Arts

A raconteur, writer, and composer of satirical songs, Christopher Mason has been coming to the East End every summer for 35 years, much of it spent at a friend’s house in Sag Harbor.

Hauser & Wirth confirmed the arrival of an international gallery powerhouse on Southampton's Main Street with a striking yet restrained sign out front and the installation of sleek and playful sculptural benches by Louise Bourgeois in the green space behind it.

Four films about racial inequality and the connection between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and contemporary events will be featured in this year’s Black Film Festival, a presentation of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

Pace Gallery partners with fellow behemoths, Gagosian and Acquavella, to present 40 works on paper from the late Donald B. Marron's collection, and much more.

The plays are the thing at Guild Hall, both virtually and live, starting Sunday with “The Pack: Short Comedies by Eugene Pack,” three plays featuring exceptional casts that will be available via YouTube Live at 8 p.m.

“Andromeda’s Sisters,” the Neo-Political Cowgirls’ two-part virtual arts and advocacy program, will kick off Friday evening at 7:30 with a show of monologues written by female-identifying playwrights and performed by notable actors.

Although not yet publicly announced, Phillips auction house proclaimed its presence in the Hamptons this week with a demure and obviously temporary sign at the rather showy location of 1 Nugent Street in Southampton Village.

Guild Hall continues outdoor programs, a surf movie night livestream, Jazz on the Terrace at the Parrish, and more.

Hiroyuki Hamada was inspired to organize "Three Painters at Duck Creek," an exhibition of works by Elliott Green, Eric Banks, and Sean Sullivan, after showing there himself last summer.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons has organized a Virtual Evening With Isaac Mizrahi in Sunday. He will be joined by friends such as Bob Balaban, Sandra Bernhard, and more.

Although he was scheduled to have a summer exhibition at Guild Hall, Robert Longo came up with a better plan for this year's unique circumstances. It involved his artist friends and giving back to the arts institution.

New galleries, new shows, video projections, and more from all over the South Fork.

New live programs at Guild Hall, a Zoom lecture and lunch with the historical society, live jazz at the Parrish, and more

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open its galleries for the first time since March on Aug. 7, with three exhibitions of works by and about East End artists drawn in large part from its permanent collection.

Beginning on Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek will host a series of talks that highlight and describe the work of the Plain Sight Project, which has been documenting the history of East Hampton's slave-owning past for several years.

East End Photographers and Artists Alliance have new exhibitions along with new gallery shows at Halsey McKay, MM Fine Art, BCK Fine Arts, Chase Edwards, and more.

On a side street in Montauk just off the Plaza, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann have conjured something different from the galleries setting up in storefronts on the South Fork. Their space, South Etna, is a manifestation of place as much as it is a merger of the independent curatorial approaches they have honed over years of directing their own New York galleries.

When Mark Borghi saw an empty space in Sag Harbor next to Flying Point Surf Boutique was available this spring, he did not hesitate to lease it. It is now the Sag Harbor sister to his Bridgehampton space and the current home to "The Silence Perpetuates."

More drive-in films courtesy of Sag Cinema and a drive-in concert, live onsite programs at the Parrish, more classes at Bay Street, and much more

This weekend, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival normally would have begun its annual summer concert series, as it has for 36 years. But aside from the heat, this summer is anything but normal. Fans of the series, however, will be able to hear five hourlong performances in the comfort and safety of their home or garden beginning Sunday.

Hamptons Film Drive-In at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton will screen its last week of movies next week: a remake of "The Parent Trap," the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," and a brand-new SummerDoc, "Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art."

Southampton's Rick Friedman is back with the Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, which will launch at noon Thursday on its website and continue through Sunday. It will return again over Labor Day weekend.

New shows at Pace, Drawing Room, and Eastville, a book signing in Sag and a new gallery for art and design.

Guided by the conviction that artists are the antennae of society, Mr. Kratz, a painter and president of the New York Academy of Art, and Ms. Roach, who is the director of the Flag Art Foundation in New York City, began to solicit artists' thoughts on living and working during quarantine and what life would be like afterward.

An article described the discovery of a "forgotten trove" of artworks with values estimated at $100,000 to $1 million at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, the sale of which was destined to "bring them lifesaving cash" and help save them from millions of dollars of debt. It sounded like a fairy tale, and, according to the hospital, it is.

More films al fresco in Bridge and South, Palm Springs comes to Zoom via the Southampton Arts Center's design tour, and a virtual jazz concert

The East Hampton Historical Society's annual Antiques and Design Show has adapted itself and its preview cocktail party for the season of the virtual benefit.

Leiber reopens, Clothesline returns, LongHouse has an auction, new Montauk galleries, and new shows all over

The placement of Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze" at LongHouse Reserve earlier this month involved flatbeds, a crane, brute force, and extreme care.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will host its own "American Idol"-style contest beginning Sunday and a new drive-in series in Southampton (with tailgating) will help Feed the Need.