Arts

HamptonsFilm's SummerDocs series concludes its 13th season on Saturday with a screening of “Lily Topples the World.” The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers with HamptonsFilm's co-chairman Alec Baldwin and its artistic director David Nugent.

After an absence of more than a decade, Bernard Goldberg is back in East Hampton with a new gallery just off Newtown Lane specializing in American fine and decorative arts from the first half of the 20th century.

Shakespeare, music and film, the tell-all as told by celebrities, an artists and writers showcase, a salute to Tony Walton, and a dance party are all in the mix this week.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will return this year beginning on Oct. 7 with a fully in-person schedule of events and the opening night film "The First Wave" by Matthew Heineman.

Eighty artists are contributing boxes for the 20th anniversary iteration of East End Hospice's Box Art Auction on Aug. 28.

While going on to write five novels, a book of short stories, and a memoir of his early life, Frederic Tuten never lost his passion for the visual arts. It wasn't until he was 60, though, that he picked up some colored pencils and began once more to draw.

How much you enjoy 'Camelot' will have a lot to do with your taste for classic Broadway-era nostalgia. If this solid, well-performed version seems weighed down, it may have to do with dragging a slightly fusty musical into contemporary relevance.      

New shows from Amagansett to Southampton include work by Hans Noe, Wayne Magrin, Spencer Finch, Peter Spacek, and many others, plus talks at Dia and Pollock-Krasner House, and more

The new and familiar mix it up in this week's live music schedules with jazz and rock, and the return of Dawes and Southern rock to the South Fork.

A look back on one of Broadway's biggest box-office smashes, "The Producers," on its 20th anniversary will be the centerpiece of a weekend of theatrical events presented with Susan Stroman beginning Friday, Aug. 27, at Guild Hall. On Sunday "Tree Confessions" will be performed outside.

David Alpern, a former Newsweek senior editor, looks back on the many pleasures of a trip to Morocco, among them an unexpected meeting at a desert campsite with G.E. Smith and Taylor Barton.

Jazz returns to Gosman's Dock with Billy Hart-- a drummer "who swings beyond belief" -- joining the Bill O'Connell Quartet for a Hamptons Jazz Fest performance on Sunday.

Dinner parties for Bay Street Theater, chamber music at the Parrish, Jazz from Southampton to Montauk

Bach “had an appreciation for the pleasures of being alive,” said Alan Alda in his introduction for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's first summer concert. “He was also an obstinate, headstrong grouch who didn’t mind insulting musicians he didn’t admire.”

Guild Hall will celebrate its 90th birthday with a silent disco, a performance by members of the New York City Ballet, a soundwalk, a drip painting workshop, and a popup performance by the Hampton Ballet School.

The Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Weekend will feature a dance party with D.J. James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, a dinner honoring Tomashi Jackson, and a family party with the National Circus Project.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center’s annual Marburger Memorial Lecture will take place virtually this year, on Sunday at 5 p.m. via Zoom. Manuel Borja-Villel, the director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, will discuss Picasso’s 1937 painting “Guernica,” the artist’s response to the bombing of that city during the Spanish Civil War.

The painting was entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1939 at the artist’s request, and it remained there until it returned to Spain in 1981.

Recent paintings by John Alexander, a 26-acre art ranch in Montauk, Picasso's "Guernica" reinterpreted, abstraction at Phillips, NFTs in Bridgehampton, and more

The Hamptons Jazz Fest continues with performances in Southampton and Montauk, Vanessa Trouble at Ram's Head, Nancy Atlas at Surf Lodge, and more

Robert Longo's new exhibition of monumental charcoal drawings at Guild Hall draws from both Abstract Expressionism and recent events.

An opera about Jackson Pollock at Duck Creek, Senegalese films at Sag Cinema, classical opera under the stars at LongHouse, and the birth of disco at the Eastville Community Historical Society

A busy week at Guild Hall will include a talk with the photographer Ralph Gibson, Jazz for the Center, the Hampton Dance Project performing on a 20-acre farm, and Edward Albee's "At Home at the Zoo."

Over the course of more than five decades, Frank Gillette has produced a profound and influential body of work in video and photography that has opened a window on the possibilities and dangers of technology.

An exhibition at Christie's new space in Southampton covers the full range of Grace Hartigan's career.

A conversation between the landscape architect Perry Guillot and the designer David Netto will be the highlight of the East Hampton Historical Society's summer lunch and lecture at the Maidstone Club.

A group of architecture and design professionals discussed virtually last week the threat to classic examples of mid-20th-century architecture on the East End.

Many East End galleries will be on hand at the Market Art + Design Fair, which is returning to Bridgehampton for its 11th iteration.

Artists for Haiti benefit returns, a show house opens in Sag Harbor, and gallery shows feature Jack Youngerman, Betty Parsons, Artist-made jewelry, Andy Warhol, and many more.

Jazz Fest features the Hector Martignon Banda Grande and a tribute to Chick Corea, plus more jazz at the Parrish, Joan Osborn at the Talkhouse, and rock from Shelter Island to Montauk

Modern dance in a Springs garden, Robert Downey Sr.'s "Putney Swope," and Mike Birbiglia's fifth comic curtain call at Guild Hall