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“Unpregnant Pause: Where Are the Babies?” — a free performance based on a new book by Debbie Slevin — will take place Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Montauk Library.

Aug 6, 2015
Burt Glinn’s “Castro Speaks in Santa Clara, January 5, 1959” will be on view in “Cuba, Cuba! 65 Years of Photography,” which will open next Thursday at the Southampton Arts Center. ICP Photos of Cuba, Then and Now at Southampton Arts Center

A rare trove of photographs and posters depicting the history of Cuba along with contemporary images will be on display this summer at the Southampton Arts Center thanks to a collaboration with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Aug 6, 2015
The artistry of “Surf Craft” at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will appeal to surfers and non-surfers alike. In ‘Surf Craft’ at LongHouse, Form and Function Become Art

On Friday afternoon, Chris Harmon of East Hampton, one of the more outstanding surfers to grow out of Long Island waves, crouched, nearly knelt, before a finely shaped length of fiberglass-coated polyurethane foam, virtually flat, the nose of it pointed with a forked tail, two fins, a red deck, and white bottom.

Aug 6, 2015
Judy Gold’s Comedy

The Comedy Club series at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present Judy Gold, the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, on Monday at 8 p.m.

Aug 6, 2015
Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by Monet’s “Nympheas (Water Lilies)” in a series of paintings that included “Water Lilies With Japanese Bridge,” right, from 1992. Lichtenstein Land and Seascapes

The more than 30 works assembled for “Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky,” which will open Sunday at Guild Hall and remain on view through Oct. 12, provide a master class in the artist’s use of an encyclopedic range of materials and processes, many of them industrial, to revive the landscape genre, expand its possibilities, and mine its art historical antecedents.

Aug 6, 2015
Live Music, Indoors and Out

Music for Montauk, the long-running program of free concerts that was revived in the spring by Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, its new artistic directors, will hold its first-ever summer series of concerts, indoors and out, from Tuesday through Aug. 15.

Aug 6, 2015
Star Wars, Cabaret, Doo-Wop

“One-Man Star Wars Trilogy,” a solo performance by Charles Ross, a Canadian performer and writer, will transport the galaxy from far, far away to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Aug 6, 2015
The Art Scene: 08.06.15

"Let them eat cake" at the “True Confections,” exhibition of work by Monica Banks and Christa Maiwald at the Nightingale. The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present “East End Artists: Then and Now,” an exhibition organized by Peter Marcelle, from tomorrow through Aug. 23.

Aug 6, 2015
Fern Mallis will be at the East Hampton Library’s Authors Night on Saturday with her new book, “Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons With Fern Mallis.” The Reinvention of Fern Mallis

Fern Mallis has navigated two worlds in the fashion industry: the initial, enormous behind-the-scenes efforts, as executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, to unite the industry under what eventually became New York City’s iconic Fashion Week, and the public acclaim she later began to receive for that work as senior vice president of IMG Fashion.

Aug 6, 2015
Trucks and Caesar’s Together

The Allman Brothers Band may be finished (or maybe not), but Butch Trucks, a founding member and one of its two percussionists, is rocking on. Now at his house in France, Mr. Trucks will arrive in the United States next Thursday and head directly to Amagansett and the Stephen Talkhouse.

Aug 6, 2015
‘Strings al Fresco’

The Voxare Quartet, an acclaimed and innovative young string quartet, will perform outdoors at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Aug 6, 2015
Grey Gardens when it was the home of the Beales 'Grey Gardens,' From Broadway to Bay Street

The musical version of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale's story will open a three-and-a-half-week run at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor starting Tuesday at 7 p.m. and continuing through Aug. 30.

Jul 30, 2015
Richard Kind will play the title role in a staged reading of “Steinbrenner” at Guild Hall. The play is about the legendary owner of the New York Yankees. 'Steinbrenner' Examines 'The Boss' of the Yankees at Guild Hall

Ira Berkow and Bill Madden have spent the last four years perfecting a play about the late George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees baseball team who often seemed larger than life.

Jul 30, 2015
The region’s artists come to show and its collectors come to buy at Guild Hall’s Clothesline Art Sale, which will celebrate its 69th year on Saturday. Clothesline Art Sale Is Back

The Clothesline Art Sale returns to Guild Hall on Saturday for its 69th incarnation. Both to promote the work of local artists and to attract buyers hoping to spend reasonably, the sale presents affordable pieces in a wide variety of mediums — oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; prints, collages, photography, and small sculptures.

Jul 30, 2015
Elaine de Kooning Is the Subject At the Pollock-Krasner House

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will present “Elaine de Kooning Portrayed,” a show that will include portraits of the artist both by her hand and those of others beginning next Thursday.

