A co-founder of the New Art Dealers Alliance and an art consultant, Sheri Pasquarella wanted to work in an organization connecting art and community, a goal fulfilled when she became executive director of The Church in Sag Harbor.

Guild Hall’s new exhibitions will feature mixed-media pieces by Darlene Charneco and photographs of artists who have lived and worked on the East End.

“Strictly Murder,” at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, is a World War II-era thriller by the author of “The Avengers” filled with lies, subterfuge, and murder.

Matthew K. Ward has taken the helm of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center after serving as a curator at the Museum of the Southwest in Texas and an educator at Stony Brook University, Hofstra University, and St. Joseph’s College.