What's happening on Long Island this weekend

Exhibits and more...

Enduring Images
An exhibition, drawn from Hofstra University Museum’s permanent collections, focusing on the lasting record created by an artist’s visual responses to critical moments in time. Yonia Fain, a Holocaust survivor considered a “witness to history,” is represented, along with artists such as George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz and Jacob Lawrence. Through Jan. 31. Hofstra University’s David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Maxfield Parrish: Paintings and Prints from the National Museum of American Illustration
An exhibition of works by the American imagist, embodying the artist’s long career and extraordinary accomplishments. Original artworks as well as a large collection of vintage prints are included. Through Feb. 28. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
Mysteries of Bats
An exhibit of varied species of bats, featuring a live family of Egyptian Fruit Bats who fly and “hang out” in the museum’s nocturnal area. With displays about Long Island’s ecology and interactive activities. Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Washington Ave. (between Merrick Rd. and Sunrise Hwy.), Seaford. 571-7443.
You Go, Girl! Celebrating Women Artists
An overview of 50 women artists from the 19th century through today. Working in representational and abstract styles, and in varied artistic modes, including painting, sculpture, prints, mixed media, and photography, these artists express a wide range of personal and aesthetic concerns. Artists on view include Berenice Abbott, Elaine de Kooning, Dorothy Dehner, Audrey Flack, Jane Hammond, Mary Nimmo Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Betty Parsons, Miriam Schapiro, Esphyr Slobodkina, Emma Stebbins, Jane Wilson, and others. Through April 3. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Afternoon Movie
See “Jimmy’s Hall,” a dramatization of the life and times of Irish communist James “Jimmy” Gralton, Friday, Jan. 15, 2:30 p.m.; also “Before We Go,” a romantic comedy-drama about a chance encounter between two strangers in Grand Central Terminal that sparks a life-changing, nighttime sojourn through New York City, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See the romantic comedy-drama “Some Kind of Beautiful,” about an aging lothario who spends his days as a highly articulate Cambridge English professor and his nights crassly romanticizing students, Friday, Jan. 15, 2 p.m. Merrick Library, 2279 Merrick Rd., Merrick. 377-6112.
Friday Flick
See “Big Eyes,” a biographical drama based on the life of painter Margaret Keane, Friday, Jan. 15, 1 p.m. Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, 60 Verona Place, Valley Stream. 825-6422.
Movie Matinee
See “Ricki and The Flash,” the comedy-drama about an aging rock star who abandoned her family to chase fame and stardom, starring Meryl Streep, Friday, Jan. 15, 2 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Mr. M’s Movies
See “Pawn Sacrifice,” the biopic that chronicles chess prodigy Bobby Fischer’s challenge against the Soviet Union champions at the height of the Cold War, Friday, Jan. 15, 2 p.m. Rockville Centre Public Library, 221 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre. 766-6257.
Poetry Reading
Acclaimed Long Island poets read from the latest Long Island Sounds anthology, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Film Time
See “Testament of Youth,” a British drama based on Vera Brittain’s World War I memoir about an independent young woman who abandoned her Oxford studies to become a war nurse, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Film Showing
Watch “People Like Us,” a drama about a salesman settling his deceased father’s estate and the sister he never knew about, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.
Illustrated Art Lecture
Examine the impact of Andy Warhol three decades after his death, in “Warhol’s Influence,” with Art History Professor Thomas Germano, Thursday, Jan. 21, 1 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.

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