Jul 30, 2015
Garland Jeffreys Garland Jeffreys Tells the ‘Truth’

“All is well here in New York City,” Garland Jeffreys reported by telephone on a recent morning. Mr. Jeffreys, a Brooklyn native who could fairly be called the quintessential New York City musician — more so perhaps than even Lou Reed or the Ramones — was busy working up songs for a new release, the next in what has become one of the most prolific periods of a nearly five-decade career.

Jul 30, 2015
Gursky Landscapes at Parrish

Snow-capped mountains, a group of Turner paintings, and industrial shipping docks might not be the first thing one thinks of when visiting the South Fork, but the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill plans to give visitors a world tour of some unusual places in the guise of Andreas Gursky photographs beginning Sunday.

Jul 30, 2015
Jazz At The Parrish

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will feature the Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet in its next Jazz en Plein Air program, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Jul 30, 2015
“Midnight Pear” by Ken Robbins Springs Invitational at Ashawagh

Andrea McCafferty will serve as curator for the 48th annual “Artists of the Springs Invitational Exhibit‚” opening tomorrow at Ashawagh Hall with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Jul 30, 2015
The Art Scene: 07.30.15

Philip Taaffewill show works on paper and illustrated books at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller’s East Hampton outpost. Show opens Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Roisin Bateman, a painter whose work is inspired by nature’s laws of transformation, will conduct a four-session watercolor workshop at the John Jermain Memorial Library. Classes will start Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and continue Tuesdays at that time through Aug. 25.

Jul 30, 2015
This Week at Guild Hall

Tonight at 8, Guild Hall’s Rock Cinema series will present “Aerosmith Rocks Donington,” a documentary that captured the rock group’s concert at the 2014 Download Festival in Leicestershire, England.

Jul 30, 2015
Edward Burns was caught in a pensive moment on the set of “Public Morals,” the series he created that will premiere on TNT on Aug. 25. A Watershed Year for Edward Burns

The filmmaker has published a book, “Independent Ed: Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life,” and has a new series, “Public Morals,” to air on TNT.

Jul 28, 2015
An archival still of Marlon Brando and his daughter, Cheyenne, from “Listen to Me Marlon” 'Listening to Marlon Brando' Is Latest HIFF SummerDoc

The second film in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series, “Listen to Me Marlon,” has no talking heads, no interviewees, no narrator. With the exception of a few television news clips, the voice on the soundtrack is Marlon Brando’s, and it affords access to the actor’s multidimensionality seldom available even to his friends.

Jul 23, 2015
A Varied Cultural Tasting Menu at Guild Hall This Week

Ballet, jazz, satire, film, and art will offer a cultural tasting menu at Guild Hall during the coming week. Ballet Hispanico, which sold out its performance last year, will return with “CARMEN.maquia,” a reimagining of Bizet’s tragic opera, on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Jul 23, 2015
Darrell Hammond to Return to Bay Street Theater on Saturday

The Comedy Club at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present Darrell Hammond on Saturday at 8 p.m. Mr. Hammond was a “Saturday Night Live” regular from 1995 to 2009, the longest tenure of any cast member in the show’s history.

Jul 23, 2015
East Hampton's Cowgirls Bring 'Voyeur' to Berlin

The Neo-Political Cowgirls, a dance theater group based in East Hampton and led by Kate Mueth, an actor and director, will perform “Voyeur,” which premiered in Springs last summer, at the gallery Art Von Frei in Berlin from next Thursday through Aug. 2.

Jul 23, 2015
Montauk Library to Present Sinatra Tribute

Rhonda Denet and the Silver Fox Trio will appear at the Montauk Library in “A Tribute to Frank Sinatra” on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

Jul 23, 2015
The crowd at a previous year's lecture series Russian Dissident Leads Off Watermill Center Lecture Series

The Watermill Center’s annual Scaler Summer Lecture Series will launch on Monday at 7:30 p.m. with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a founding member of the Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot. The series brings leading figures in the arts, sciences, and humanities to the center for free talks open to its summer resident artists and the public.

Jul 23, 2015
Southampton Arts Center Will Celebrate Richard Rodgers

Guild Hall’s Songbook and Salon series, which is held at the Southampton Arts Center, will present “My Heart Stood Still: The Love Songs of Richard Rodgers” on Saturday evening at 8.

Jul 23, 2015
Kaye Donachie's "Solitude Chases" is part of "Dearest . . ." at the Fireplace Project beginning Friday. The Art Scene: 07.23.15

Kate Donachie's exhibition of paintings at Fireplace Project are inspired by a letter from Georgia O'Keeffe to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Jul 23, 2015