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Grooving in the Park and at the Beach in Southampton

The Southampton Cultural Center will kick off its annual Concerts in the Park series with a performance by Nancy Atlas on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Agawam Park.

Jun 29, 2017
Jazz Returns to Parrish

Jazz on the Terrace, an annual summer series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will open this year with “The Music of Burt Bacharach and Michael Jackson,” a performance by The Iris Ornig Group, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Jun 29, 2017
Jonathan Baker and Jenny Ljungberg got ready for a bicycle ride with Maddie, their daughter, outside the Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, which they own. Jonathan Baker: Making a Film Against All Odds

“Inconceivable,” Jonathan Baker's first feature film as director, which stars Nicholas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Faye Dunaway, will be released nationally tomorrow. The culmination of his career so far, it did not come to fruition easily.

Jun 29, 2017
Plays Made Into Films in Amagansett

The Amagansett Library will present “Stage to Film,” a series of six movies adapted from plays, starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. with “Fences,” the Oscar-nominated film adapted by August Wilson from his own play.

Jun 29, 2017
Surf Films Catch a Wave to Southampton Arts Center

What better way to welcome summer in the Hamptons than with “Surf Movie Night,” a free program of short, noncommercial surf movies that will be shown under the stars at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow at 8:30.

Jun 29, 2017
Terry Wallace greeted visitors at the opening reception on Friday for “Caught on Canvas: Views of Eastern Long Island Landscapes From the Wallace Collection, 1850-1935,” a show of a portion of his holdings through July 23 at the Clinton Academy. The Art Scene: 06.29.17

“American Masters” is opening Saturday at Mark Borghi in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be on view through mid-August. Grain Surfboards Gallery in Amagansett will present “Salty Drawers,” drawings, paintings, and scrimshaw by Paton Miller and Peter Spacek, two inveterate surfers, from Saturday through July 16. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and an artist chat will happen on July 8 at 7 p.m.

Jun 29, 2017
Mona Golabek will offer an evening of music and storytelling about her mother, a concert pianist who barely made it out of Nazi Germany, at Guild Hall on Sunday. Theater in Film and Music at Guild Hall

Two dramatic presentations and two evenings of lively music kick off at Guild Hall tonight at 8.

Jun 29, 2017
Elaine and Willem de Kooning looked like newlyweds in this intimate photo taken by Tony Vaccaro in 1953. Vaccaro's 1953 Visit to Springs at Pollock-Krasner

Several of Tony Vaccaro's photographs from a visit to Springs in 1953 had been lost for decades, but they recently resurfaced and are being shown at the Pollock-Krasner House.

Jun 29, 2017
Edward Albee and Jack Lenor Larsen at LongHouse A Portrait of Jack Larsen and the World He Made

Guild Hall will hold a premiere screening of “Larsenworld: LongHouse in East Hampton” tomorrow night at 8. The 23-minute film chronicles the many facets of the career and dreams of Jack Lenor Larsen, the noted textile designer and collector who established the LongHouse Foundation, now LongHouse Reserve, in 1991.

Jun 22, 2017
Cracked Actor Returns to Amagansett

Cracked Actor, a band that has performed the music of David Bowie since the shape-shifting musician’s death in January 2016, will reassemble on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. The group, which has featured musicians from various South Fork bands as well as the film composer Carter Burwell, plans to perform Bowie’s 1970 album “The Man Who Sold the World” in its entirety, along with several of his best-known songs.

Jun 22, 2017
The exterior of the old Amagansett Applied Arts building, which will host the Upstairs Art Fair in July Goodbye, Big Art Fairs, Hello, Cool New Venue

Taking place from July 14 to 16, the Upstairs Art Fair will have a salon feeling and include galleries from here or downtown New York City.

Jun 22, 2017
Jazz Alfresco: Kora on the Steps in Southampton

Jazz on the Steps will return to the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday at noon with a performance by Yacouba Sissoko, one of the world’s foremost players of the kora, a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.

Jun 22, 2017
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld Not Guilty, and Released Thanks to Them

On Sunday afternoon at 3, Guild Hall will host a panel discussion featuring Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the founders of the Innocence Project, and several of the people who have been found not guilty and freed.

Jun 22, 2017
Open Call for ‘Kate’

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold auditions for an August production of “Kiss Me Kate” on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the theater. The director, Will Pomerantz, and the associate producer, John Sullivan, are looking for male and female actors of all ethnic and racial backgrounds for 10 roles.

Jun 22, 2017
Two of last summer’s Pianofest students performed a duet at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater. Pianofest: An Injured Hand Spawns a Mighty Oak

Thirty years ago, Paul Schenly, an acclaimed classical pianist, injured a hand. From that acorn, the oak of Pianofest of the Hamptons grew. While Mr. Schenly was undergoing physical therapy in New York City, a friend suggested he escape its steamy summers and continue his recovery in the Hamptons.

