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Guild Hall announced this week that it has named Amy Kirwin as its first chief creative officer.

In honor of the fourth anniversary of the Sag Harbor Cinema fire, today the theater is releasing a five-minute documentary that commemorates that event as recalled by the firefighters who battled the fateful blaze. 

On Monday evening, Artists for Democracy will continue their East End projections to encourage residents to vote on Tuesday, which is the official Election Day.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's closing night film this year will be "One Night in Miami." Directed by the actress Regina King, it is based on a play of the same name about the gathering of four giants of sports, music, and activism on the night of a major boxing upset in 1964.

In Springs, the Leiber Collection will host a talk and tour of "The Garden of Friends" exhibition on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will conclude its Zoom lecture series with "Another Desert Laboratory," about Georgia O'Keeffe's house in Abiquiu, N.M., that day at 5 p.m.

A fortunate few will be able to attend an intimate gathering to hear Laurie Anderson and Christian McBride reprise their critically acclaimed and occasional concert series at Guild Hall on Sept. 5.

If scenes from Beyonce's new "visual album" on Disney+ looked familiar, maybe that's because scenes from the superstar's "Black Is King" were filmed in Guild Hall's galleries in 2019.

Hamptons Film Drive-In, in partnership with the Hayground School, will show Tina Fey's "Mean Girls," from 2004, as the Monday retrospective film, and Jordan Peele's "Get Out" as the Scary Wednesday film. 

After three months of virtual programming, the Southampton Arts Center opened its doors Thursday after receiving authorization from the Village of Southampton, the Town of Southampton, and Suffolk County. The center is celebrating with something old and something new.

On Wednesday, Skarstedt Gallery will launch an East Hampton branch of its New York and London operations at a 1,500-square-foot space in the same cluster of storefronts once occupied by the Drawing Room at 66 Newtown Lane.

All for the East End's Feed the Need Campaign will be the beneficiary of a two-night drive-in screening of the new Disney movie "Artemis Fowl" on Friday and Saturday at the grounds of the Hampton Classic in Bridgehampton.

In an effort to bridge the gap between shuttered museums and the creative individuals whose work they rely on, Guild Hall is offering artists an opportunity for one-on-one, virtual studio visits with Christina Strassfield, its museum director and chief curator.