Arts

“Love Letters” in Southampton, a lecture series at Madoo, highlighting Sag Harbor’s Eastville community at the Sag Harbor Cinema, and more.

Billy Joel’s “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first new song in 17 years, has drawn raves from a cross-section of South Fork listeners, among them WLIW-FM’s Brian Cosgrove, Cliff Young, a music journalist, and Mark Schiavoni, a guitarist for the Montauk Project.

“The Finest Kind” at Clinton Academy features photographs by Doug Kuntz and others, who captured the vanishing way of life of the South Fork’s baymen for the project that became “Men’s Lives.”

Love and passion return to Springs, birthday cakes for Romany Kramoris, plein-air painters in Bridgehampton, an exhibition tour at Southampton Arts Center, Linda Stein is solo in Manhattan, and American artists in Paris at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Museum.

The Moondogs cover the Beatles in Sag, a dance party at LTV, pop and funk at the Talkhouse, jazz at the temple, a disco dance party, a Rush tribute, Taylor Dayne in Riverhead, and more.

"Performance Con: Take One," a collaborative work-in-progress by Tess Dworman and Mel Elberg, will take place at The Church in Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

Appearing at The Church in Sag Harbor this weekend are D.J. Spooky, a multimedia artist, Bruce Wolosoff, a composer and pianist, and Dan Rizzie, a painter and printmaker.

A LongHouse lecture with Michael Arad and Paul Goldberger, landscape therapy with Edwina von Gal at Guild Hall, That Motown Band at Bay Street, drumming and jazz in Sag Harbor, a new single from Taylor Barton, the British invasion in Riverhead, and a grant application from East End Arts are in this week's cultural rundown.

“Look at the Book,” a new show at the Southampton Arts Center, features work by 33 artists and just as many different approaches to books and the written word.

The Church’s current print show highlights the art and craft of printmaking, focusing not only on the artists and printmakers of the South Fork, but displaying the tools, blocks, stones, plates, and states that go into the production of their work.

Sag Harbor’s Jonathan Morse has worn many hats, including architect, real estate developer, and motorcycle and sailboat racer, but for the past 35 years he has focused on photography, especially portraiture, as well as art book publishing and fine arts printing.

Shinnecock stories at Ma’s House, celebrating Frank Sofo in Springs, a sculptural valentine in Southampton, abstract collages at Estia’s Little Kitchen, Warhol screen tests on the Lower East Side, Roman watercolors at Marymount Manhattan College, 19th-century paintings at Rogers Memorial.

A program about madness and performance at The Church, a documentary about a jazz legend at the Parrish, All Star Comedy at Bay Street, and more.

John Slattery and Talia Balsam, who played a married couple in "Mad Men," and their son, Harry Slattery, will star together in “The Subject Was Roses” at Bay Street Theater this summer.

Her night job is dining room manager at Nick and Toni’s, but her day job is making paintings and watercolors capturing the atmosphere of the East End.

From its holdings of more than 200 works by Fairfield Porter, the Parrish Art Museum has selected 26 paintings and prints for its new exhibition, “Across the Avenues,” with the streets, brownstones, and neighborhoods of New York City as subjects.

Artists and plant experts talk flowers at Grenning Gallery, Lee Krasner and Dan Christensen in Chelsea, David Salle in Nyack, N.Y., paintings by Jim Durfee in Sag Harbor, Paul Thek goes to Pace.

Jazz from the Azar Lawrence Quintet in Southampton, Hopefully Forgiven and Mean Machine at the Talkhouse, the Roses Grove Band and jazz at the Masonic Temple, an AC/DC tribute band in Riverhead, and jazz at Pierre’s restaurant.

Boots on the Ground Theater will send a valentine to the community with "Love Letters," A.R. Gurney’s oft-produced play, at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Hector Leonardi continues to experiment with paint fragments on canvases, where the subject is the capacity of color itself.

Sag Harbor Cinema will raise money for a local filmmaker and gardening tips from the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

Amy and John Wickersham's scarf-designing project reflects each of their artistic inclinations, as well as their comfortable 42-year marriage.

Vintage maritime photos at Clinton Academy, Guild Hall on the road, Afrofuturism exhibit at Bay Street, Jeremy Dennis in Bridgehampton, Syn Martinez solo at Mark Borghi, a printmaking program at The Church, and much more.

A local reggae band takes the stage at Bay Street, Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads in Riverhead, and jazz performances in Sag Harbor and at the Parrish.

South Fork cultural organizations are celebrating Black History Month with a variety of cultural programs, ranging from multimedia presentations about Black comedians and Sidney Poitier to a benefit performance by That Motown Band, jazz concerts, an Afrofuturism art exhibition, and more.

Hamptons Art Network presentation and jazz concert at The Church, comedy at the Southampton Cultural Center, roundtable gardening discussion in Bridgehampton.

Bay Street Theater will host a rockabilly dance party with Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, and launch three new classes.

The multipart exhibition “Artists Choose Parrish,” for which 41 contemporary artists selected work from the museum’s collection to pair with their own, yielded a plethora of fascinating juxtapositions across styles, mediums, and decades.

Gerald Brann and Yellow Brick Road, an Elton John tribute band, and three female comedians "of a certain age" will be at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.

Scott Bluedorn on Brooks and Park at Leiber Collection, window installation at Duck Creek, Ryan Wallace in Chelsea, group show at Kathryn Markel, talk on Dennis Oppenheim at the Parrish, Eric Firestone and Onna House in Florida.