Arts

It was a performance of "The Weight" with Nancy Atlas at the Surf Lodge that launched Lynn Blue and her band into the top tier of East End rockers.

The summer concert of the Choral Society of the Hamptons will feature the world premiere of a new arrangement of love songs by the Beatles, as well as folk songs and two other premieres.

The artist Ted Tyler has sustained careers as an innovative ceramic sculptor and a successful designer and printer of fabrics and wall coverings.

"Chic Mystique" at J. Mackey Gallery, contemporary artists engage with children's art at Watermill Center, 14 photographers at Lucore, group show at LTV, creative workshops.

Tom Van Scoyoc, an East Hampton native with 10 years in the film industry, took a flier on the Straight 8 competition with a three-minute Super 8 film and wound up one of eight finalists chosen to show their work at Cannes.

For "The Ark," coming to The Church in Sag Harbor, Eric Fischl, a modern-day Noah, has organized an exhibition of animal sculptures by over 40 international artists.

Hamptons Pride outdoor party at LongHouse, Alastair Gordon on aviation and airports, benefit for East End scholarship fund.

Ophira Eisenberg, a standup comedian, writer, and longtime host of NPR's comedy trivia show "Ask Me Another," will bring her "wicked funny" act to Bay Street.

Guild Hall will host Whitney White's song cycle "The Case of the Stranger," whose theme of tolerance was inspired in part by a text from William Shakespeare.

Hamptons JazzFest will launch its fifth season on Sunday with a sold-out party (but there is a waitlist) at the Southampton Arts Center.

The New Music Series at the Arts Center at Duck Creek will kick off with Little Black Egg (Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan) and 75 Dollar Bill (Che Chen and Rick Brown).

The impact of John Chamberlain, David Geiser at Ashawagh, group show at Depot Gallery, exhibition tour at the Parrish, Hunt Slonem solo in Sag, a feminist history on wood.

"Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios" is an engrossing history of some of the most influential and legendary recording studios and the men who founded and guided them.

The acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Hiroya Tsukamoto performs Friday at LTV, and next Thursday the World Voices Series and the Eastville Community Historical Society will celebrate Juneteenth with the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee White Party Awards and Celebration Ceremony.

Opening at the Arts Center at Duck Creek are ”Generous Ground,” a group show of Duck Creek “alumni,” and “My Wife, Masked and Unmasked,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Carol Saft.

Ballet and music at Guild Hall, market and cocktail party at Madoo, Neo-Political Cowgirls benefit at LongHouse, Perlman chamber music concert in East Hampton, music and wolves in Sag Harbor.

The Complete Unknowns draw on Bob Dylan’s six decades of material to showcase the songs and the musicianship that brought them to life.

Lez Zeppelin will return to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for what Steph Paynes, the band’s founder and guitarist, called "a wild, intense, sensuous, in-your-face, no-holds-barred” show.

The North Fork TV Festival will bring Tramell Tillman, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Kind, Christopher Meloni, and other stars to Greenport for two days of films, panels, and interviews.

Among the series of works created by Oscar Molina, a prolific Southampton artist, his “Children of the World” paintings and sculptures reflect his encounters with conflict and survival as a boy in El Salvador during its civil war.

An exhibition of panoramic photographs of people taken by Nat Ward over four years at Montauk’s Ditch Plain Beach captures “moments in time.”

Yung Jake solo at Tripoli, mod fashion and more at the White Room, image generation in a post-truth age at Hesse Flatow, group show at Romany Kramoris.

At LongHouse this weekend, Jill Platner will talk about and lead a tour of her outdoor sculptural installation, “Talking With Trees,” and Tucker Marder, after discussing his Folly Tree Arboretum in Springs, will lead a tour of it.

Sal Salandra's erotic textile art not only inspired the film "Drunken Noodles," which recently played at Cannes, but a friendship with Dr. Ezriel Kornel, a neurosurgeon and actor who played the artist in the film.

Writers and Artists hold forth in Amagansett, global music through a jazz lens, Laurie Anderson at The Church, lecture on Southern Plants for Northern Gardens.

A new exhibition at the Clinton Academy illuminates the seven South Fork historic artists homes and studios so designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

LongHouse Reserve will host a talk on the architecture of Central Park South and a conversation with a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist from Canada.

John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the book for and starred in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" Off Broadway and on film, will take the stage at Guild Hall for an evening of songs and stories.

A young couple's letters from World War II inspired "Bob & Jean: A Love Story," a play written by their son, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, now at Bay Street Theater.

Suzanne Vega, whose new album, "Flying With Angels," feels "of the moment," will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.