Art Weekend

    ArtWalk Hamptons will sponsor numerous art openings and events this weekend with proceeds at some participating galleries to benefit the Retreat. Certain galleries in East Hampton, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, Montauk, Bridgehampton, and Southampton will be open until 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and until 6 p.m. on Sunday.

    There will be talks, tours, and performances in addition to planned receptions. Complete details are available at artwalkhamptons.com.

Yachts to Look At

    “The Glory of Sail: An Exhibition of Classic Yachts Under Sail” will be shown at Bruce Tait Yachts in Sag Harbor. The show includes the work of Ed Gifford, a photographer, and opens Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Kalina on Youngerman

    Richard Kalina will speak about Jack Youngerman at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Saturday at 6 p.m. Mr. Kalina is a longtime friend of Mr. Youngerman, whose sculptures are on view at LongHouse this season. The talk is titled “White and Black,” referring to those works. The cost is $10, free for members.

New at Horowitz

    “Matthew Brannon: Midlife Crisis Intermission” will open on Saturday at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. In a “site-specific solo exhibition of artworks never before shown in the U.S.,” the artist will offer 13 letterpress prints of typical aspirational cultural items, designed to entice and disarm the viewer with humor. The works have a retro, mid-20th-century design aesthetic and refer back to pre-digital imagery, using vintage colors and typefaces.

    Three new works are offered in conjunction with the book “Mr. Brett Easton Ellis/Mr. Matthew Brannon,” published in connection with the exhibition. The works borrow the cultural icons of Mr. Ellis’s 1980s novels. The exhibition will remain on view through July 27.

Duo at Halsey Mckay

    Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton is showing “Sam Moyer and Mika Tajima-Midori Mambo Black Russian” and “Graham Collins-V8” through July 8.

    Ms. Tajima will present her series “Furniture Art,” reverse spray enameled thermoformed acrylic objects subtitled with a geographic location such as Okinawa or Vieques. Mr. Moyer’s new series, “Breakers” combines abstraction and the readymade while still loosely referring to the idea of landscape. Painted glass and dyed canvas are layered in frames that hold them together.

    Mr. Collins, whose work is presented in a solo show, uses painting, architecture, and sculpture in his work to create “a contradictory amalgam of ruin and stability.”

Foss in Bridge

    Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton will present “Cornelia Foss: New Paintings” beginning Saturday with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The show will remain on view through July 9.

    Known for her expressive floral paintings, Ms. Foss has had a long career, beginning in Rome studying with sculptors and painters and continuing with studies at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles. She herself teaches at the Art Students League in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Museum for Women, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2009, she was elected a member of the National Academy of the Arts.

    Peter Marcelle has also organized “Made in Sag Harbor” for the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum. The group show features artists with a Sag Harbor association, such as Claudia Aronow, Terry Elkins, Eric Ernst, Eric Fischl, Dan Rizzie, Donald Sultan, and Gavin Zeigler. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Conservancy Shows Prosek

    As part of the Nature Conservancy’s annual Beaches and Bays Gala on Saturday, the group will offer a monthlong exhibition of James Prosek’s watercolor paintings, “Ocean Fishes.” The event and exhibition will be held at the conservancy’s Center for Conservation in East Hampton. Mr. Prosek’s subjects include striped bass, tarpon, and swordfish and have a conservation message. Aurora Robson’s sculpture exhibition “Circumdare” will also be on view Saturday.

    Tickets for the gala start at $750 and can be purchased by calling the conservancy. Mr. Prosek’s show will be on view for free during its regular office hours through July.

Depot’s Arrival

    Montauk’s Depot Gallery will show the work of Phyllis Chillingworth, Pat Flynn and Sandy Fleishman, Cathy Hunter, Robin Kuntz, and Cynthia Loewen beginning today. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Body of Work” at Ashawagh

    “Body of Work IX,” a group show by figurative artists, will open this weekend at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Nine artists are chosen from the group, which has a larger floating membership, and then one new artist is chosen to highlight.

    The show will include work by Rosalind Brenner, Linda Capello, Michael Cardacino, Ellen Dooley, Anthony Lombardo, Phil Marco, Michael McDowell, Douglas Reina, Frank Sofo, and Margaret Weissbach. It runs Saturday to Sunday and will have a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Barry and Hunter at the Monkey

    The Crazy Monkey Gallery is featuring the art of two of its members, Beth Barry and Cathy Hunter, as well as a group exhibition by the art cooperative’s members, beginning today with a reception on July 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. and running through July 15 in Amagansett.

