Arts

The Springs Invitational kicks off Friday at Ashawagh Hall, Lee Ufan at Pace, new shows at Harpers, "Long Island Creatures," photographs of Hamptons beaches, and more.

It's a jazz explosion, with concerts across the East End, plus Hopefully Forgiven at Sag Pizza, Inda Eaton at East Hampton's Main Beach, and Billy Bob Thornton at the Talkhouse.

One-woman performance traces the rise of Shirley Chisholm from humble origins to political heights.

"The Lost Leonardo" unpacks the complicated story of a "found" Leonardo painting that may or may not be the real thing and why that doesn't seem to matter in the end.

Hundreds of affordable artworks will be on offer in Guild Hall's Clothesline Art Sale and benefit -- inside and outside, in person and on its website.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will be back onstage and in person from Aug. 4 to Aug. 22, returning to some of its favorite venues.

A discussion of mid-century modernist architecture in the Hamptons, the Montauk Film Festival will return, plus jazz, live theater, and a silent disco are on the entertainment horizon.

A two-part Black Film Festival at the Parrish Art Museum will feature films about the impact on Black communities of gentrification, depression, and self-doubt.

"Get Dancing" at Guild Hall will celebrate the choreography of the late Andy de Groat, a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson, who will take part in a panel discussion about the early years of downtown performance.

Jeannette Seaver's five-decade career in publishing has been marked by an unswerving commitment to discovering new voices and standing against censorship.

Two exhibitions of work by East End artists, Charles Manion of Montauk and Jennifer Cross of Springs, will open at the Arts Center at Duck Creek on Saturday.

Yung Jake's Nerf guns at Tripoli, Christmas in the Shed, paintings by Grace Hartigan at Christie's, and new work by Candace Hill Montgomery at Fireplace Project are among this week's gallery highlights.

Jazz is alive from Southampton to Montauk, the HooDoo Loungers will bring New Orleans to Sagaponack, and Judy Collins and Steve Earle will play the Talkhouse, as live music continues its comeback on the East End.

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will perform "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged" starting Thursday at Herrick Park in downtown East Hampton.

"Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks," is a meditation on the power and peril of the sea, with paintings crossing the boundaries of realism and hellscape.
 

Morris Goldman and SafroJazz at the Parrish, Max Blagg reading at Duck Creek

Community Day at the Water Mill Center will feature a dance rehearsal, hand-drumming workshops, outdoor artwork, a scavenger hunt, and more.

Guild Hall is celebrating its Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award-winners with a conversation between Laurie Anderson and Julian Schnabel and a night of wit and insights from the writer Tom Wolfe.     

Name a centuries-old monument here, or windmill, or house, and the odds are that Robert Hefner had a hand (often a hands-on hand) in helping to save it from destruction or reincarnating it, sometimes phoenix-like from its very ashes.

“Beyond the Streets on Paper,” a show of some 500 works by 75 international artists, will open at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday with a free barbecue on the center’s West Lawn.     

Small-scale Warhols, a new venue in East Hampton, sculpture at Duck Creek, painting at Ashawagh, linoleum collages, and more

Hamptons Jazz Fest on the move, Trouble at Wolffer, G.E. Smith at the Talkhouse, Sublime's punk-ska at the Clubhouse, and more

The East Hampton Historical Society's Antiques and Design Show returns this weekend with its covetous preview cocktail party and a design symposium.

A new dance festival in Southampton, sonic experimentation at Duck Creek, call for performers. Broadway in Water Mill, and "Camelot" at Bay Street

This week, Guild Hall will present comedy from Mike Birbiglia, Susie Essman, Isaac Mizrahi, and Mercedes Ruehl, books talks, music, and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

It takes more than wheels to make mobile meals, say food truck owners. In the spirit of high summer, four food truck operators talked about what makes their trucks tick.

Pollock-Krasner lecture series to focus on Mary Abbott and the women of mid-20th-century abstraction

The Sag Harbor Cinema loses its executive director less than a year after his hire. Genevieve Villaflor has been named acting director.

"Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim," an exhibition that sheds light on racial segregation on the East End, will open at the Parrish Art Museum this weekend.

Paintings and drawings by Billy Sullivan are on view at Madoo, which is also hosting a signing for a new book by Christophe von Hohenberg Friday.