Dianne Blell photographs beauty: the beauty of ideal love, the beauty of the broken and ruined, and the beauty of art history.

The Sag Harbor Cinema’s final pre-opening film series pays tribute to moviegoing as a collective experience, and to the theaters where cinematic adventures unfold.

Now in its 15th year, Tripoli Patterson’s “Thanksgiving Collective” exhibition is a certifiable holiday tradition with now more than 50 artists on view in an oversized industrial shed in Wainscott.

Gene Casey will appear for a rare free showcase at the East Hampton Library on Saturday, playing original tunes and classic country and rock covers.

Open studio and rehearsal day at Watermill Center on Saturday and swinging into Christmas with the vocal group Duchess at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Ille Arts launches its closing show on Saturday, with other openings at Folioeast, RJD Gallery, and MM Fine Art.

Now in its 12th year, Hamptons Doc Fest continues to grow with a new venue, the Southampton Arts Center, new awards and a first-class line up of films.

Kathryn Szoka and Maryann Calendrille, who own Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, are on a first-name basis with one of their favorite poets, Emily Dickinson.

There is something loose and special about the Sag Harbor art gallery community, which can treat its art shows as intuitive and impromptu affairs. Often an open forum, it is not unusual for artists and curators to join the spaces in a last-minute collaboration.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons has assembled a variety of joyful music drawn from the 19th century to the present for its holiday concert, “ ’Tis the Season: Offerings of Celebration and Renewal Old and New,” which will have two performances on Sunday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Seven South Fork galleries and scores of East End artists will be in the mix at Miami art week this year.

Galleries showing small works for holiday shoppers include Grenning and Romany Kramoris, and a Long Island artists show further west.