    Among those with work on view are Andrea McCafferty, Daniel Schoenheimer, Jana Hayden, Jim Hayden, June Kaplan, Ellyn Tucker, Bob Tucker, Sheila Rotner, Mark E. Zimmerman, Tina Andrews, Lance Corey, Cynthia Sobel, Sarah Blodgett, Kathy Hammond, and Daniel Dubinsky.

Wanderlust at Booth

    Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor will show “Wanderlust,” an exhibition of travel photography by Michael Clinton, Saturday through July 8. He will also sign copies of six of his photo books at the reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Mr. Clinton, a hobbyist, is also president and marketing and publishing director for Hearst Magazines. He is a trustee of the International Center of Photography and lives in New York and Southampton.

Parallel Visual Journals

    Ille Arts will exhibit “Landscapes: Parallel Visual Journals,” a show organized by Flo Lunn, beginning Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. It will feature Kamilla Talbot’s paintings and Jonathan Smith’s photos, a video by Rick Liss, and photographs from the estate of Harry H. Lunn Jr.

    In the two artists’ works, Ms. Lunn said she finds “contemplative study, a meditation of sorts on their relationship as humans to space and nature,” which establishes a long relationship between artist and subject. The estate photographs look at historical and contemporary landscapes by artists such as Ansel Adams and Kenro Izu in processes that range from early salt prints to the more common gelatin silver prints.

    The show remains on view through July 15 in Amagansett.

Finding Art

    Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will show “Finding Art V” with Jorge Silveira and Stephen Palmer. The show opens today and will be on view through July 18. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

    Both artists work in sculptural forms using found objects. Mr. Silveira is focused more on color and uses new materials. Mr. Palmer uses vintage items and memorabilia to form shapes inspired by fish.

Tripoli and St. Barths

    Tripoli Gallery is showing a group exhibition with a nod to St. Barths. “St. Barthelemy to Southampton” will feature work by three artists who spend time each year drawing, painting, and sculpting in their studios on the island of St. Barths in the French West Indies. They are Lola Montes Schnabel, Dominique Rousserie, and Vahakn Arslanian. Each shares an interest in the human psyche and reordering of the physical world, according to the gallery.

    A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through Sunday.

Down the Rabbit Hole

    Richard Demato Gallery in Sag Harbor will offer “Down the Rabbit Hole,” a solo show featuring Margo Selski, with Charles Waller, Quim Bove, and John Jude Palencar also with work in the gallery, beginning Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

    The theme is mysticism and imagination, and the show will include Ms. Selski’s magical realism, sculpture in metal and wood by Mr. Waller, and the abstraction of Mr. Bove. Mr. Palencar will offer narration to challenge the viewer and generate thought and conversation. It will remain on view through July 25.

   The reporter turned essayist turned novelist Tom Wolfe, seen through his own writings, will be the subject of a staged reading at Guild Hall tomorrow night at 8. Curated by Judith Auberjonois — “ I hate to use that word,” she said, “because it is a little too trendy, but I did curate it” — “Big Bad Wolfe” has her husband, Rene, playing the author, via excerpts from his work starting with the early 1960s.

    Mr. Wolfe first walked into the New York Herald-Tribune building  in 1962. Newspapers didn’t have a very elaborate hiring system then, he said in a phone interview last week. “I just happened to walk in on the day Lewis Lapham left to start his own magazine.” The typewriter on his desk had Mr. Lapham’s name on it.

    He came to New York from Washington, where he’d worked for The Washington Post. “I was like every other news reporter — I wanted to get to New York. I started off in Springfield, Mass., in 1956, then I got the Post job in 1959.”

    The city had seven dailies, morning and afternoon, in 1962: The Herald-Tribune, The World-Telegram and Sun, The Journal American, The New York Times, the New York Post, The Daily Mirror, and the Daily News.

    “The Daily News used to be the hot newspaper,” Mr. Wolfe said. He recited a 120-something-word lead that he remembers word for word, written by Art Smith, brother to the famous sports columnist Red Smith, that began with a question: “Who do these New York cops think they are, anyhow?”

