Arts

Yung Jake's Nerf guns at Tripoli, Christmas in the Shed, paintings by Grace Hartigan at Christie's, and new work by Candace Hill Montgomery at Fireplace Project are among this week's gallery highlights.

Jazz is alive from Southampton to Montauk, the HooDoo Loungers will bring New Orleans to Sagaponack, and Judy Collins and Steve Earle will play the Talkhouse, as live music continues its comeback on the East End.

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will perform "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged" starting Thursday at Herrick Park in downtown East Hampton.

"Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks," is a meditation on the power and peril of the sea, with paintings crossing the boundaries of realism and hellscape.
 

Morris Goldman and SafroJazz at the Parrish, Max Blagg reading at Duck Creek

Community Day at the Water Mill Center will feature a dance rehearsal, hand-drumming workshops, outdoor artwork, a scavenger hunt, and more.

Guild Hall is celebrating its Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award-winners with a conversation between Laurie Anderson and Julian Schnabel and a night of wit and insights from the writer Tom Wolfe.     

Name a centuries-old monument here, or windmill, or house, and the odds are that Robert Hefner had a hand (often a hands-on hand) in helping to save it from destruction or reincarnating it, sometimes phoenix-like from its very ashes.

“Beyond the Streets on Paper,” a show of some 500 works by 75 international artists, will open at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday with a free barbecue on the center’s West Lawn.     

Small-scale Warhols, a new venue in East Hampton, sculpture at Duck Creek, painting at Ashawagh, linoleum collages, and more

Hamptons Jazz Fest on the move, Trouble at Wolffer, G.E. Smith at the Talkhouse, Sublime's punk-ska at the Clubhouse, and more

The East Hampton Historical Society's Antiques and Design Show returns this weekend with its covetous preview cocktail party and a design symposium.

A new dance festival in Southampton, sonic experimentation at Duck Creek, call for performers. Broadway in Water Mill, and "Camelot" at Bay Street

This week, Guild Hall will present comedy from Mike Birbiglia, Susie Essman, Isaac Mizrahi, and Mercedes Ruehl, books talks, music, and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

It takes more than wheels to make mobile meals, say food truck owners. In the spirit of high summer, four food truck operators talked about what makes their trucks tick.

Pollock-Krasner lecture series to focus on Mary Abbott and the women of mid-20th-century abstraction

The Sag Harbor Cinema loses its executive director less than a year after his hire. Genevieve Villaflor has been named acting director.

"Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim," an exhibition that sheds light on racial segregation on the East End, will open at the Parrish Art Museum this weekend.

Paintings and drawings by Billy Sullivan are on view at Madoo, which is also hosting a signing for a new book by Christophe von Hohenberg Friday.

Solo shows for John Little and Milton Avery, a pop-up from Mexico City, Minimalists at Berggruen, iconic women on canvas, and much more

Jazz Fest continues at multiple venues, Dan Bailey at Wolffer on Friday, a free music series at Main Beach, and more

In "Affinities for Abstraction," the artworks make their own cases for themselves on their own terms, whether they were painted last year or decades ago.

Jazz at Duck Creek and the Parrish, road movies at Sag Cinema, Concerts in the Park, and outdoor screenings

For Sandra Foschi and her husband, Bill Evans, ownership of WLNG is about "respecting its longevity, its legendary status in the community," the latter said last week

Decades after their publication, Steven Gaines's "Simply Halston" and "Philistines at the Hedgerow" are receiving big-time small screen treatment.

The Bay Street Theater will put the audience inside the four walls of its outdoor courtyard, where it will be surrounded by video projections and share the space with performers.

Sag Harbor Cinema launches its eclectic series of outdoor screenings in Mashashimuet Park this week.

Minimalists at Sotheby's and solos for Henry Taylor, Paul Cadmus, Adolph Gottlieb, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frederic Tuten, and more

Hamptons Jazz Fest, and live music from the Talkhouse to Montauk to Shelter Island and the North Fork

On Monday, G.E. Smith, who lives in Amagansett, will host Masters of the Telecaster with Jim Weider, who played with the Band for 15 years.