Although Helen Frankenthaler spent some of her formative years as an artist in Springs and East Hampton, she developed a more lasting relationship with Provincetown, Mass., during her marriage to Robert Motherwell. The decade she kept a summer studio there had a profound impact on her work.

The Watermill Center showed off an eclectic installment on Saturday night at the center’s annual benefit and auction, an "enchanted forest and performance art extravaganza" that featured works by more than 30 international artists. This year’s event was titled Tabula Rasa, or “clean slate,” a theme centered on evoking a mind-set absent of preconceived ideas.

Six pianists gathered last week to talk about their experiences participating in Pianofest, a summer festival that offers concentrated study to a small group of auditioned and very talented young artists, who live for four weeks in a large house in East Hampton and present concerts to the public in venues in Southampton, East Hampton, and Westhampton Beach.

With “American Moonshot,” Douglas Brinkley has written a magisterial history of the space age and an affectionate valentine to those brave astronauts who flew to the moon, the politicians who dealt with the art of the possible, and above all to John F. Kennedy. He'll be at Authors Night in Amagansett on Aug. 10.

In “The Urethane Revolution,” John O'Malley tells “the greatest story never told in extreme sports history,” the 1975 birth of skateboarding, courtesy of a “hippy skunkworks of garages and shacks” in the Southern California sunshine. He'll read from it at a book launch at the Montauk Beach House on Friday, Aug. 9.

It’s unusual to have so many happy, enthusiastic diners who truly love everything placed in front of them, but such was the case at Morty’s Oyster Stand. I believe Mr. Cyril Fitzsimons would approve.

Plain-T cart, Amber Waves Farm dinners, and a chef's talk at Guild Hall

A frequent visitor to the South Fork, Walter Plate spent most of each year in Woodstock, N.Y., where he settled after serving in World War II. But that didn’t keep him from absorbing the same inspiration from the East End as his associates Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, and Herman Cherry, a mentor.

On Saturday, a new show of RJT Haynes paintings will open at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs.

LaChanze first stepped onto a Broadway stage in 1990 in the musical “Once on This Island” and lost no time launching a career that hasn’t slowed down since.

Linda Eder, Questlove, and a sold-out David Sedaris reading at Guild Hall this week.

Opera in the gardens at LongHouse, Netto speaks on reviving old houses, music in Montauk, and much more

Time for the Springs Invitational organized by Peter Spacek, Artist Alliance tour, Steampunk, new at Grennig, and more

The nonprofit East End Birth Network has launched two new birth circles. Grupo de Nacimiento, a collaboration with the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, where it met for the first time on July 11, is a monthly support group for parents and the first Spanish-speaking Birth Circle on Long Island.

An accident during the morning commute on Tuesday had traffic backed up for miles. 

Some museum galleries downplay local artists, but not Guild Hall in East Hampton. Now in its 73rd year, its Clothesline Art Sale will host the work of 400 artists — most of them residents of the East End — on Saturday. Open with free admission from 9 a.m.

The whale was towed to a beach in Montauk where the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy.

Chefs such as Claudia Fleming, Jason Weiner, Christian Mir, Alex Guarnaschelli, and others will come together on Sunday to fete Jon Snow, a founder of the Hayground School and its summer camp, who has run the garden there and helped connect it to cooking as a central component of the Hayground curriculum.

Sunshine is in the weather forecast for Saturday, just in time for the annual Ladies Village Improvement Society fair. Always held on the last Saturday in July, 2019 marks the L.V.I.S.’s 123rd year putting on the fair. It happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 95 Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has warned people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond after samples taken at two sites on the pond earlier this week showed a certified harmful blue-green algal bloom, which can post a threat to human and animal health.