Arts

The new show at Lisa Perry’s Onna House features the work of six women artists working in a variety of materials and mediums in the search for beauty.

Leo Villareal, whose large-scale LED light installation is at Guild Hall, has been using subtly moving sequences of LED light to create monumental public artworks around the world for more than 20 years.

The 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival will open with “Nyad,” a narrative feature starring Annette Bening as Diana Nyad, the marathon swimmer who swam from Cuba to Florida at the age of 64.

“Joan Baez I Am a Noise” draws from Ms. Baez’s vast personal archive as well as extensive conversations with the singer and footage of her farewell tour to create a rich portrait of her personal and professional life.

The Hamptons Festival of Music will bring five orchestral events to East Hampton, starting with orchestral accompaniment to a silent Charlie Chaplin film, continuing with Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" at LongHouse, and concluding with three concerts at LTV Studios.

“Tales From the Guttenberg Bible” is a funny, fast-moving memoir of Steve Guttenberg’s rise to Hollywood fame, deepened by Mr. Guttenberg’s affection for his parents and sparked by three supporting actors who play dozens of characters.

The musical “Sammy and Me,” coming to Bay Street Theater, is in part a portrait of Sammy Davis Jr.’s music and his legacy, and in part Eric Jordan Young’s self-portrait as a young Black man (and fan of Davis) trying to break into the entertainment industry.

Paul Davis posters at Bay Street, solo shows at the Southampton African American Museum, Keyes Art, Lucore Art, and Grenning. Plus art, fashion, and wine at J. Mackey, the annual quilt show in Water Mill, new art barn in Bridgehampton, and more.

A busy week at the Church in Sag Harbor will feature Susan Lacy, a film producer-director, Janet Wallach, an author, and, for a dose of jazz, the Matt Wilson Quartet.

Markus Klinko's celebrity photos hold up a mirror to society, according to the photographer, whose work is at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton.

Opera master class and performance from Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp, Stephen Sills and David Netto at the historical society’s summer luncheon, Isaac Mizrahi onstage at Bay Street, classical piano at LongHouse, Broadway producers’ panel in Southampton.

Isaac Mizrahi, whose second act is as a cabaret performer, is up next in the Music Mondays series at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater.

James Brooks, an Abstract Expressionist painter who with his wife Charlotte Park was integral to the New York School and the East End art community, is having a career-spanning retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum.

“Celestial Garden,” a monumental LED artwork and soundscape by Leo Villareal, will provide an immersive experience for visitors to Guild Hall.

The three concerts of Music for Montauk’s summer music series will range from Brahms to shorter chamber pieces to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Puerto Rican music stylings.

The East Hampton Historical Society's Summer Lecture Luncheon will bring the interior designers Stephen Sills and David Netto to the Maidstone Club in East Hampton for a conversation next Thursday at 11 a.m.     

“Susan Wood: On Location,” an exhibition at the Sag Harbor Cinema, highlights the work of the magazine photographer on the sets of such iconic 1960s films as “Hatari!”, “Mirage,” and “Easy Rider.”

Group shows at Eric Firestone, Hauser & Wirth, and Ezra galleries, Berry Campbell Gallery pops up in Bridgehampton, Noel de Lesseps, Kan Seidel, Bob Tabor, and Lou Spitalnick in solo shows, new gallery at Gosman's Dock in Montauk.

South Asian music at Duck Creek in Springs, live reggae in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, piano from Hamptons Jazz Fest at LTV and the Parrish Art Museum.

The Hamptons Designer Showhouse has opened in a newly constructed house featuring the work of 20 interior designers over three floors with a focus on livability rather than high fashion.

Guild Hall’s summer benefit adds opera to the festive mix, plus Hamptons Jazz Fest at the Southampton Arts Center and the Parrish, a one-person play at the Montauk Library, and country and brass at the Rogers Library in Southampton.

Known for such films as “Diner,” “Cocoon,” and “Police Academy,” among dozens of others, Steve Guttenberg will star in his autobiographical play, “Tales From the Guttenberg Bible,” at Bay Street Theater.

A successful NFT release last week featured images captured from the floor of Jackson Pollock’s studio, sold as “phygital sets,” or limited-edition NFT artifacts paired with physical prints of the same images.

Ed Sheeran will be coming to the Stephen Talkhouse in the latest of SiriusXM’s private concerts, with only SiriusXM subscribers and trivia game participants eligible to win tickets.

Another busy week at the galleries, with everything from Peconic Bay Impressionism to hand-sewn felt bagels to a mycelium beehive chandelier to figures in animal masks, plus Strong-Cuevas, Christopher Engel, East End photographers, and more.

Playwrights’ Theatre of East Hampton returns to LTV with a riff on Chekhov, Joe Delia brings blues piano to the venue, and Jane Hastay, Peter Martin Weiss, and Darcey pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Two talks by artists represented in the “Artists on Boxing” exhibition, a program on boxing as therapy for Parkinson’s disease, and Middle Eastern music will keep The Church in Sag Harbor bobbing and weaving this week.

Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of a performance by Richie Havens on the outdoor stage at Gosman's Dock. Coming four years after Havens opened the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, it was a concert that none who were there are likely to forget.

Benefits for the Watermill Center, Wings Over Haiti, and the Perlman Music Program, film fest in Montauk, rock at the East Hampton Library, film program at Southampton Arts Center, choral singing workshop at Southampton Cultural Center.

The takeaways from a live recording of a podcast featuring Bobbi Brown at The Church in Sag Harbor are that sometimes even successful people, like a cosmetics mogul, can benefit from a change of direction, and that living a normal life well can be the greatest success of all.