Jun 22, 2017
Hulk Hogan was the plaintiff in litigation that brought down the media gossip site Gawker last year. The trial is featured in “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press.” Sating the Appetite: SummerDocs, Part 9

The Hamptons International Film Festival will continue its celebration of its 25th year with an expanded SummerDocs program this season, featuring five titles that will be presented in East Hampton, Montauk, and Southampton.

Jun 22, 2017
The Art Scene: 06.22.17

“Natural Selection,” an exhibition of work by artists who draw inspiration from nature, will be on view tomorrow through Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception will take place Saturday evening from 5 to 8. “Jeremy Dennis: On This Site,” a photography and research project by Mr. Dennis, who is a Shinnecock tribal member, will take place at the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum in Southampton from Saturday through Aug. 24. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Jun 22, 2017
Janice Stanton on the Croatian island of Cres with her camera and gear in tow. The Many Journeys of Janice Stanton

Janice Stanton took a long journey to arrive at her current place, one that moved through dance, intellectual property law, photography, and filmmaking.

Jun 22, 2017
Howard Kanovitz’s “Four A.M. E.S.T.” may include members of his own band, including the artist, at left on trombone, and his friend Larry Rivers next to him on sax. A 'Season Opener' Out of the Past

After immersing himself in the history of the South Fork artistic community and unearthing some of its long-forgotten gems, Eric Firestone is solidifying his place on the continuum of dealers who matter here.

Jun 15, 2017
Broadway Songbook

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will present “Darren Ottati: The Boys of Broadway” tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday afternoon at 2:30.

Jun 15, 2017
Pilobolus Guild Hall: New Season, New Direction

It won’t take a detective to notice a different feeling at Guild Hall this year. Exhibitions and public performances have a more heterogeneous focus, and that is intentional, according to Andrea Grover, the cultural center’s executive director.

Jun 15, 2017
Hispanic Music, Dance

The Montauk Library will present “Alegria Hispana: Songs and Dances of Spain and Latin America” on Saturday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The international artists Anna Tonna, a mezzo-soprano; Francisco Roldan, a virtuoso guitarist, and Elisabet Torras Aguilera, a dancer, will perform.

Jun 15, 2017
Jazz in Southampton

The Southampton Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Jam Session, will present a concert by the Peter & Will Anderson Quintet on Saturday evening at 7. The Anderson brothers are virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone. Adam Moezinia on guitar, Claes Brondal on drums, and Marcus McLaurine on bass round out the ensemble.

Jun 15, 2017
"Paton Miller" by Jonathan Morse Jonathan Morse Aims a Lens at Creativity

“Face to Face: East End Portraits by Jonathan Morse,” an exhibition organized by Peter Marcelle, will open tomorrow at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum and remain on view through July 12.

Jun 15, 2017
Jonah Broscow in “Man in the Ceiling” Jules Feiffer's Artistic Cri de Coeur in Sag Harbor

Dreams are the stuff of “The Man in the Ceiling,” a new musical by Andrew Lippa, from the book by Jules Feiffer, running now through June 25 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Jun 15, 2017
Drew Petersen will be spending much of the coming months in Manhattan as he pursues an advanced degree at the Juilliard School and makes his debut recording for the Steinway & Sons label. Piano Prodigy Shines Brighter Than Ever

Drew Petersen, a part-time Springs resident and a prodigy who first performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age 5, won the American Pianists Award and the Christel DeHaan Fellowship of the American Pianists Association.

Jun 15, 2017
The Art Scene: 06.15.17

“Botanic Verses,” an exhibition of paintings by Dominique Rousserie, will open at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton with a reception on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. and continue through July 10. Tonight from 5 to 8, Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of a one-night celebration of scenic art and Buddhist-inspired paintings by Lois Watts, an East Hampton artist with burdensome medical expenses. Nancy Atlas and Inda Eaton will perform, food and wine will be available, and both silent and Chinese auctions will be held. Tickets are $20 at the door.

Jun 15, 2017
E.T. Williams Jr. was flanked by a suite of woodcuts by Hale Woodruff and a colorful abstract painting by Claude Lawrence. A Collector Who Gave an Artist a Legacy

E.T. Williams, a retired, well-to-do real estate investor, and Claude Lawrence, an accomplished jazz-musician-turned-painter came to know each other through the extended African-American community in Sag Harbor and changed each other's lives for the better.

Jun 8, 2017
A Crooked Family Doc at Montauk Library

The Montauk Library will present “Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History,” a documentary produced by Rosanne Braun, a Montauk resident, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The film is based on Helene Stapinski’s memoir of the same title.

Jun 8, 2017
Classical Vocal Duo in Montauk

“Rosa Mystica,” a free concert by the vocal duo Kinga Cserjési, soprano, and Deborah Carmichael, mezzo-soprano, will take place at the Montauk Community Church at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Baroque instruments — two violins, a cello, a viola, and continuo — will accompany the singers.

Jun 8, 2017