Arts

Opera, brass, and soul at Bay Street, girl bands will live stream from the Talkhouse, an Oscar party complete with commentary, Latin Jazz at the Masonic Temple, a music trifecta in Riverhead, and more.

The Hamptons International Film Festival, set to expand to 11 days in October, is now accepting submissions. SummerDocs and outdoor screenings will return this summer.

A co-founder of the New Art Dealers Alliance and an art consultant, Sheri Pasquarella wanted to work in an organization connecting art and community, a goal fulfilled when she became executive director of The Church in Sag Harbor.

Renate Aller, April Gornik, and Susan Vecsey will discuss their work in the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition of women’s landscape paintings, and the Southampton History Museum is celebrating the Long Island Rail Road.

Guild Hall’s new exhibitions will feature mixed-media pieces by Darlene Charneco and photographs of artists who have lived and worked on the East End.

“Strictly Murder,” at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, is a World War II-era thriller by the author of “The Avengers” filled with lies, subterfuge, and murder.

“Love Letters” in Southampton, a lecture series at Madoo, highlighting Sag Harbor’s Eastville community at the Sag Harbor Cinema, and more.

Billy Joel’s “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first new song in 17 years, has drawn raves from a cross-section of South Fork listeners, among them WLIW-FM’s Brian Cosgrove, Cliff Young, a music journalist, and Mark Schiavoni, a guitarist for the Montauk Project.

“The Finest Kind” at Clinton Academy features photographs by Doug Kuntz and others, who captured the vanishing way of life of the South Fork’s baymen for the project that became “Men’s Lives.”

Love and passion return to Springs, birthday cakes for Romany Kramoris, plein-air painters in Bridgehampton, an exhibition tour at Southampton Arts Center, Linda Stein is solo in Manhattan, and American artists in Paris at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Museum.

The Moondogs cover the Beatles in Sag, a dance party at LTV, pop and funk at the Talkhouse, jazz at the temple, a disco dance party, a Rush tribute, Taylor Dayne in Riverhead, and more.

"Performance Con: Take One," a collaborative work-in-progress by Tess Dworman and Mel Elberg, will take place at The Church in Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

Appearing at The Church in Sag Harbor this weekend are D.J. Spooky, a multimedia artist, Bruce Wolosoff, a composer and pianist, and Dan Rizzie, a painter and printmaker.

A LongHouse lecture with Michael Arad and Paul Goldberger, landscape therapy with Edwina von Gal at Guild Hall, That Motown Band at Bay Street, drumming and jazz in Sag Harbor, a new single from Taylor Barton, the British invasion in Riverhead, and a grant application from East End Arts are in this week's cultural rundown.

“Look at the Book,” a new show at the Southampton Arts Center, features work by 33 artists and just as many different approaches to books and the written word.

The Church’s current print show highlights the art and craft of printmaking, focusing not only on the artists and printmakers of the South Fork, but displaying the tools, blocks, stones, plates, and states that go into the production of their work.

Sag Harbor’s Jonathan Morse has worn many hats, including architect, real estate developer, and motorcycle and sailboat racer, but for the past 35 years he has focused on photography, especially portraiture, as well as art book publishing and fine arts printing.

Shinnecock stories at Ma’s House, celebrating Frank Sofo in Springs, a sculptural valentine in Southampton, abstract collages at Estia’s Little Kitchen, Warhol screen tests on the Lower East Side, Roman watercolors at Marymount Manhattan College, 19th-century paintings at Rogers Memorial.

A program about madness and performance at The Church, a documentary about a jazz legend at the Parrish, All Star Comedy at Bay Street, and more.

John Slattery and Talia Balsam, who played a married couple in "Mad Men," and their son, Harry Slattery, will star together in “The Subject Was Roses” at Bay Street Theater this summer.

Her night job is dining room manager at Nick and Toni’s, but her day job is making paintings and watercolors capturing the atmosphere of the East End.

From its holdings of more than 200 works by Fairfield Porter, the Parrish Art Museum has selected 26 paintings and prints for its new exhibition, “Across the Avenues,” with the streets, brownstones, and neighborhoods of New York City as subjects.

Artists and plant experts talk flowers at Grenning Gallery, Lee Krasner and Dan Christensen in Chelsea, David Salle in Nyack, N.Y., paintings by Jim Durfee in Sag Harbor, Paul Thek goes to Pace.

Jazz from the Azar Lawrence Quintet in Southampton, Hopefully Forgiven and Mean Machine at the Talkhouse, the Roses Grove Band and jazz at the Masonic Temple, an AC/DC tribute band in Riverhead, and jazz at Pierre’s restaurant.

Boots on the Ground Theater will send a valentine to the community with "Love Letters," A.R. Gurney’s oft-produced play, at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Hector Leonardi continues to experiment with paint fragments on canvases, where the subject is the capacity of color itself.

Sag Harbor Cinema will raise money for a local filmmaker and gardening tips from the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

Amy and John Wickersham's scarf-designing project reflects each of their artistic inclinations, as well as their comfortable 42-year marriage.

Vintage maritime photos at Clinton Academy, Guild Hall on the road, Afrofuturism exhibit at Bay Street, Jeremy Dennis in Bridgehampton, Syn Martinez solo at Mark Borghi, a printmaking program at The Church, and much more.

A local reggae band takes the stage at Bay Street, Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads in Riverhead, and jazz performances in Sag Harbor and at the Parrish.