Arts

Sag Harbor Cinema's Festival of Preservation will feature an eclectic roster of films by notable directors, dating from 1923 to the present, and featuring conversations with filmmakers and curators and a live salute to vaudeville.

Shot in the Hamptons with a Sag Harbor-based director, "Love . . . Reconsidered" is a truly independent film about a young woman trying to find her footing in an angst-ridden farce.

MM Fine Art in Southampton will mount a benefit show for Heart of the Hamptons, with work by more than 20 local artists.

After 29 years at Guild Hall, including 20 as its museum director and chief curator, Christina Strassfield will become executive director of the Southampton Arts Center.

Solo shows for Scott Bluedorn and Paton Miller, holiday exhibitions at Grenning and Romany Kramoris, 26 East End artists at Ashawagh Hall, benefit for African children at Keyes Art

Sparked by music at the age of 2, Christian John Wikane followed his passion, becoming a music journalist and essayist who has interviewed over 500 recording artists, songwriters, and producers in print and on video.

Classical Latin guitar at the Rogers Library, HamptonsFilm's Screenwriters Lab is open for submissions, Wine and Roses benefit tries again at the Southampton Cultural Center, and a Mega Raffle for Our Fabulous Variety Show.

The Parrish Art Museum will hold an "Architecture Trivia Night" with questions from professional architects and prizes for the winning contestants.

A concert and dance party celebrating the music of Duke Ellington will be held at The Church in Sag Harbor.

Sanda Weigl, who will perform two concerts of Roma music at The Church, has led an extraordinary life, buffeted by politics and antisemitism, that took her from Romania to East Berlin to West Berlin, and finally to New York and Sag Harbor.

Among the arts organizations receiving money from recently announced New York State Council on the Arts grants were several East End institutions. The dozen recipients account for a total of $180,000 of the $32 million allotted among more than a thousand cultural organizations in the state.

Jeremy Dennis at Bay Street Theater, Christopher Knowles at Watermill Center, contemporary crafts at Make Hauser & Wirth, Mary Heilmann honored, Robert Longo in L.A., political cartoons, trees, and vertical geometry

Opinion: Bay Street Theater's "All Things Equal" celebrates the many achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the playwright's portrait of the late Supreme Court justice is at times one-dimensional.

The Parrish Art Museum will present the first major retrospective of work by Mel Kendrick, whose sculpture highlights the inherent possibilities of materials, and the myriad ways of configuring them.

Groundbreaking film at Sag Cinema, open studios at Watermill Center, classical music in Southampton and on Shelter Island, prize-winning play at Montauk Library

The Hampton Theatre Company's current production of "Over the River" is "unremittingly funny and genuinely moving," with perfect casting and sharp dialogue.

The Church in Sag Harbor hosts a master guitar maker, the American Artists' Hand Archive, a 1940s-style dance class, and the artist Steve Miller.

When the sculptor Rudolph Serra could not get clay during the pandemic, he turned to surfboard foam and aqua resin to create elegant, gestural, three-dimensional sculptural forms.

Pastels and decorative objects at the Drawing Room, handmade illustrated books at Colm Rowan Fine Art, Dan Welden workshop at Southampton Arts Center, Parrish talk on Shinnecock history, benefit for Brooks-Park, and an eclectic group show at Mark Borghi

Guild Hall grant will support indigenous stories, culture, and language, LongHouse welcomes dogs, tree lovers, and kids, classical piano at the Parrish, Grateful Dead tribute band in Sag, Halloween silent disco in Southampton

HIFF announced its full slate of prize winners for this year, including the audience award-winning narrative film, "Return to Seoul," and the winning documentary, "Bobi Wine: The People's President."

The esteemed writers Jill Bialosky and A.M. Homes, both with new books, will be at The Church in Sag Harbor to talk about their own work, each other's work, and the new books, which will be for sale and signing.

"Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play" turns Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella into a silly, campy, and hilarious farce thanks to a cast that hams it up in a rollicking way.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and trials, both public and private, are captured by Michelle Azar in "All Things Equal," a new one-woman play by Rupert Holmes coming to Bay Street Theater.

Ashawagh Hall exhibit highlights Springs art and history, "Swept Away" returns to Main Beach, printmaking workshops at The Church, Mary Ellen Bartley in Chelsea, Eric Firestone opens two shows in Manhattan

Vija Celmins will receive an award for printmaking excellence and participate in a talk as part of the annual fair of the International Fine Print Dealers Association.

Winka Dubbeldam, a Dutch-born architect, writer, and professor, talks about technology, innovation, modern architecture, social housing, breaking rules, and the need for better building standards and stricter regulations in the U.S.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's fall series will launch with a concert by the Calidore String Quartet and continue with Schubert in November and a Holiday concert in December.

Classical piano at Montauk and Rogers Memorial Libraries, musical 'Rebirth' at Old Whalers Church, tea ceremony at LongHouse, J. Smith-Cameron to be honored by North Fork TV Fest

After screening an episode of "Gutsy," her series about courageous women, Chelsea Clinton sat down for a conversation with Donna Karan about parenting and growing up in the public eye at the Hamptons Film Festival.