Arts

Isao Yoshimura learned how to cook and prepare sushi with one of the first sushi masters to come to America and is now a private chef on the East End.

HamptonsFilm accepting Screenwriters Lab applications, Guild Hall workshop on Indigenous culture, Black Film Fest focus on Haiti, Shinnecock History talk in Springs, music three ways in Sag, benefit at Southampton Cultural Center, Native plants lecture.

Rashid Johnson’s sculptural installation, a massive shelving unit holding books, ceramics, lights, plants, and much more, will connect the Whitney Museum’s new Frenchette Bakery with the museum’s lobby and the community outside.

Roy Lichtenstein’s centenary was marked the launch of the artists’s catalogue raisonne, a postage stamp, the declaration of Roy Lichtenstein Day in New York City, and the completion of the renovation of his former Manhattan studio into the home of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Solo shows for Jeremy Dennis, Pat Lipsky, and David Slater, quilting workshop at The Church in Sag Harbor, White Room Gallery moves to East Hampton.

The Church has a talk by the founders of a local Spanish-language media organization and an evening of music and dance by local Latinx artists this weekend.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

A classically trained Russian artist brings her complex surrealistic paintings to a Montauk gallery.

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials as an allegory targeting McCarthyism, is next up in Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series with two and a half weeks of public performances and daytime shows for school groups.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

Hamptons Doc Fest tickets on sale, Carl Safina plays jazz, Steve Taub talks television, and four comedians in a Southampton showcase in Bits.

Dante Nero is a trained martial artist and Mike King is a pediatric dentist, but both will bring their comic chops to Bay Street Theater.