Arts

The artist Michael Butler will talk about his work at Guild Hall, Jeremy Dennis will be at the Leiber Collection to discuss his book “On This Site—Native Long Island,” and the Stella Flame Gallery will feature jewelry, art, and a film.

Susan Meiselas and Lindsay Morris at The Church, Mary Boochever at Guild Hall, Helen Harrison at the Leiber Collection, works on paper in Springs, Stephen Antonakos in Manhattan, and images of New York State from East End photographers.

"The Big Christmas Show: A Musical Radio Play," conceived and written by Joe Landry and Michael Disher, will celebrate the holidays and radio variety shows with four performances this weekend at the Southampton Arts Center, starting Friday.

“Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era” at the Southampton Arts Center showcases a broad range of work by interesting women artists of the New York School, many of whom were overlooked until recent years.

Bay Street Theater will show "Florencia en el Amazonas” live in HD from the Met, and Judy Carmichael and her trio will perform swing music from the 1930s and ’40s.

The DeRosas play in Montauk, Merry Madoo, a quest in Cuba, Scott Chaskey on poetry and the land, music from the 1920s in Southampton, and more.

Linda K. Alpern’s photographic portraits reflect the trust her subjects have in her and her singular ability to capture a unique moment in time.

“Merry Good Enough,” set to be screened at LTV, is a mix of dark comedy and drama about a family’s dysfunction that shifts into high gear when the mother disappears on Christmas Eve.

Hamptons Doc Fest will bring such noted directors as James Ivory, James Lapine, and Matthew Heineman to Sag Harbor, as well as films about Dan Rather, Rose Styron, Anselm Kiefer (directed by Wim Wenders), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Holiday concert from the Choral Society of the Hamptons, LongHouse comes alive at night, theater history talk in Montauk, mismatched men in play at LTV, “Prince of Egypt” musical has East End connection, and two nights of comedy in Southampton.

“What the Band Wore,” a photography book by Alice Harris, a former music industry executive, captures four decades of rock and pop fashion, ranging from the Beatles and Elvis to Elton John, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Prince, Janet Jackson, and many others.

The Church will host a live reading of “Dolphins and Sharks,” a new play about stressful working conditions and employee rivalry at a Harlem copy shop.

Monica Banks at Leiber Collection, photography curators at The Church, holiday group show at Grenning, Israeli art in Greenport, Andreesen and Elkins at MM Fine Art, and a focus on color at Kathryn Markel.

Tony Rosenthal's “Cube 72,” a tilting sculptural fixture in front of Guild Hall for decades, is back in place after a restoration to its original spinning glory.

Eight local arts organizations receive state grants, Studio 54 comes to LTV, comedy shows in Southampton and Sag Harbor, celebrating Billy Joel in Stony Brook.

The Holiday Makers Market at The Church in Sag Harbor will feature textiles, jewelry, home goods, health and beauty items, artworks, ceramics, clothing, and food, all by East End artisans, as well as a print exhibition and an outdoor singalong.

Prudence Peiffer’s new book, “The Slip,” focuses on the artists who lived in abject riverfront lofts on Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan during the formative years of their careers before going on to art world success.

Fred Berner, Amy Durning, and Kristie Macosko Krieger, the producers of "Maestro," the just-released film about Leonard Bernstein, will be at the Sag Harbor Cinema on Saturday for a question-and-answer session after the film's 6:15 p.m. screening. 

Ukraine benefit at White Room, big group show at Tripoli, Helen Harrison on the movie "Pollock," benefit for Planned Parenthood at Mark Borghi, Margaret Garrett solo in Manhattan.

The East Hampton Historical Society’s House and Garden Tour will feature two Devon Colony estates, Grey Gardens, and other notable and notorious properties.

“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s film about Leonard Bernstein's life and marriage, with Mr. Cooper in the title role, was well received at the Hamptons International Film Festival’s screening, after which Bernstein’s children expressed their admiration for the film.

There’s a story to “Now and Then,” the Beatles’ final song, and it involves a decades-old cassette recording by John Lennon, the use of advanced technology to produce a clear Lennon vocal, and the efforts of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late George Harrison.

A talk in Montauk on New York State’s derelict historical sites, comedy and a piano recital in Southampton, an “impulsive movement” workshop at The Church, pop, jazz, and raising the Dead in Sag Harbor, classical music in Southampton.

The filmmaker Williams Cole talks about two current projects, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Gumbo Coalition,” which he co-produced, and “Rebel Wife,” a work in progress about his great-grandmother, an Irish revolutionary.

Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy will be at the Canoe Place Inn to talk with Chris Cuomo about hip-hop’s 50-year rise to the world stage.

Bay Street Theater’s production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s still-timely drama, features nearly flawless performances and swiftly paced direction, in what The Star’s reviewer calls a “searing new production.”

A new film explores the “male gaze” and the objectification of women by recreating British colonial postcards with contemporary women of color as models.

Bay Street Theater will be one of the outlets sharing The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a 1986 opera having its premiere at the the Metropolitan Opera this season.

Mary Boochever decided early on that her art would be motivated by her interest in color, a preoccupation that has been informed by her deep research into such sources as theosophy, alchemy, Kabbalah, feng shui, and Chinese medicine, all of which view color as a dynamic principle.

Ned Smyth and John Torreano to talk at the Parrish, advanced printmaking workshop at The Church, glass art and oil paintings at Halsey McKay, solo shows for Billy Sullivan and Joyce Raimondo, group shows in Springs and Noyac.