Arts

Nancy Atlas returns to Bay Street Theater with four new Fireside Sessions concerts.

With the mainstreaming of tattoos, microblading, and piercing, a Noyac couple finds a lively market for their artistry at Hamptons, Ink.

The Elaine de Kooning House, LongHouse Reserve, and the Arts Center at Duck Creek have been selected for the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program.

Grenning Gallery is selling prints to benefit a teaching facility for underserved communities, printmaking workshops are coming to The Church in Sag Harbor, and a new group show is at Sara Nightingale.

Barbara Kruger's immersive, dizzying installation at the Museum of Modern Art is an explosion of black-and-white text about truth, power, belief, doubt, and desire.

The writer Susan Scarf Merrell talks about her "secret" desire to write fiction, and her breakthrough novel, "Shirley: A Novel," a thriller that drew upon the life of Shirley Jackson, a writer known for her works of mystery and horror.

Judy Carmichael and her trio will bring a concert of swing music to Bay Street Theater.

"Sr." is an offbeat and fascinating portrait of Robert Downey, who emerged as an iconoclastic underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and his complex relationship with his son, the actor Robert Downey Jr.

Kiki Smith print to benefit Pollock-Krasner House, new art in the Leiber Sculpture Garden, closing reception for "A Celebration of Trees," solo shows in Southampton, and Conceptual Art revisited in TriBeCa

A documentary about the writer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, won the Hamptons Doc Fest Audience Award.

A new book of stunning underwater photographs by the Montauk scientist and explorer Gaelin Rosenwaks is a fascinating portrait of sperm whales, nature's largest predator and the inspiration for "Moby-Dick."

A short film brings new friends to The Church, filmed drama at East Hampton Library, saxophone virtuoso at the Parrish, "It's a Wonderful Life" radio plays on both forks, and the Watermill Center now accepting residency applications.