What does it mean when a restaurant is virtually empty on a weekend evening in mid-August? It usually means sayonara, ciao, baby, make like a tree and leave.

There is something subversively exciting about viewing Jacqueline Humphries’s exhibition at Dia’s Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridge­hampton.

Although it’s not even Labor Day yet, the Hamptons International Film Festival is already preparing for its big event over Columbus Day weekend. On Friday, the festival announced its opening night film, “Just Mercy,” and a group of other high profile films it plans to screen this year.