Arts

Christopher Engel's artworks integrate collaged materials and references from India, China, the Renaissance, Buddhist deities, and alchemical symbols.

The summer benefit at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will feature food and drink, a live auction of artworks, and a performance by Kaoru Watanabe.

The architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi will be at LongHouse to discuss with Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, some of the problems faced by architects today.

The new exhibition at the Madoo Conservancy examines Sagaponack as a uniquely American village in which artists, writers, and farmers live side by side.

Coming to LTV are Montauk's Joe Delia with his blues piano and clips from films he has scored, and the cabaret stars Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock in "Hirschfeld's Broadway."

Rhonda Denet and the Silver Fox Strings Trio will bring the music of the female vocalists of Motown to the Montauk Library.

With three HBO comedy specials, five comic albums, and multiple television roles, Paula Poundstone's spontaneous wit will have the Bay Street Theater audience in stitches.

News from the Fireplace Project, Sean Scully talk at the Parrish, new installations at Watermill Center, East End Photographers at Water Mill Museum, open studio in Springs.

"True Value," Alice Hope's ambitious new site-specific installation at LongHouse, is the most recent of her projects using commonplace materials, among them magnets and can tabs, assembled in repetitive but resonant configurations.

James Patterson and Mike Lupica hit it off so well when they met four years ago that they have collaborated on six novels since then, most recently on "The Hamptons Lawyer."

LTV Studios will host performances by Liz Callaway, an award-winning singer and actress, and a jazz piano recital by Phil Markowitz.

Artists on film, marionette workshop, concerts on Shelter Island, at Duck Creek, and the Sag Harbor Masonic Temple, benefits at BHCCRC, the Parrish, and Folly Tree.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's summer series will feature celebrated works of the classical canon, two premieres, and a commission, all linked in some way with words.

LongHouse will host an evening of conversations about humanity's capacity for growth and healing, a bonsai workshop, and an exhibition of innovative garden containers.

Santi Debriano, an acclaimed jazz bassist, will bring his ensemble to The Church in Sag Harbor for a program rooted in global jazz traditions.

G.E. Smith, the guitarist and former bandleader on "Saturday Night Live," will be joined at Guild Hall by two other late-night bandleaders, Louis Cato and Paul Shaffer.

Solo shows for Claire Watson, Darius Yektai, Fitzhugh Karol, and Haim Mizrahi, Bryan Hunt talk at The Church, Ikebana workshop at WACH, a plethora of group shows.

Music for Montauk has invited four musicians from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music to perform a recital at East Hampton's Presbyterian Church.

Lauren Shooster has opened Shooster Arts & Literature in Sag Harbor, a gallery of fine art, antiques, and rare books from her own collection of artifacts.

The East Hampton Historical Society's annual Antiques and Design Show benefit will feature antiques, prints, art, furniture, and more from 50 dealers.

Lee Roy Reams, an actor, singer, and dancer, celebrates his friendship with Lauren Bacall, while the Django Festival Allstars pay tribute to the music of Django Reinhardt.

HIFF reveals festival poster, jazz and tango in Southampton, benefits for LongHouse, OLA, and Bay Street, Jake Lear brings the blues.

On the 50th anniversary of her father's famous novel, Caroline Doctorow has put together a multimedia event that illuminates her father, the novel, and how its themes resonate today more than ever.

Guild Hall will host a chamber music recital, a conference on landscape architecture and interior design, a visit from the Dogist and lots of canines, and a talk about "Saturday Night Live."

The Fireplace Project in Springs will open its final season there with solo exhibitions of work by Lana Kova and Curtis Kulig.

Joy Behar's new comedy, "My First Ex-Husband," brings "razor sharp wit, charm, and charisma" to Bay Street Theater.

The work of six abstract painters is coming to Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

Artist talk in Springs, analyzing Bourgeois's spiders, classic car recreations at the Parrish, outdoor sculpture in Southampton, painting classes, blue-chip artists in new exhibition space.

An 18-foot-tall elephant balancing on its trunk, a horse made of mud and sticks, and a 12-foot spider are only three of the more than 50 animal sculptures assembled for "The Ark" at The Church in Sag Harbor.

Outdoor screenings from HamptonsFilm, jazz duo at Montauk Library, comedy at Southampton Cultural Center, Ma's House benefit, jazz night at the Masonic Temple.