Arts

“Every once in a while we jump right into the heavy, but this year we thought, let’s bring some comedy,” said Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, which organizes the Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons.

The Southampton Arts Center will launch two exhibitions devoted to printmaking with an open portfolio session, a print press demonstration, a panel discussion, and a public reception.

For the Rising Stars Piano Series on Saturday, Kara Huber, a Canadian-American concert artist, performed a program confirming her international renown for a flair for contemporary music. The mostly American program was in some ways a bit lighter than the typical piano recital, but no less substantial.

Ralph Gibson was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy after dropping out of high school. After qualifying for training as a photographer’s mate, he flunked out of photography school. Sixty-two years later, his photography earned him France’s highest order of merit, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

De Niro in the city, a studio visit, Cold War architecture, a new group show at Sara Nightingale, and more.

Although Courtney Sale Ross is now known primarily for the school that bears her name, there was a time when she was a producer and director of documentary films, including one on her neighbor Willem de Kooning.

The week in culture includes Shakespeare and Puccini screenings at Guild Hall, a salute to Julie Andrews, and short films at the Parrish Art Museum.

The Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Artists” exhibition is returning this weekend for its fourth go-round, with several triads of artists coming together to show how their work aligns (or not, as the case may be) across the greater creative community of the East End.

The word “very” just seems to go with Ralph Lauren. The way his citrus-hued puffa jackets just seem to go with all that green-and-blue tartan that is his trademark.

New shows at Ille Arts, Ashawagh Hall, RJD Gallery, the Amagansett Library, and elsewhere.

After years of discussion, restoration, and reconstruction, the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, open to the public for two seasons, is still not finished, but it is well on its way.

Carlos Soto, a director, designer, and performer, has organized the menu and overall environment for Icaros, the Watermill Center’s Artists’ Table Dinner, a celebration of the community with a performance directed by Lynsey Peisinger, a center artist-in-residence.

Friday brings Phoebe Waller-Bridge's reading of "Fleabag" at Guild Hall, The Sixties Show at Bay Street, and a Broadway sing-along at Southampton Arts Center.

After unveiling its new quarters, boasting 40,000 more square feet of exhibition space, in previews and an official opening on Oct. 21, the Museum of Modern Art has proven that it can be a site for multicultural and interdisciplinary art to come together in a way that recasts the canon of the last century and beyond.

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a strict detective story. “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery," the 35th season opener of Quogue’s Hampton Theatre Company," ventures into broad comedy, brought to a frenzied pitch as directed by Diana Marbury.

Fellow surfers hang art at Ashawagh, a weaving workshop, four painters at Ezra in Sag Harbor, and more

Eric Meola is a storm chaser. For the past several years, he has loaded his camera equipment and traveled west from Sagaponack to the Great Plains and “Tornado Alley” to follow and capture the dramatic spring and early summer storms.

Cultural offerings this week include classical and popular music concerts, and Errol Morris doc on Steve Bannon, "All About Eve," and more

Guild Hall’s two fall exhibitions, “Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections From the Permanent Collection” and “Joyce Kubat: My People,” will open on Saturday and continue through Dec. 30.

The Hampton Theatre Company will launch its season with “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" on Thursday. The play weaves elements of farce with theatrical ingenuity and a touch of drama.

A new season of The Met: Live in HD, with performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and “Tosca,” Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten,” Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” and Handel’s “Agrippina,” among others, kicked off Saturday at Guild Hall with Puccini’s opera “Turandot.”

MM Fine Art in Southampton has a refreshing show of photography up through the weekend. Composed of many East End artists, the exhibition is a brew of thoughtful vistas and beach scenes, figure studies that often have a twist, interiors, and some experimental or more conceptual works.

This week's art happenings include a benefit exhibition for the Sag Cinema, a Ross School faculty show, Michael Light's immersive photographs at the Drawing Room, and much more

Awards for the 27th Hamptons International Film Festival were presented on Monday morning in East Hampton.

Lots of drama at Guild Hall this week, classical and contemporary music in art spaces, a Watermill Center In Process afternoon, and more

The director Brian De Palma was in East Hampton to receive the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award and spend an hour lobbing anecdotes, opinions, and snippets of film industry gossip back and forth with Alec Baldwin on Saturday afternoon at a packed Guild Hall.

A reading of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” by Nora and Delia Ephron will be performed at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Mammogram Day.

New shows at Halsey McKay and Ashawagh Hall, plus a new Grenning Gallery venture.

Vija Celmins is a visual seductress. From her early treatment of everyday objects to the water and sky images that have become her trademark, she has fashioned an art that skirts the line between representation and abstraction in a way that is mesmerizing.

Audiences at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor can look forward to two nights of laughter and an afternoon of drama this weekend with a visit from Lisa Lampanelli, a new all-star comedy show, and a screening of the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun.”