Arts

Bill Akin is a writer and raconteur whose life has been intimately entwined with the culture of Montauk as a fisherman, environmental activist, writer, surfer, and founder of Music for Montauk.

Staged readings at LTV and Montauk Library, black comedy thriller at Sag Harbor Cinema, theater workshops at Bay Street, Black Film Fest continues in Bridgehampton, string quartet at Perlman Music Program.

Keith Sonnier’s artful interpretations in neon and on paper of herd animals, inspired by his travels abroad and visits to the Museum of Natural History in New York, are at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack for two more days.

OLA’s Latino Film Festival will include four features and one animated short, with two U.S. premieres, at the Sag Harbor Cinema, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

It’s all about memoirs this weekend at The Church in Sag Harbor, with a four-hour memoir-writing workshop on Saturday and a panel discussion with four accomplished writers on Sunday.

Contemporary artists and local history come together at Ashawagh Hall, deadline looms for Guild Hall’s members show, solo shows for Julian Schnabel and Sanford Biggers, two group shows at MM Fine Art.

All Star Comedy will bring three comic talents to Bay Street, and Julie Andrews and Emma Hamilton will be there with a new children’s book.

Jazz and Latin music at Duck Creek, sustainable landscape tour in East Hampton, classical piano at Southampton Cultural Center, house tour in Southampton, Sag Cinema fund-raiser, gardening tips in Bridge.

Duck Creek has two concerts this weekend to celebrate the beginning of the shoulder season here. Anna Webber and Shimmer Wince play on Saturday and Mambo Loco is on Sunday.

The next stop for the Parrish Art Museum’s Road Show series is the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, where Hiroyuki Hamada will show three large-scale site-specific sculptures.

In the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision, Carol Steinberg, an expert in art law who will speak at the East Hampton Library, unpacks the implications of copyright law for practicing artists.

The Art Barge to travel to Springs, a garden painting workshop in Bridge, solos for Michael Butler, Stephen Laub, Joan Semmel, Jane Wilson, and Stephen Loschen, a group show from Folioeast, two shows at Halsey McKay, an Artists Alliance tour, and more.

The Church in Sag Harbor has announced two art-focused road trips, one to the North Fork and Shelter Island, and another to the Whitney Museum and Chelsea.

Thanks in part to an East Hampton family, Ann Lowe, an African-American high-end couturier who designed Jackie Kennedy’s wedding gown but died largely forgotten, is being recognized with an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum.

Comedy at the Southampton Cultural Center, silent disco at Guild Hall, classical music festival at LTV Studios, jazz at the Parrish Art Museum.

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its poster artist, Susan Meiselas, a documentary photographer, plus several additional film it will screen.

Hindman, a Chicago-based auction house, is expanding to New York City and the East End in an effort to meet clients and collectors where they live, and to connect with new clients as well.

A Parrish panel on James Brooks had curatorial observations, a protégé's reminiscences, and the context of his time and place in midcentury Springs.

At its annual Landscape Luncheon, LongHouse Reserve will honor Abra Lee, a horticulturist whose lecture will illuminate the untold stories of America’s Black gardeners, farmers, and growers.

Sculpture by Sally Richardson in Montauk, artists’ panel at the Parrish, open studios in Springs, Bert Stern and Hilary Helfant at Keyes Art, April Gornik in Chelsea, photojournalism in Sag Harbor, Anne Raymond and Chris Kelly in Montauk.

Toby Lightman hit it big in her early 20s, signing a record deal and opening for Prince, but it was in part his advice that led her to go independent and release studio-quality work under her own label.

"The idea of looking at something for a minute, appalls me," said Dorothy Wiggins, who at 98 has amassed a combined 65,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram. Still, there she is in the virtual playground of teenagers, enjoying something that few people do on social media: near universal love. 

Warren Haynes, who has recorded and performed with the Allman Brothers Band, the Dickey Betts Band, and his own group, Gov’t Mule, will give a rare solo performance at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

Sag Harbor Hills will be the site of Celebrating Creatives of Color, an art show and book-signing featuring work by 24 Black painters, photographers, jewelry-makers, ceramicists, and writers.

In addition to five world premiere screenings, this year’s Hamptons Film Festival will include “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” a documentary by Alex Gibney, and a new drama by Todd Haynes starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.

Charlie Parker celebration and Greek drama workshop at Bay Street Theater, piano master concert and American Songbook show at LTV, auditions at Hampton Theatre Company, classical concert series at LongHouse, violin recital at Perlman Music Program.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek will conclude its summer exhibition schedule with landscape paintings by Sue McNally that focus more on process than depiction, and ceramics by Ted Tyler that incorporate materials such as copper, wax, and stone.

The Sag Harbor Cinema is screening three boxing films, “Girlfight” with Michelle Rodriguez, “Hard Times” with Charles Bronson and James Coburn, and Luchino Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers.”

With boxing as its subject, the artworks in The Church’s current exhibition illuminate the theme “in a range from the literal to way-off-the-map detours, both rigorous and exhilarating.”

A discussion about “toxic achievement culture,” a performance by the Harlem Gospel Choir, and a program of short documentaries are coming to the Southampton Arts Center.