Arts

Hamptons Film's SummerDocs series returns to Guild Hall with three films highlighting 1960s Black music and culture, a controversial Leonardo da Vinci painting, and the world's greatest domino toppler.

New shows at Borghi, Tripoli, and MM Fine Arts, new galleries from the city, a talk about Pollock and performance art, and "Whimsy" in Southampton.

Lynn Blue Band at the Talkhouse, the Sturdy Souls at the Montauket and Surf Lodge, Sunset Fridays return to Wolffer, the Lone Sharks at the Clubhouse, music on Shelter Island, and more

Old East Hampton captured and restored on film, an online playwriting seminar, and a garden talk

"John Little: Home Again" opens at the Art Center at Duck Creek on Saturday. The micro survey of paintings dates from 1948, the year Little purchased the farm.

"Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks" examines the world's waterways as the network all of history has traveled.

LongHouse Reserve's container-design competition, "Planters: On and Off the Ground," will return for its 10th iteration on June 19.

Did Terrie Sultan consider retirement after she stepped down as director of the Parrish Art Museum? Not a chance.

Surf, summer, and swimming pools figure in gallery shows, Pollock-Krasner Foundation winners exhibit online, and Crush Curatorial is now Hesse Flatow.

Live music in the clubs and elsewhere from all over the East End

"Becoming Dr. Ruth" is a one-woman show, and a tour de force for Tovah Feldshuh. Ms. Feldshuh has the voice and the mannerisms of her subject down cold, and she also inhabits Dr. Ruth as a living, breathing person. 

A group of Chris Kelly's "Interiors" painted over the last 18 months and some of his sculptures, all based on the golden ratio, but deconstructed, are on view at Colm Rowan Fine Art in East Hampton.

The Retreat offers a star-studded benefit, environmental documentaries in Southampton, and a weaving workshop at the Watermill Center

A.R. Gurney's play "Sylvia" mostly succeeds as a funny, insightful look at modern relationships, driven by fine actors, even if it runs a bit long.

Hamptons Jazz Fest 2021 will span July, August, and September from Montauk to Southampton, featuring some of jazz's most distinguished players from around the world in more than 50 concerts, most of which will be free.

Live and in-person performances are returning to the Bay Street Theater, both in the theater itself and in its outdoor courtyard, which will be transformed into an immersive video performance space.

An Art Apart repeat coming soon, new exhibitons at galleries such as Drawing Room, Harper's, Studio 11, and Grenning, plus art-related film, talks, and more.

The Lone Sharks take over the Talkhouse, Kate Usher and the Sturdy Souls at the Surf Lodge, checking out the Clubhouse, and the Jam Session Radio Hour

In addition to brand-new blockbusters, silent films, retrospectives, documentaries, Hollywood classics, family matinees, and tributes to Black and Latino film, the weekend will see the opening of the third floor and its Green Room, a members’ lounge and outdoor terrace with panoramic views over Sag Harbor.

Kevin McCann is channeling his friendship with Peter Beard in a documentary in progress, tentatively titled "Montauk: A Playground at the Very Limit of Creation." The film finds its center through the windmill Beard brought to his property in 1973.

One major addition to the Herrick Park summer schedule is a series of free outdoor movie screenings from Hamptons Film.

"Down and Dirty" is a two-artist show of sculptures made for the floor. The two artists, Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne, were not brought together randomly, but rather as a direct result of their friendship and similar aesthetic and material affinities.

Chris Kelly, an East Hampton native who recently returned to live here full time after many years in Brooklyn, will show abstract paintings created during the last year and a half with oil paint and pencil on canvas. 

Guild Hall's 90th summer season, launching this weekend, is a bounty of plays, readings, comedy, music, dance, conversations, and film screenings, all of which will take place outdoors.

An explosion of new exhibitions to greet the summer from museums, galleries. and pop-ups spanning the South Fork.

Salon series of concerts to be livestreamed on Friday and a film on plastic pollution in Southampton.

Guild Hall is celebrating the spirit of hope for a new season with a virtual reading of poems of rebirth and creativity by a star-studded roster of actors, and an outdoor concert of romantic boleros, jazz, funk, and Latin chill.

A new show at Madoo, East End Photographers at Ashawagh, Enoc Perez shows and tells, and more

Upcoming shows at the Talkhouse, music and comedy at the Clubhouse, and more

More than a year after it was first scheduled to open, A.R. Gurney’s play “Sylvia,” a comedy about the impact of an adopted stray dog on an empty-nest marriage, will open next Thursday at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.