Arts

As the Hamptons International Film Festival has grown, so has its commitment, through its signature programs, to films that engage a range of social and political issues. This year’s festival, which will take place Oct. 6 through Oct. 10, will include the 17th iteration of Films of Conflict and Resolution, the second Compassion, Justice, and Animal Rights program, and a new signature program, Air, Land, and Sea.

The Southampton Arts Center will conclude its summer music programs with free outdoor concerts by the HooDoo Loungers on Saturday at 6 p.m. and Jazz on the Steps with Bill Smith on piano and Baron Lewis on trumpet on Sunday at noon.

Guild Hall’s summer season will close this weekend with two very different musical performances. Suzanne Vega, a singer-songwriter whose voice is as distinct as her music, will perform Saturday at 8 p.m. Details of her concert can be found elsewhere on this page.

As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial, Terry Tempest Williams, a conservationist, activist, and writer, asked the question, in an article published in The Los Angeles Times, “Will Our National Parks Survive the Next 100 Years?”

Suzanne Vega, a singer-songwriter who has forged a three-decades-plus career in an ever-shifting musical landscape, said “a mix of old and new songs” from her extensive catalog is in store when she performs at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Christopher French will have an exhibition of his new work at the Drawing Room in East Hampton. In his new work, symmetry has given way to pointed shafts of refracted color that surge across the canvas from distinct vortices like beams of colored light. The show will open tomorrow and remain on view through Oct. 3. The Southampton Artists Association’s annual Labor Day show is on view through Sept. 11 at the Southampton Cultural Center. A reception will take place Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

The media, particularly cable news, loves the horse-race aspect of elections, so much so that they devote hours of airtime to the speculation of who will run for president five minutes after the current president has been inaugurated. This election cycle brought the usual frenzy, but then it trebled with the announcement last year that Donald Trump would run.

A limited number of tickets remain for Bobby Collins’s performance at Bay Street Theater’s Comedy Club in Sag Harbor on Monday at 8 p.m.

Some artists discover their medium and stick with it. Throughout most of her career, Carol Ross has shifted artistic gears with apparent ease between wood reliefs, metal sculpture, drawing, and painting. “I’m an artist who changes a lot,” she said during a recent conversation in Guild Hall’s sculpture garden, where her large aluminum pieces can be seen through Oct. 1. A selection of her wood reliefs is also on view in Guild Hall’s Wasserstein Family Gallery.

When Jill Musnicki says “I’m very much into nature,” it’s no wonder. A fourth-generation East Ender whose ancestors were Bridgehampton and Sagaponack farmers, the local terrain was her birthright. For the past five years, that legacy has informed her artwork.

Kinnaman and Ramaekers in Bridgehampton will introduce Grace Coddington’s newly issued perfume, “Grace,” with a reception on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.

Jazz at Lincoln Center will return to the Southampton Arts Center for a free outdoor concert on Saturday at 4 p.m. The program takes traveling professional jazz ensembles to communities to lead interactive performances for students and families.

The Southampton Cultural Center will present “Broadway Beats,” an evening of Broadway-inspired singing and dancing by Our Fabulous Variety Show, on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Agawam Park. Picnics, blankets, and lawn chairs will be welcomed.

See the mysterious paintings of Jennifer Cross at the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton. Haunting interiors and landscapes, inhabited not by people but by dreamlike objects and images suggest narratives and pique the imagination. A reception is set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. An exhibition of painting and sculpture by Jeff Muhs will open today at Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor and continue through Sept. 13. A reception will be held Saturday evening from 6 to 8.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will conclude its Jazz en Plein Air season with an outdoor performance by the Philippe Lemm Trio tomorrow evening at 6. Consisting of Mr. Lemm on drums, Jeff Koch on bass, and Angelo Di Loreto on piano, the group will draw from its repertory of traditional jazz, music influenced by progressive rock and classical, and their own arrangements of jazz standards.

It's been 50 years since "Sunshine Superman" was number one on the Billboard charts. Donovan Leitch, the singer-songwriter and 1960s pop sensation, is being celebrated in Los Angeles on Sept. 2. He will open his tour here first, however, at Guild Hall on Aug. 30.

It has been 16 years since supporters of East End Hospice first asked regional artists to create unique works of art from small, unadorned boxes that could be put up for auction to benefit the organization.

We are all accustomed to seeing boldface names associated with the South Fork: Alec, Jimmy, Gwyneth, Sir Paul, et al. Yet, there is something fresh and pulse-quickening about the faces and names of a different century: Pablo, Jean, Cole, Man Ray, Ernest, Scott, and Zelda lighting up the current exhibition “Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy” at Clinton Academy in East Hampton.

The world premiere of “Andromeda,” a production of Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls, will take place outdoors at the Montauk County Park from next Thursday through Aug. 28.

A Hip to Hip Theatre production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” will be presented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Agawam Park in Southampton. It will be followed by “As You Like It” on Saturday at the same time. The free program is being offered by the Southampton Cultural Center.

Migguel Anggelo and his band, the Immigrants, will perform a free concert on the outdoor stage of the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 6 p.m. The group has recently returned from Russia, where it shared a vibrant fusion of Latin and American culture in sold-out shows in concert halls and music festivals and performed at the home of the U.S. ambassador.

When Edwina von Gal, the landscape designer who founded the Perfect Earth Project, throws a party, you can bet that the music will be top-notch, and the lineup for her nonprofit’s biennial family picnic and concert on Labor Day weekend is a case in point.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s 2016 Summerdocs series will conclude on Aug. 27 at Guild Hall with a 7 p.m. screening of “A Perfect Candidate,” a 1996 documentary by R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor about the 1994 Virginia senatorial race between Oliver North, above, and Charles Robb.

The Parrish Road Show, the museum’s off-site series of summer exhibitions, will present “Permanent Transience,” an installation by Toni Ross, at Marders in Bridgehampton from Saturday through Sept. 5. Ms. Ross will be at the site on Sunday at 11 a.m. to discuss her work.

With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, patrons are flocking to Guild Hall for an innovative series of end-of-summer performances. Only a handful of tickets remain for “New York City Ballet On and Off Stage,” an intimate look at the ballet company hosted by Jared Angle, a principal dancer, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The evening will include commentary by Mr. Angle as well as excerpts from the company’s repertory performed by him and fellow dancers. Tickets are priced from $45 to $100, $43 to $95 for members.

“The Sonic Garden Party,” a presentation of LongHouse Reserve’s Junior Council, will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the East Hampton reserve and sculpture garden.

The Montauk Artists’ Association will hold its 22nd annual juried fine art show on the Montauk Green tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Christopher Engel, an artist and teacher who incorporates Jungian philosophy and techniques in his arts workshops, will open at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor, today through Sept. 1 at . A reception will be held Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30.

Christopher John Campion's performance opening for M. Ward at the Stephen Talkhouse brought him full circle to the night he first set foot there for a Buddy Guy show in 1988.

The Amagansett Library will continue its centennial-year celebration with a performance by Katherine C.H.E., a singer and library trustee, today at 6 p.m. in the community room.

Two concerts with imaginative programming and outstanding performances marked the beginning of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s 33rd season. One was an overview of a great composer’s life and music, and the other was a sampling of shorter, lighter pieces that are not often heard.