Arts

“The Story of America: 1776-2026” at the Southampton Arts Center features 250 years of American political campaign material from the Museum of Democracy that illuminates this country’s history.

Classical piano in Southampton, English melodies from the Hamptons Festival of Music, Taylor Barton and G.E. Smith at the Talkhouse, an honor for Susan Wood, and a silent disco at Guild Hall.

A monumental foil sculpture by the renowned artist John Chamberlain will be installed on the front lawn of the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.

The Peter Marino Art Foundation reopens with exhibitions of artworks by Y.Z. Kami, Betty Parsons and Carla Accardi, and Robert Nava, and a display of Tiffany silver.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will launch a summerlong series featuring classic film noir from the 1940s and ’50s, and neo-noir works by such auteurs as Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, and the Coen brothers.

A new book by Christian John Wikane and Alice Harris celebrates the dance music of the 1970s with photographs of more than 100 artists and interviews with such icons as Donna Summer and Barry Gibb.

The Gibney Dance Company and Lucinda Childs will present a newly commissioned work in process by Childs at Guild Hall.

Gayle Feldman will be at The Church in Sag Harbor to talk about her biography of Bennett Cerf, and Francine Fleischer will present her photographs of an underground swimming hole in Mexico.

The Parrish Art Museum hosts two exhibiting artists and the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers.

Weaving workshop at LongHouse, Connie Fox solo at Tripoli, Abstract Expressionists and Black figurative artists at BlackBook, three at HaubrichArt, and group shows at White Room and Kramoris.

Jake Lear and the Kings at Guild Hall, Gilbert & Sullivan light opera at the East Hampton Library, classic and contemporary music at LTV, drag cabaret from OFVS, and a garden fair in Bridgehampton.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host a documentary about The New Yorker’s female cartoonists, a lumen printing workshop, and a talk about the Washington National Opera’s departure from the Kennedy Center.

East End Jazz will launch Tiny Toes and the Jazz Crew, an interactive concert series designed to bridge the gap between childhood playtime and the professional performing arts.

The current exhibition at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs features a remarkable collection of paintings by Keith Mayerson, who immersed himself in the lives and work of Elaine and Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

The Montauk Music Festival will bring nonstop music to the hamlet with four days of mostly free shows by a hundred acts.

An exhibition tour with Claire Watson at Guild Hall, 16 East End women at Clinton Academy, Leslee Stradford at Keyes Art, and an intergenerational show of female artists at Firestone in NoHo.

Peter Watrous, a jazz guitarist who curates music at the Arts Center at Duck Creek, will perform two sets of mostly Thelonious Monk tunes at the Sagaponack Farm Distillery.

Sanford Biggers’s solo show at the Parrish Art Museum features illuminated cloud sculptures, paintings and sculptures made from repurposed quilts, and a site-specific sand installation.

"The 39 Steps," a comic adaptation of the man-on-the-run thriller, will feature four actors playing multiple roles at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

Bay Street Theater will celebrate its 35th anniversary this summer with two world premieres, "Mister Halston" and "Bonkers in the Boroughs," and two musicals, "Cagney" and "Dear Evan Hansen."

Peter Dayton, an acclaimed Springs artist and designer, talks about his former life in a popular Boston punk band, 23 of whose songs from the late 1970s have been reissued by Wharf Cat Records.

This week: a documentary and comedy at Bay Street, "All My Sons" from London at Guild Hall, a book talk at the Parrish Art Museum, and Hopefully Forgiven will play at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor.

No Sailor, an indie-folk band, will premiere its new music video at the Sag Harbor Cinema.

The Church will host songs and stories from a Ross School senior, plus a Mother's Day sound bath by Daniel Lauter and an artists and makers night.

Solo shows for Scott Bluedorn and William Tarr, two painters at Sara Nightingale, and group shows at Ashawagh Hall and LTV Studios.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek will open a group show of camera-less and alternate process photography and a solo show of paintings and drawings inspired by memory and nature.

The next East Meets West Jazz Jam Session at the Southampton Cultural Center invites musicians and vocalists to improvise music as accompaniment to a program of silent film clips.

OLA’s Pachanga at Bay Street, opera days in Bridgehampton, Madoo lecture in Manhattan, piano recital at SCC, a play and auditions in Southampton, LTV benefit, choral auditions, and a garden lecture.

The Gary Cooper Film Festival at the Southampton Playhouse will feature four acclaimed films by the Oscar-winning actor, who had ties to Southampton.

The Church will host a talk Billy Baldwin, a children’s book author, a pinhole photography workshop, and a presentation by Elisabeth Biondi, the curator of its current exhibition.