    Gay Talese of The Times and Jimmy Breslin of the Trib were his demigods. “Some of those stories [Breslin] wrote are absolute marvels of fast reporting and fast writing,” said Mr. Wolfe.

    Mr. Talese, finding himself cramped by Times style, “would write these amazing pieces  for Esquire . . . He believed in saturation in coverage. He and Breslin were the two I noticed. I began using their techniques.”

    He used them well. Mr. Wolfe’s first article for Esquire, “There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) that Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” was published in 1964.

    It was Pete Hamill who gave a name to the burst of creative journalism coming out of the Big Apple at the time, said Mr. Wolfe. “He said, ‘Why don’t we do a story about new journalism?’ and the name stuck.”

    At the same time as New Journalism was altering the way writers and readers looked at nonfiction, the newspaper business was contracting. Following a printers’ strike that crippled three of the broadsheets, The Herald Tribune, The World-Telegram and Sun, and The Journal American, they merged, creating The World-Journal-Tribune. A few months later, in the spring of 1967, that paper shut down, leaving the city with only three newspapers. The Daily Mirror had folded in 1963.

    Mr. Wolfe found himself at a fork in his career. While he was now out of a job, his first book, a collection of his articles with almost the same title as that first iconic Esquire piece, was enjoying critical and commercial success.

    He started freelancing, but leaving the newspaper business was not easy. “I always enjoyed writing for newspapers. Even if you write a bad story, nobody remembers the next day.”

    He was searching for a book idea. “I wanted to do a nonfiction book, sort of the way Truman Capote had done ‘In Cold Blood.’ There was an invitation on a desk” — someone else’s desk, with that person’s name on the invitation — “to a party for the Black Panthers,” R.S.V.P. only. Mr. Wolfe called the number on the card. “This is Tom Wolfe, and I accept.”

    It was the infamous fund-raiser for the Black Panthers, given by Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre, in their Park Avenue duplex penthouse. The apartment was wall-to-wall with the New York intelligentsia and artistic elite, giddily rubbing shoulders with the leadership and members of the Black Panther Party. “It was such a scene,” Mr. Wolfe said.

    Though he was looking for a book idea, he had a reporter’s bloodlust for news. “The old firebell rang and I couldn’t resist.” The result was “Radical Chic: The Party at Lenny’s,” published in New York Magazine on June 8, 1970, later to become part of a book, “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.”

    Mr. Wolfe’s uncanny talent for unpeeling the layers to get to the pith of a story propelled him through his 1979 book on the early days of the American space program, “The Right Stuff.”

    “The real reason I wrote it was, I had read in the original report [about the first seven  astronauts] that all of them were white, all were Protestant, four of them were ‘Juniors.’ ” That described Mr. Wolfe as well, though “I felt no more like an astronaut than I did a professional wrestler.”

    He collected material for his first novel, 1987’s “Bonfire of the Vanities,” in the tradition of the reporter in the trenches, going to criminal court to watch the arraignments. “I went about it the way I would on any piece of non-fiction. I went down to Manhattan. They said, ‘This is nothing. You should see the Bronx.’ ” Good advice.

    Mr. Wolfe is saddened and troubled by what he sees happening to newspapers today. The lack of sourcing in blogs, as well as in traditional news services, deeply disturbs him. “It’s not just the new media. There is no competition left. You go across the nation. There may be two newspapers in a town, but they’re all owned by the same company,” he said.

    Rather than send two reporters to cover a story, jointly owned papers will send one, if they send any at all. “That’s going to happen now, as the newspapers dissolve into online publications,” said the author. “There’s nobody covering the police today, nobody covering the education beat. Now they just cherry-pick their stories.”

    “There was less news coverage in the 1960s than there was 75 years earlier,” he continued. “That coverage will not exist at all unless somebody does something radical.”

    Mr. Wolfe is working now on another book, which he described as “the theory of evolution, 1858 to 2013.” He is examining how faculties in major American universities react when challenged by proponents of intelligent design.

    “Intelligent design is treated as if it were some sect of right-wing Christians railing against the theory of evolution,” said Mr. Wolfe. “I don’t pass judgment on it myself. I think it’s entertaining. I envision it as a short book.”

