Arts

This is a story about the spiritual inhabitants of places where you might expect them — the Rogers Mansion and the Thomas Halsey Homestead, which are part of the Southampton History Museum — and a place you would not: the East Hampton Library.

He may be most beloved as celluloid’s eternal youth in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the 1986 John Hughes film that never ages no matter how dated the references and fashion. Yet the Amagansett part-timer Matthew Broderick has proven himself a flexible and consummate actor in the years since in many featured and walk-on roles in film, theater, and television, including one of his biggest star turns on Broadway and then in the movie version of “The Producers.”

Kenny Schachter has built a career on being the ultimate art world insider/outsider. He oscillates between being a dealer, lecturer, and art market chronicler, a position that has made him a celebrity in some circles, predominantly for his writing for Artnet News from a home base in London.

Elissa Mott Derry took a painting she thought was painted by Thomas Moran to the the East Hampton Historical Society's appraisal day. The result was surprising.

Viewing Naama Tsabar’s pieces merely as colorful felt sculptures, shaped and complemented by piano string, would ignore at least 50 percent of the work’s content.

Barthélémy Toguo, an artist from Cameroon, will take over some of the Parrish's galleries and spaces this year with "The Beauty of Our Voices," this year's Platform exhibition.

A new show of the Pollock-Krasner House's permanent collection will include artworks by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and others.

“Evita,” which will begin previews at Bay Street Theater on Tuesday, addresses issues as relevant today as they were in mid-20th-century Argentina.

A Manhattan auctioneer claims he has unearthed six Willem de Kooning works from an abandoned storage locker in New Jersey. David Killen purchased the contents of the unit for $15,000 and says the finds could range in value from $10,000 to $10 million.

“SPF-18,” a coming-of-age story and tribute to teen films of the '80s and '90s, will screen on Sunday at the Southampton Arts Center.

Will Friedwald, a writer and music critic, will discuss Frank Sinatra with Bill Boggs on Saturday at the East Hampton Library.

Caroline Doctorow and her band, the Ballad Makers, will perform tunes from “the American Songbook and other stories” on Saturday.

Functional art and a preview cocktail party have been added to an old favorite event of the summer season.

Bobby Collins, who left a career as an executive at Calvin Klein to pursue a career as a full-time stand-up comedian, will share his comedic observations on Saturday.

Peter Marino took a few Warhols given to him by the artist into a world class art collection on view beginning Saturday at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series features speakers from a wide range of disciplines, including a poet, a playwright, a composer, and a professor of mathematics and economics.

A celebration of the lives and works of Judith and Gerson Leiber will be held on Saturday afternoon at the Leiber Collection in Springs.

Bruce Willis, Brooke Adams, Michael Nouri, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin are among the stars who will be out this week at Guild Hall.

Saul Steinberg at Drawing Room; group show at R. J. Steele; Alice Hope in D.C.; "Tiny People" at the Shed, and more

On Aug. 8, Zachary Lazar, Sarah Koenig, and Garnette Cadogan will meet at Guild Hall to discuss the American criminal justice system and mass incarceration.

Louis Schanker isn’t one of the first to come to mind when thinking of the grand artistic names of the mid-20th century on the South Fork, but perhaps he should be.

Only a few tickets remain for the inaugural Southampton Arts Center's first Architecture and Design Tour, a benefit event including a lecture and docent-led tours of Stanford White's buildings in Southampton.

A 1993 discovery of an industrial musical recording set Steve Young on a years-long treasure hunt for other records of these Broadway-style productions made for executives and sales forces of major corporations.

Stories — sung or spoken, from the living and the dead — will figure in two programs at Guild Hall this week.

The Montauk Library will host “The Housewives’ Cantata Reboot,” a free cabaret concert, on Wednesday.

The Southampton Historical Museum is presenting a lecture series that looks back to various manifestations in Southampton of the Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

“Summer Roses VIII: Love in the Garden of Dreams,” a classical concert, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.

Oh, how I wish I’d known the photographer Susan Wood during the "Mad Men" days of the ’60s, when I was a very young reporter at The New York Post and she was a very young freelance photographer.

Joel Perlman and Karl Klingbiel at Ille; Alan Vega at Boo-Hooray; Simphiwe Ndzube and Cassi Namoda at Harper's Books; Basquiat film in Sag Harbor, and more

Hadley Vogel's eclectic background and interests include art making, exhibition space management, teaching preschool, and—in keeping with her father’s line of work—bookbinding. Her attempts to unify these metiers is already generating new hybrids.