Arts

Hamptons Whodunit, a four-day festival devoted to mystery and true crime, will take place in East Hampton Village from April 13 through 16 at various venues and feature dozens of authors, escape room-style challenges, a real-life crime scene bus tour, and even a "Who Killed the Mayor?" game.

Creative healing, opera and theater screenings, classical piano, feminine fire, and multiple tribute bands, this week.

The HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab will return to East Hampton from April 14 to 16 with three screenplays to be polished by three mentors.

As part of a continuous program of pocket exhibitions focused on its collection, the Museum of Modern Art will open a gallery devoted to John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem project on Friday, April 7. 

A daylong conference on creativity at The Church on Saturday will bring several leaders in ideas and arts together for presentations and panels on Saturday. Plus, a poetry workshop and new resident artists there.

Floating pictures, a weekend "Sundown" at Madoo, Montauk artists, touring a collection of East End artists, and three North Fork painters in Sag Harbor.

Rebecca Edana and Amy Kirwin dish about their show “Two Jews Making Food” and how it went from Facebook Live to LTV Studios, survived a pandemic, and gained its first “super fan.”

Nanette Carter will discuss her artwork at The Church, and two painters-in-residence will open their studios there.

For former marketing executive Patrick J. Peters III, the silver lining of a traumatic struggle with long Covid was his life-changing discovery of salvation through painting.

Classical piano and a dance party at The Church, Hamptons Jazz Fest in Southampton, stand-up comedy at Bay Street, actors’ monologues in Montauk, garden talks at Marders, and musical variety in Riverhead.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with a program of whimsical music.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's spring concerts will feature the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, a program of piano for four hands, and a concert highlighting two violas.

Miriam Schapiro in NoHo, paintings and ceramics at Harper’s, nature and migration at Halsey McKay, abstraction vs. figuration at White Room, Dan Welden as inspiration, Linda Stein far and near.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company dramatizes a real-life conflict between accuracy in journalism and literary license.

The Jam Session brings top-tier musicians and enthusiastic crowds to Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple every Tuesday night.

Concert at LTV, networking at East Hampton Library, open studios at Watermill Center, architecture film at SAC, brass band at the Presbyterian Church, music by female composers at Rogers Library, and tribute bands in Sag Harbor and Riverhead.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company finds both tension and laughs in a true story about the clash between poetic license and “nothing but the facts.”

A concert of world music by Albino Mbie and a discussion about the importance of public space by Setha Low are coming to The Church.

Jose Campos’s woodcut figures, Charles Waller’s “Bridal Suite,” Joel Mesler’s “Rabbis,” Leo Villareal’s “Nebulae,” group shows at Harper’s, Oscar Molina, LTV, Southampton Cultural Center, and an artists’ panel in Southampton

A new Parrish Art Museum exhibition celebrates Latin migrant workers with colorful wooden figures, plus a talk about Frida Kahlo with the artist's grandniece and the museum's director.

An open rehearsal at The Church, Madoo talks pair landscape architects with architects, rock at the Suffolk Theater, blues from Jake Lear at the Masonic Temple, and Judy Carmichael strides at Lincoln Center.

Coming to Bay Street: Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning play that blends Chekhovian characters into a contemporary comedy.

Assembled from the floors, walls, and tables of his studio, Matthew Kirk’s transformational artworks, now at Halsey McKay, assume shapes that refer to natural phenomena and man-made objects.

Sculpture and fresco at Keyes Art, printmaking workshops coming to The Church, botanical paintings at Estia’s Little Kitchen, Toni Ross weavings in NoHo, Cornelia Foss in Manhattan, and Paton Miller will open his studio.

A mini-retrospective of films by Douglas Sirk, whose 1950s Hollywood melodramas have influenced many important filmmakers, will be at the Sag Harbor Cinema, along with paintings by Sabina Streeter that have been inspired by his films.

An artist, award-winning chef, and longtime curator at LongHouse Reserve, Wendy Van Deusen has launched the Women's Art Center of the Hamptons to support women "thinkers and makers."

The Southampton History Museum is showing "gilded icons" from Samuel L. Parrish's collection of secular and religious copies from the 19th century.

Gene Casey and the HooDoo Loungers will headline a concert at Bay Street for the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey.

"Women of Soul" will bring Mama Lee and Rose Lawler to Bay Street, along with Dawnette Darden and the HooDoo Loungers. Ms. Darden will return for a tribute to Prince next weekend.

Donnamarie Barnes to talk and Bruce Wolosoff to perform at The Church, Manhattan lectures from LongHouse and Madoo, acting classes at Bay Street, tips for preparing for spring gardening, Fantasy Girl Bands to battle virtually, sustainable architecture webinar, and jazz at the Masonic Temple.