    Mr. Wolfe is very pleased with Mr. Auberjonois’s Tom Wolfe.

    “Rene approached me,” he said. “He had been asked to read something of mine on the West Side. He has a great voice and is a terrific actor. I’ve been to two of his readings.” Mr. Auberjonois, he joked, sounds so good as Tom Wolfe that Mr. Wolfe may do audio books only in the future.

    “The work itself has told me what this is about,” said Ms. Auberjonois. “It’s about transformation, the transformation of Tom Wolfe from journalist to novelist. The transformation of America.”

    Tickets range from $50 for prime orchestra seats, with a small discount for members, down to $30, again with a slight membership discount.

   Robert Hobbs, author of “Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects” published by M.I.T. Press in 2005, will speak on “Alice Aycock: How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts” tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum. Tickets are $10 and include museum admission.

    “Since the ’70s, Alice Aycock has created works that question the many ghosts inhabiting our contemporary world, particularly those involving electricity, physics, computers, constructed world views, and the mind/body dichotomy,” according to Dr. Hobbs. He will examine how these ghosts operate in her work, including one with the title “How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts.”

    Dr. Hobbs is a visiting professor at Yale and the chair of the Virginia Commonwealth University art history department with a specialty in both late modern and post-modern art.

    Preceding the talk will be the museum’s Jazz en Plein Air series from 4 to 6. The Ada Rovatti Band will perform, free with museum admission. Ms. Rovatti is a young saxophonist born in Italy. Her 2005 recording “Airbop” was nominated by “All about Jazz” as one of the top 10 CDs of the year.

    The museum is also seeking entries of short, non-commercial surf movies shot on location between Montauk and Westhampton for its “Atlantic Vibrations: Surf Movie Night” set for Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. Films should be no more than five minutes in length. They will be judged and compiled by Michael Halsband, a surfer and photographer, and Mike Solomon, an artist and surfer. Up to five films may be submitted online at parrishart.slideroom.com, no later than July 19. The submission fee is $10.

    You know it’s high season when Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater is booked every night, not to mention the galleries that are filled with exhibitions. Looking at the calendar, “Big Bad Wolfe,” a staged reading about the author Tom Wolfe by Rene Auberjonois, will take place tomorrow night. It is covered separately on page C5.  Then, on Saturday at 8 p.m., the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company will take over.

    The UCBTourCo focuses on long-form improv, and the cast is hand-picked from improv comedians in New York City and Los Angeles, who are said to represent the next wave of comedy superstars. Tickets are $20; $18 for members.

    Roger Rosenblatt, the author of 16 books and 6 Off Broadway plays, will be at Guild Hall on Sunday, at 11 a.m., to read and sign books. Mr. Rosenblatt’s most recent work is a memoir called “Kayak Morning.” Other works, which have been national best sellers, are “Unless It Moves the Human Heart,” “Making Toast,” “Rules for Aging,” and “Children of War,” which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. His first novel, “Lapham Rising,” was also a best seller.

    Mr. Rosenblatt, who teaches English and writing at Stony Brook Southampton, is well known on the South Fork. He lives in Quogue.

    Then, on Sunday evening, the doors will open for a screening of  “The Doors Live at the Bowl ’68,” which is usually seen as the band’s best performance on film. The concert, “Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” was recorded in 1968 but not released until 1987. A new version was released in October 2012. The digitally re-mastered film includes the previously lost performances of “Hello I Love You,” “Texas Radio and the Big Beat,” and “Spanish Caravan.” The screening is not only for Doors fans, but for those who would like to become more familiar with classic American rock. General admission  is $12, and $10 for members.

    A performance by a master of the slide quitar will take over on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in a program organized as a Crossroads Music Showcase. Kerry Kearney’s unique style, which is referred to as Psychedelta, contains an upbeat mix of American blues and roots with a personal mix created with his vintage, stock, and custom-made guitars. Mr. Kearney was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame in this year.

    Earlier in the week, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Neal Feinberg, a comedian and actor, will star in  his own a one-man show, in which he portrays 40 different characters. Written by Becky Mode and directed by Rob McCaskill, “Fully Committed” follows the story of a reservationist at the hottest restaurant in New York City. Mr. Feinberg is known for “Colt 40 Feinberg” from “The Howard Stern Show.”

