Arts

New exhibitions of Giard and Guild Hall volunteers, local artists travel to New York and Halifax, a new film series on Van Gogh, and more

‘Who Gets to Call It Art?” is a sprawling collage of a film. Made in 2006, it has a style not unlike the era it covers, jerky and jump-cut with a groovy garage band soundtrack.

Mountain's Corky Laing at Canio's, a film about a slave trafficking family from New England, concerts, a benefit, and more

Guild Hall has a strong finish to summer with a salute to Jules Feiffer on the occasion of his 90th birthday, a concert of Jenni Muldaur and friends such as Rufus Wainwright, and a reception for the interior designer Tom Scheerer and his new book.

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

Lynn Novick, a documentary filmmaker, was in Sag Harbor for a preview at Bay Street Theater of her most recent project, “College Behind Bars,” a four-hour series that will premiere on PBS in November.

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.

Group and solo shows opening this week from Montauk to Southampton

Jonny Shapiro does not like to be called a music executive. The founder of Cinematic Music Group prefers to be described as a producer or entrepreneur. No matter his own label, what is clear is that he learned to make moves, to make things happen for himself, right here in East Hampton.

“Hearts Aflame: Love Letters and Torch Songs” will feature a dozen prominent actors reading passionate communiqués ranging from 12th-century letters to contemporary emails in a benefit performance at Guild Hall on Sunday evening at 7.

Amanda Ayala has performed on big stages in Nashville, New York City, Hollywood, and Orlando, Fla., and smaller stages throughout the Northeast, but never in East Hampton.

Shakespeare al fresco in Southampton, college in prison, a photographer's talk, and much more.

From all appearances, Karen and Barry Mason seemed like a regular suburban couple raising three kids in Los Angeles. But for decades, up until this year, they ran the largest gay porn emporium in that city, and for a time were the biggest distributors in the United States, even producing their own films.

Readers of Isaac Mizrahi’s recently published memoir, “I.M.,” will be aware that he always dreamed of being a performer, even as many people know him only through his work in fashion design.

Something of a supergroup will assemble on the stage at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Wednesday at 8 p.m. At its center, will be the singer and songwriter LeRoy Bell.

Two staged readings featuring award-winning actors, two exotic musical mash-ups, and a discussion about the state of the art world will keep Guild Hall hopping this week.

“Summer Rental,” a group exhibition organized by the curator, writer, and art dealer Kenny Schachter, will open Saturday at the Rental Gallery in East Hampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. “The show is a love letter to summers, and a celebration of life, family, art, and . . . vacations!” according to a release. It will continue through Sept. 30.

“I was one of the first people to kind of take things out of the trash," said Todd Merrill of his early acquisitions of the modern furniture Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses would dump at Tepper Galleries in New York,

In 2000, East End Hospice first asked 100 local artists to transform small, unadorned boxes into works of art. Ever since, the call has gone out and the artistic community has responded.

“Love is a battlefield,” Pat Benatar sang about the bumpy path to romance in her 1983 hit, while a few centuries earlier Shakespeare wrote about it in his most popular of plays, “Romeo and Juliet.” These two powerhouses of music and literature will collide Friday and Saturday at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor.

A sake of Jack Larsen's personal collection, a Jersey Boy at Bay Street, Brazilian jazz at the Parrish, and more

All plays and musicals are products of their time. The trick for a director is to find a way to contextualize them, or make them speak urgently to the here and now. Hats off, then, to Irving Berlin’s great musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” now at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater.

Blending an eclectic medley of classical music with beautiful outdoor settings, Music for Montauk’s summer series will present four programs from Thursday through Aug. 23, three of which are free to the public.

Philip Glass, Alan Alda, Mo Amer, Lewis Black, and Susan Lucci are a few of the notable performers who are bringing their talents to Guild Hall this week.

How the Gilded Age manifested itself on the East End is the subject of “High Style in the Gilded Age: Southampton 1870-1930,” which will open a one-year run at the Southampton History Museum on Saturday.

New shows at Ille Arts, Eric Firestone Gallery, Fireplace Project, Ashawagh Hall, Madoo Conservancy, and many more

Watermill Center Open House, Aviva in Montauk, Burwell at Ross, Family Fun in Southampton, Toys and Game Show in Sag Harbor, and more

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's “Dvorak in the New World” was narrated by the author, playwright, and Stony Brook professor Roger Rosenblat and centered on a few years (1891-93) when the Czech composer was in the United States.

The Hamptons Dance Project was born on the sands of East Hampton’s Main Beach many years ago, after Jose Sebastian was adopted at the age of 3 but before he joined the American Ballet Theatre in 2010.

The sounds of America are ringing out at Guild Hall this summer. Last month, the arts and cultural center’s second annual Guitar Masters Festival saw intimate performances by the likes of Buddy Guy, the Allman Betts Band, and Roseanne Cash, and the blues phenomenon J.D. Simo opening for the progeny of the Allman Brothers Band.