Arts

Judith Hudson's current exhibition at the Tripoli Gallery takes aim at mortality with a sure painterly hand and an astute sense of humor.

The Church will host Rameshwar Das, who co-authored three books with Ram Dass, and Mira Dougherty-Johnson and Jenny Xie, who will read from their works.

Guild Hall’s newly renovated theater will open with a performance by Student Body, a local band, an American Masters documentary about August Wilson, and a performance by the award-winning singer-actor Billy Porter.

Jazz at Duck Creek, the Parrish, and the Sag Harbor Masonic Club, a party and a staged reading at LTV, a fund-raiser in Southampton, local lifeguards onscreen.

Bay Street Theater will honor Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, and Georgette Grier-Key at its gala, and host Patti LuPone for Music Mondays.

HamptonsFilm will present “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” a documentary about a Russian couple who have made a career out of scaling some of the world’s tallest buildings.

The celebrated writer Colson Whitehead will be at The Church in Sag Harbor for a conversation with Kevin Young of the Museum of African American History and Culture.

Terrence McNally’s “Master Class” at Bay Street is set in an opera master class run by Maria Callas, played by Vicki Lewis, who commands “the audience’s attention like a true diva of old.”

“Round House & Its Gardens: A Walking Tour,” a new book of photographs by Ennius Bergsma, captures the evolution of the property since he bought it from Jack Lenor Larsen in 1989.

Talk by Lucy Cookson at LongHouse, a Monet (but not that one) at AB NY, a surfer’s odyssey, and group shows at Ma’s House, Eric Firestone, the Depot, and Romany Kramoris.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to be first in line for Guild Hall’s annual Clothesline Art Show and Sale, which opened under sunny skies on Saturday at 9 a.m. sharp, with hundreds of works of art arrayed behind the building.

Solo shows at Harper's, J. Mackey, and Dia, Avram Gallery reopens, group shows at Lucore, Keyes, and Ashawagh, plein-air painting talk in Montauk.