Arts

The first weekend of summer brings benefits for the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, LongHouse Reserve, the Southampton Arts Center, Amber Waves and the Feed Foundation, and Project Most.

A new gallery in Springs, solo shows at Halsey McKay and Grenning, East End photographers at Ashawagh, artists’ talk at The Church, Sean Scully at LongHouse, and art fairs in Water Mill and East Hampton.

The Parrish Art Museum is opening a survey of paintings by Tony Bechara, who developed new modes of abstraction and led the board of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years.

Shows at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs feature process-driven abstractions by Jorge Rios and Brent Richardson’s surreal, dynamic paintings whose forms threaten to fly off the canvas.

While water is the obvious theme in “Splash” at the Women's Art Center of the Hamptons, underlying the artworks are expressions of individuality and joy.

Norm Lewis, a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-nominated actor and vocalist, will inaugurate the Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea cabaret series at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

“Cagney the Musical” will bring one the screen’s most iconic stars to life at Bay Street in the Sag Harbor theater’s first big dance show in years.

Garden Market at Madoo, opera at the Leiber Collection, LongHouse Reserve to host a Pride party, and a string quartet on Shelter Island.

Guild Hall will host a solo dance performance by Lloyd Knight, a celebration by Marc Shaiman of his new memoir, and a panel discussion about the idolatry of growth.

Joe Garsetti will bring magic and illusion to LTV with two performances Saturday, and Dan Welden will be there Sunday to unveil his new sculpture.

Coming to The Church is “This Land: Considering the American Landscape,” a show of artistic responses to the nation’s landscapes ranging from the Hudson River School to the present.

Steven Kasher’s “Memoir of a Collection: Finding Meaning Through Art” features not only his eclectic and personal collection, but also the people behind the images, among them John Chamberlain, Lou Reed, and Gunter Grass.

Some highlights of the summer’s live music on the South Fork include Steve Earle and Dawes at the Talkhouse, Brandi Carlile at the Montauk Lighthouse, Lyle Lovett at the Clubhouse, and Snoop Dogg at the Surf Lodge.

Lambrecht and Kendrick at the Drawing Room, Matthew Satz at the Pollock-Krasner House, abstract painting at Ashawagh Hall, flowers at the Depot Gallery, and a lecture on John Singer Sargent in Southampton.

Jill Moser will be at LongHouse Reserve for readings from her image/text catalog, “Talking Pictures: Collaborations.”

Tuba quartet at Montauk Library, Flag Day honored at Southampton Arts Center, three music programs at the Masonic Temple, dance at the Watermill Center, and a Jeff Koons poster for the Playhouse.

“Cruce de Caminos (Crossroads),” an original theater production developed and performed by members of Long Island’s Latino community, will premiere at Guild Hall.

Ross Watts, showing at the Madoo Conservancy, works obsessively across a range of materials and mediums that are linked by a strong conceptual underpinning.

Sanford Biggers’s solo show at the Parrish Art Museum reflects a multifaceted practice that combines materials, processes, and cultural symbolism.

Weekend classes at the Art Barge, artist talks in Bridgehampton and Southampton, four artists at Romany Kramoris, and a group show of “earthly delights” in Amagansett.

"Fresh Paint" at the Parrish Art Museum features a new mixed-media diptych by Emmi Whitehorse that reflects the vastness of northern New Mexico.

National Theatre Live at Guild Hall, a Jazz Age celebration in Southampton, Writers and Artists showcase in Barnes Landing, Sticks and Stones Comedy, open call from HTC, and Rebel Elle at the Masonic Temple.

LongHouse Reserve will host two talks this weekend, “A Tour of English Gardens” and “The Alpha and Omega of Craft.”

Hamptons JazzFest has announced its 2026 edition, with performances by the Harlem Gospel Choir, the Bill O’Connell Latin Jazz Express, and the Conrad Herwig Quintet.

Summer Dinner Theater, The Church’s annual benefit, will offer cocktails, dinner, and a performance by Martha Wainwright, the renowned singer-songwriter.

Keith Mayerson and Ross Bleckner at Pollock-Krasner House, design salon in Wainscott, art, photos, and design at Shooster, a group show at Keyes Art, and glass works in Montauk.

The Bridgehampton Museum will host a reading of essays by Heather Buchanan, Marilee Foster, Brianna A. Hernandez, Jonathan Shoemaker, Tracey Toomey McQuade, and Eli Zuzovsky.

Guild Hall’s summer theater programs will feature icons such as the New York City Ballet, John Waters, G.E. Smith, Itzhak Perlman, and Padma Lakshmi, and “new voices” in dance, music, theater, comedy, and literature.

The Leiber Collection will open with three new exhibitions: “Judith and Gerson Leiber: A Passion for Fashion,” “Gerson Leiber: An Inexplicable Light,” and “Garden of Friends: Ode to the Sea.”

The Bridgehampton Museum will open two exhibitions, “What We Carry: Memory and Migration,” an installation of artworks, photographs, and artifacts, and “Uncharted Waters,” paintings by Mark Seidenfeld.