Arts

The actor, philanthropist, podcaster, game show host, and all-round South Fork gadfly will be the subject of the sass and barbs of Robert De Niro, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, and others on Comedy Central Sunday.

A tribute to the composer Jule Styne at Guild Hall, and “Othello” at Bay Street.

Eric Fischl has produced a powerful piece of artwork that represents “the madness of the moment,” he said, referring to the immigration crisis at the southern border.

On Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will open “Slack Tide,” a group exhibition featuring seven artists who work in a variety of mediums. The term “slack tide” describes a state when little to no tidal movement is detectable.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will screen Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” as its Friday Centerpiece film on Oct. 11, and the festival has announced several other titles that will be featured during its main event over Columbus Day weekend.

What can we learn from the third iteration of Eric Firestone Gallery’s copious exhibition “Montauk Highway,” now on view in East Hampton? Quite a lot, it turns out.

Steinberg Returns

“Saul Steinberg: Drawings, Watercolors, and Objects” will open Friday at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Oct. 21. Organized in collaboration with the Saul Steinberg Foundation, the exhibition will highlight Steinberg’s original use of materials, iconic imagery, and wit.

Terry Elkins’s road to the potato barn in Sagaponack where he lives and works has taken many turns. Like the artists John Alexander and Dan Rizzie, Mr. Elkins moved north from Texas. One of the incentives for that move was a chance meeting with Willem de Kooning.

Concerts, auditions, a weekend doc film fest, new classes at Bay Street, and more

Like a rolling stone, Michael Weiskopf has been on the move. Last year, he recorded a fourth solo release. He has recently lived in Portugal, performed in Slovenia’s two largest cities and elsewhere in Europe, and written a book.

The artist Neke Carson has always defied convention and shifted art's shapes. His first drawing, dating from 1949, when he was 3, shows his mother screaming while spiders crawl up her dress toward her open mouth.

The summer season has ended, but Guild Hall hasn’t gotten the message. A trio of music programs and a solo performance that takes place in a bathtub are on the calendar for the coming week, starting tomorrow evening at 8 with a performance by the composer and pianist Bruce Wolosoff and his daughter, Juliet Garrett, a singer-songwriter.

“Paradise,” Edsel Williams's latest exhibition at the Fireplace Project in Springs, features Andrew Brischler and Lee Relvas, who are getting notice for their individual showings in galleries and art fairs, but who also seem as if they are on the precipice of something bigger.

Two years ago, Sara De Luca, the proprietor of Ille Arts in Amagansett, discovered that early September, when the weather is still lovely and the roads are relatively passable, is an ideal time for a circuit of artists’ studios.

New exhibitions of Giard and Guild Hall volunteers, local artists travel to New York and Halifax, a new film series on Van Gogh, and more

‘Who Gets to Call It Art?” is a sprawling collage of a film. Made in 2006, it has a style not unlike the era it covers, jerky and jump-cut with a groovy garage band soundtrack.

Mountain's Corky Laing at Canio's, a film about a slave trafficking family from New England, concerts, a benefit, and more

Guild Hall has a strong finish to summer with a salute to Jules Feiffer on the occasion of his 90th birthday, a concert of Jenni Muldaur and friends such as Rufus Wainwright, and a reception for the interior designer Tom Scheerer and his new book.

There is something subversively exciting about viewing Jacqueline Humphries’s exhibition at Dia’s Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridge­hampton.

Lynn Novick, a documentary filmmaker, was in Sag Harbor for a preview at Bay Street Theater of her most recent project, “College Behind Bars,” a four-hour series that will premiere on PBS in November.

Although it’s not even Labor Day yet, the Hamptons International Film Festival is already preparing for its big event over Columbus Day weekend. On Friday, the festival announced its opening night film, “Just Mercy,” and a group of other high profile films it plans to screen this year.

Group and solo shows opening this week from Montauk to Southampton

Jonny Shapiro does not like to be called a music executive. The founder of Cinematic Music Group prefers to be described as a producer or entrepreneur. No matter his own label, what is clear is that he learned to make moves, to make things happen for himself, right here in East Hampton.

“Hearts Aflame: Love Letters and Torch Songs” will feature a dozen prominent actors reading passionate communiqués ranging from 12th-century letters to contemporary emails in a benefit performance at Guild Hall on Sunday evening at 7.

Amanda Ayala has performed on big stages in Nashville, New York City, Hollywood, and Orlando, Fla., and smaller stages throughout the Northeast, but never in East Hampton.

Shakespeare al fresco in Southampton, college in prison, a photographer's talk, and much more.

From all appearances, Karen and Barry Mason seemed like a regular suburban couple raising three kids in Los Angeles. But for decades, up until this year, they ran the largest gay porn emporium in that city, and for a time were the biggest distributors in the United States, even producing their own films.

Readers of Isaac Mizrahi’s recently published memoir, “I.M.,” will be aware that he always dreamed of being a performer, even as many people know him only through his work in fashion design.

Something of a supergroup will assemble on the stage at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Wednesday at 8 p.m. At its center, will be the singer and songwriter LeRoy Bell.

Two staged readings featuring award-winning actors, two exotic musical mash-ups, and a discussion about the state of the art world will keep Guild Hall hopping this week.