Arts

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will perform “Mozart in Salzburg,” a concert of his early works composed in that Austrian city, on Saturday at 5 and 7:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Melissa Errico and Julian Schnabel at Guild Hall, Elayne Boosler at LTV, Tom Scott at SAC, and more.

A cancer diagnosis in the family was the impetus behind Joel Sartore's National Geographic Photo Ark, an ongoing effort to raise awareness of and discover solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and habitats by creating a photo archive of global diversity.

Anglophiles in the tristate area will rejoice to know that treasures from one of England’s grandest domiciles will be crossing the pond to the Sotheby’s auction house in New York City.

A second annual benefit program for the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, “The Cozy Side of Beethoven: An Intimate Concert,” will be performed tomorrow, featuring some of the master’s well-loved favorites and some of his less-well-known vocal works.

Poetic titles, thin washes of color inspired by J.M.W. Turner, and a playful use of collage all characterize Sally Egbert’s work, which will be on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs beginning Saturday.

“Here I Go Again,” in which Ms. Eikenberry will be joined by Michael Tucker, the actor and writer who happens to be her husband, and David Rasche, an award-winning composer and actor, is a cabaret-style evening of song at Bay Street Theater.

This year’s artist at the Dan Flavin Art Institute is Jacqueline Humphries, who divides her time between New York City and Southold. Her recent black light on fluorescent cast works are an expansion of the black light paintings she has been making since a 2005 fire in her studio caused her to rethink her practice.

Those who were enthusiastic about the possibilities inherent in the restoration of the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio years ago will rejoice in the announcement of the exhibition “Thomas Moran Discovers the American West,” which will go on view there on Saturday, running through early November.

A visit to the home of Jeremy Grosvenor, Saskia Friedrich, and their son, Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor, 23, in northern Sagaponack provided an object lesson of sorts, specifically with respect to the behavioral trait of creativity. All three are artists, although there are distinct differences in how they think about art and characterize their practices.

Birdhouse is back, Renate Aller at Parrish and MM Fine Art, new shows at RJD, and a show at Temple Adas Israel

 “G.E. Smith’s Portraits,” now in its fourth iteration, was conceived in 2015 and produced by Taylor Barton as a series of intimate evenings featuring actors, painters, and fellow musicians. Its first concert of the year will feature Loudon Wainwright III and John Wesley Harding at Guild Hall.

Bill O’Connell, a pianist who lives in Montauk and Rockland County, is one of very few non-Latinos to make significant contributions to the Latin jazz movement.

Django Festival Allstars at Guild Hall, here comes Pianofest, "Mailing Whaling" opens at Whaling Museum, and more.

“One Night in Central Park,” a two-hour examination of the Central Park jogger, made extensive use of courtroom drawings by Marilyn Church, now they are in an opera about the case playing in Southern California.

The latest gallery arrival on Amagansett's Main Street is ARC Fine Art, an import from Connecticut with ties to the region. Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, its proprietor, has been coming to East Hampton for many years and showing art informally on the East End in pop-up spaces. She has decided to formalize that relationship.

There is a sense of tangible danger in recent years on the South Fork. This peril does not derive from a murder or a slew of rip currents, although those are sobering in their own right. This precariousness stems from a material loss that carries a metaphysical threat, a loss of identity.

The question that came to mind over and over again while watching “Maiden,” the first SummerDocs offering of the 2019 season, was “Can this really be 1989?” 

New installations of Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Talasnik at LongHouse and new shows at Ille, Rental, White Room, Ashawagh, Estia, Keyes, and Markel.

“Safe Space,” a new play by Alan Fox having its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor next week, explores the detonation of issues related to identity politics, racism, and political correctness on the campus of an elite American university.

For 35 years, Andrew Visconti has been the American correspondent for an Italian news syndicate. But now he is turning his energies to writing a memoir and wants to help others pursue the same goal.

Summer Songs, the Pat DeRosa Jazz Orchestra, Much Ado About Madoo, and more

Nancy Schwartzman’s “Roll Red Roll,” a selection of the 2018 Hamptons International Film Festival, will be screened Monday on PBS as part of the public television network’s documentary series “POV.”

This year’s Jazz for Jennings benefit for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center will take place on June 23 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. at the Watermill Center. The jazz brunch and concert will feature Evan Sherman as bandleader. 

The event follows the tradition established by the late Peter Jennings and his wife, Kayce Freed Jennings, who hosted Jazz @ Jennings at their house in Bridgehampton for eight years. The center has served the children of the Bridgehampton community with educational and enrichment programs since the 1950s. Tickets start at $500.

Sam Green’s most recent project, “A Thousand Thoughts,” a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet at Guild Hall on June 21, blends live music and narration with archival footage and interviews such prominent artists as Philip Glass.

The exhibition title “Go Figure” at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton has multiple meanings, which suits an exhibition that exuberantly presents a plethora of ways to address the genre of figurative art.

New shows at Harper's Books, Studio 11, Ashawagh Hall, Grain Surfboards, and other venues

When he was 23 and just out of New York University’s musical theater program, Walker Vreeland took a job as a lead singer for Norwegian Cruise Lines, never suspecting that the voyage would last a decade and include a stopover at John Hopkins Hospital’s Mood Disorder Psychiatric Ward.

Andromeda, as the classical Greek myth goes, was the victim of the hubris of her mother, Cassiopeia, and the god Poseidon’s rage, and in the end was saved from a sea monster by the hero-god Perseus. But along the way, one never really hears from Andromeda herself.

And that always bothered Kate Mueth, the founder and artistic director of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, whose recent theatrical portrayals of “Andromeda” have flipped the script on the myth in such a way that the protagonist has a say in her own story.

When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed by the United States Congress, abolitionists nicknamed it the “Bloodhound Law” for the dogs that were used by bounty hunters to track down runaway slaves. Not only were runaways pursued, but the law also resulted in the kidnapping and conscription of free blacks into slavery.