamptons were permanent residents and summer visitors. Painters included Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, James Brooks and Charlotte Park, Robert Motherwell, and Grace Hartigan among others. Presentation of many works that have not been exhibited in recent years, also brings attention to the digitization of the Guild Hall collection that was completed recently. The Museum has been building a significant collection of Abstract Expressionist works, and prime examples will be combined with loans by artists who created their work on the East End.
The exhibition will include a catalogue with color illustrations of examples in the Guild Hall collection, and an essay that explains the importance of East End artists to the emergence of Abstract Expressionism .
Joan Marter is an American academic, art critic and author with a Ph.D. from The University of Delaware, 1974. Marter is the “Distinguished Professor of Art History” at Rutgers University, the co-editor of the Woman’s Art Journal, the editor of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, the author and co-organizer of Women of Abstract Expressionism in 2016 (Denver Art Museum).
The Lehman Trilogy
by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
directed by Sam Mendes
The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening.
Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins.
163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
This critically acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award nominated play features stunning set design from Es Devlin (NT Live: Hamlet) and will be broadcast live from London’s West End as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th Birthday season.
Developed as a collaboration between Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Guild Hall, and the American Parkinson Disease Association, Sing Out Loud (SOL) is a therapeutic chorus designed specifically for people living with Parkinson’s Disease and their care partners.
As featured on News 12, Southampton Press, East Hampton Star, and The Independent, this fun, 8-week workshop is led by Valerie diLorenzo, award-winning Vocalist and Teaching Artist, with accompaniment by Amanda Jones, Director of Music Education for South Fork Performing Arts Inc. The program includes voice and breathing exercises, while focusing on singing and the joy of coming together to celebrate music and one another. No prior singing experience required!
Developed as a collaboration between Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Guild Hall, and the American Parkinson Disease Association, Sing Out Loud (SOL) is a therapeutic chorus designed specifically for people living with Parkinson’s Disease and their care partners.
As featured on News 12, Southampton Press, East Hampton Star, and The Independent, this fun, 8-week workshop is led by Valerie diLorenzo, award-winning Vocalist and Teaching Artist, with accompaniment by Amanda Jones, Director of Music Education for South Fork Performing Arts Inc. The program includes voice and breathing exercises, while focusing on singing and the joy of coming together to celebrate music and one another. No prior singing experience required!