    Looking ahead, Guild Hall will sponsor two programs on Friday, July 5. “Jurassic Park” will be screened outside at the Mulford Farm at 8:30 p.m. The tab is $5 and picnics and seating have been suggested.

    At the same time in the John Drew Theater, the second part of a documentary film on fracking, “Gasland, Part Two,” will be shown. Alec Baldwin will introduce the film as host of SummerDocs, a program sponsored by the Hamptons International Film Festival. The film’s director, James Fox, will answer questions following the screening.

    More than 100 singers and the members of the South Fork Chamber Orchestra will join together on Saturday to perform George Frideric Handel’s well-known Baroque masterpiece “Israel in Egypt” and Cantata 79 by J.S. Bach. The Choral Society of the Hamptons will team up with the Greenwich Village Singers in the performance. Both groups are directed by Mark Mangini, who will conduct. Suzanne Schwing, mezzo-soprano, and Mischa Bouvier, baritone, are known here from previous concerts with the Choral Society. Sara Paar will be the soprano.

    Second only to “Messiah” in popularity among Handel’s oratorios, “Israel in Egypt” is based on the Biblical story and dramatizes the struggle for freedom from slavery. The concert will feature those portions of the oratorio that describe the Exodus, as the music evokes drastic events ranging from the seven plagues to the parting of the Red Sea. The society’s president, Daniel Mc­Keever, commented, “This is a universally appealing work that hasn’t been performed here in years. We are thrilled to be presenting it, and think our audience will be, too.”

    The concert will take place at 7 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. A benefit dinner to follow at the Palm restaurant in East Hampton has been sold out.

    Tickets for the concert are $25 in advance, $35 at the door. Youth tickets are available for $10 in advance, and $15 at the door. Preferred-seating tickets are $75. Tickets can be purchased by going to the society’s Web site, choralsocietyofthehamptons.org, or by calling the executive director at 631-204-9402. They also are available at the Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor.

   The Bridgehampton Museum will open its second of two summer exhibits tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit, “Next Stop, Seaside Board,” re-enacts the boarding house era from the innkeeper’s perspective. Boarding houses began well before the railroad arrived on the East End and were an important part of Bridgehampton’s history. Julie Greene, the exhibit’s curator, will talk about the era during the opening.

    Guild Hall’s screening of “The Audience” tomorrow is sold out. The National Theatre Live presentation features Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in a series of imagined private meetings with prime ministers ranging from Winston Churchill to David Cameron.

    Despite persistent rumors, Ms. Mirren will not be attending the screening, nor was she ever slated to be there.

   All for the East End, a nonprofit that will raise money for other East End charitable organizations, will host its inaugural concert on Aug. 19 at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead. Nile Rodgers will headline the concert, dubbed the AFTEE Nile Rodgers Dance Party. Joining him will be Avicii, a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum Swedish D.J.

    Mr. Rodgers founded the band Chic, known for such hits as “Le Freak,” “We Are Family,” and “I’m Coming Out.” In a release, he predicted the concert, which is to be an annual event, will be the “greatest dance party the East End of Long Island has ever seen.”

    “We are very lucky to head out of the gate with such an amazing program produced by Nile Rodgers,” Myron Levine, AFTEE’s president and found­er, said in a release.

    The organization plans to distribute money to other nonprofits through a grant process managed and administered by the Long Island Community Foundation.

    Tickets to the Aug. 19 concert will cost $149, with a limit of four per person, but East End residents will have access to a limited number of East Ender tickets, offered at $50 apiece on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are available now online at aftee.org.

   The John Jermain Memorial Library is creating a special collection for the music of local artists and is looking for CD donations from musicians to add to its lending catalog of music. Eventually, the library plans to make its collection a searchable online archive available for music streaming.

    Eastern Long Island residents who would like their music included in the collection have been asked to contact Eric Cohen by phone at the library or by e-mail at [email protected].

   Hamptons House of Gardens in Southampton will host a comedy night on Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. featuring Mary Dimino and Meghan Hanley.

    Ms. Dimino is 2010 MAC Award winner for outstanding female comedian from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, and is known for her New York-Italian humor and attitude, according to a release. Ms. Hanley is a comedian, actor, and writer also from New York.

    Tickets cost $30 at the door and $25 in advance through Michelle Simmons at [email protected].