Arts

A second annual benefit program for the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, “The Cozy Side of Beethoven: An Intimate Concert,” will be performed tomorrow, featuring some of the master’s well-loved favorites and some of his less-well-known vocal works.

Django Festival Allstars at Guild Hall, here comes Pianofest, "Mailing Whaling" opens at Whaling Museum, and more.

“One Night in Central Park,” a two-hour examination of the Central Park jogger, made extensive use of courtroom drawings by Marilyn Church, now they are in an opera about the case playing in Southern California.

 “G.E. Smith’s Portraits,” now in its fourth iteration, was conceived in 2015 and produced by Taylor Barton as a series of intimate evenings featuring actors, painters, and fellow musicians. Its first concert of the year will feature Loudon Wainwright III and John Wesley Harding at Guild Hall.

Bill O’Connell, a pianist who lives in Montauk and Rockland County, is one of very few non-Latinos to make significant contributions to the Latin jazz movement.

New installations of Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Talasnik at LongHouse and new shows at Ille, Rental, White Room, Ashawagh, Estia, Keyes, and Markel.

There is a sense of tangible danger in recent years on the South Fork. This peril does not derive from a murder or a slew of rip currents, although those are sobering in their own right. This precariousness stems from a material loss that carries a metaphysical threat, a loss of identity.

The question that came to mind over and over again while watching “Maiden,” the first SummerDocs offering of the 2019 season, was “Can this really be 1989?” 

“Safe Space,” a new play by Alan Fox having its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor next week, explores the detonation of issues related to identity politics, racism, and political correctness on the campus of an elite American university.

The latest gallery arrival on Amagansett's Main Street is ARC Fine Art, an import from Connecticut with ties to the region. Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, its proprietor, has been coming to East Hampton for many years and showing art informally on the East End in pop-up spaces. She has decided to formalize that relationship.

For 35 years, Andrew Visconti has been the American correspondent for an Italian news syndicate. But now he is turning his energies to writing a memoir and wants to help others pursue the same goal.

New shows at Harper's Books, Studio 11, Ashawagh Hall, Grain Surfboards, and other venues