Arts

Caroline Doctorow and her band, the Ballad Makers, will perform tunes from “the American Songbook and other stories” on Saturday.

Functional art and a preview cocktail party have been added to an old favorite event of the summer season.

Bobby Collins, who left a career as an executive at Calvin Klein to pursue a career as a full-time stand-up comedian, will share his comedic observations on Saturday.

Peter Marino took a few Warhols given to him by the artist into a world class art collection on view beginning Saturday at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series features speakers from a wide range of disciplines, including a poet, a playwright, a composer, and a professor of mathematics and economics.

A celebration of the lives and works of Judith and Gerson Leiber will be held on Saturday afternoon at the Leiber Collection in Springs.

Bruce Willis, Brooke Adams, Michael Nouri, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin are among the stars who will be out this week at Guild Hall.

Saul Steinberg at Drawing Room; group show at R. J. Steele; Alice Hope in D.C.; "Tiny People" at the Shed, and more

On Aug. 8, Zachary Lazar, Sarah Koenig, and Garnette Cadogan will meet at Guild Hall to discuss the American criminal justice system and mass incarceration.

Louis Schanker isn’t one of the first to come to mind when thinking of the grand artistic names of the mid-20th century on the South Fork, but perhaps he should be.

Only a few tickets remain for the inaugural Southampton Arts Center's first Architecture and Design Tour, a benefit event including a lecture and docent-led tours of Stanford White's buildings in Southampton.

A 1993 discovery of an industrial musical recording set Steve Young on a years-long treasure hunt for other records of these Broadway-style productions made for executives and sales forces of major corporations.

Stories — sung or spoken, from the living and the dead — will figure in two programs at Guild Hall this week.

The Montauk Library will host “The Housewives’ Cantata Reboot,” a free cabaret concert, on Wednesday.

The Southampton Historical Museum is presenting a lecture series that looks back to various manifestations in Southampton of the Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

“Summer Roses VIII: Love in the Garden of Dreams,” a classical concert, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.

Oh, how I wish I’d known the photographer Susan Wood during the "Mad Men" days of the ’60s, when I was a very young reporter at The New York Post and she was a very young freelance photographer.

Joel Perlman and Karl Klingbiel at Ille; Alan Vega at Boo-Hooray; Simphiwe Ndzube and Cassi Namoda at Harper's Books; Basquiat film in Sag Harbor, and more

Hadley Vogel's eclectic background and interests include art making, exhibition space management, teaching preschool, and—in keeping with her father’s line of work—bookbinding. Her attempts to unify these metiers is already generating new hybrids.

"Destination America" is the 35th Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's theme with 18 concerts scheduled around the South Fork from July 19 to Aug. 19.

Get ready for a bonus mini-run at Bay Street Theater with a new version of “Confessions of a Mormon Boy,” which earned its writer-director Steven Fales an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding solo performance.

Michael Weiskopf and Randolph Hudson, co-founders of the Complete Unknowns, a Bob Dylan tribute band, with Lauren Matzen, will perform a selection of Mr. Dylan’s weather-related songs on Wednesday.

Two documentaries on artists by Lana Jokel will be shown Thursday and Monday on the South Fork.

The Southampton Arts Center will host a free outdoor bluegrass concert on Saturday.

The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present a free concert by the Certain Moves Trio on Friday.

How hip-hop has melded with Bollywood, Latin, jazz, and other genres will be the theme of Reaction Dance Company's performance at the Parrish Art Museum on Wednesday afternoon.

In presenting the virtual reality works of Laurie Anderson, Guild Hall is participating in a world-wide appreciation of the pieces, which have won a Venice Film Festival award and are being exhibited at Mass MoCA and in Tasmania this summer.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons made the most of Carl Orff's opportunities for compelling music making in his piece "Carmina Burana," on Saturday.

Two performances by the Strangemen Theatre Company and Dancers for Good, a benefit evening of dance, will take place at Guild Hall during the next ten days.

Upstairs Art Fair returns to Amagansett; Naama Tsabar at Fireplace Project; Marc Dalessio at Grenning; "Captivate" at White Room, and more