Arts

In a film festival double play, Alex Gibney’s epic documentary on Paul Simon and his new album, “Seven Psalms,” was followed by a conversation between Mr. Simon and Rolling Stone’s Dave Fear in which the singer-songwriter elaborated on his creative process and the arc of his career.

Will Ryan, an East Hampton artist with a house on Maui, has organized two fund-raisers for the fire-ravaged community of Lahaina, a music concert at Stephen Talkhouse and an art auction at AB NY Gallery.

Gabriele Raacke solo at Ashawagh, a retrospective for Sue Gussow at Cooper Union, Dennis Lawrence and Stephen Loschen at Lucore, Carl Bretzke and Viktor Butko at Grenning, and a documentary on three artists at Southampton Arts Center.

“Forgotten Founders: David Hempstead, Senior,” a documentary by two local filmmakers, focuses on both Hempstead, who was born a slave in 1774, freed in 1805, and went on to own a 95-acre farm on Shelter Island, and the Plain Sight Project, a nonprofit devoted to naming and recognizing the enslaved people of the East End.

A chamber music trio will perform works by Haydn, Ravel, and Martinu at the Carl Fisher House in Montauk.

“RE:CYCLE — The Ubiquitous Bicycle” will bring 19 vintage bicycles to The Church in Sag Harbor, along with a selection of fine-art photographs and video art devoted to that mode of transportation.

Jack Evans’s talk at The Church in Sag Harbor about his adaptation-in-progress of Peter Matthiessen’s novel “Far Tortuga” will also include a theatrical performance based on the script and a screening of the trailer.

Women from the New York School in new exhibit, author’s talk about an art world landmark, two painters at the Drawing Room, award for Lindsay Morris, a lecture and workshop at the Leiber Collection, an artist’s journey on film.

Bay Street will host a rock ’n’ roll concert with Nancy Atlas and her band and a documentary on Jewish resistance fighters in World War II.

HIFF film “This World Is Not My Own” is a creative documentary that illuminates the life and work of a self-taught Black artist with 3D animation and motion-capture technology, as well as archival materials and interviews.

Jennifer Esposito’s film “Fresh Kills” dramatizes the lives of the often-silenced women who married or were born into the world of organized crime in the 1980s and '90s on Staten Island, where the filmmaker was born and raised.

“The Chalk Garden” at Southampton Cultural Center, plant sale and members party at Madoo, concerts at LTV, Old Whalers Church, and Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, advice on fall gardens and sustainable lawn care.

Two HIFF features with local connections are “Ron Delsener Presents,” a documentary about the influential concert promoter who has a home in East Hampton, and “Rule of Two Walls,” a film about artists in Ukraine, exec-produced by the actor Liev Schreiber, a part-time East Ender.

“Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, and Hallucinations” is a deep dive into the art and life of Ms. Heilmann that eschews talking heads in favor of the artist’s forthright voice and her artwork.

Celebrating Bonac history and art at Duck Creek, Long Island Modernism talk at LongHouse, open calls from Bay Street and Center Stage, Alec Baldwin's live podcast, fund-raiser for Our Fabulous Variety Show, rock and jazz at the Masonic Temple.

Immigration in New York State is the theme of three eclectic music programs and a film series at the Montauk Library.

Well into a career in television production, and without an art background, Isabella Rupp decided to try her hand at glass art, a leap that turned into a 20-year deep dive yielding exhibitions, prizes, and a wide-ranging body of work.

Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor is featuring an exhibition of Peter Spacek’s scrimshawed drawings on fiberglass, surfboards repurposed as sea creatures, cartoons for The Star, and more.

“Lee Krasner: Portrait in Green” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center focuses on an important year for the artist, when she created one monumental painting and a series of gouaches.

Lauren West solo at Tripoli, seven watercolorists at Ashawagh Hall, Hiroyuki Hamada at the Parrish to discuss his Road Show, two painters at Keyes, mixed-media works at Lucore Gallery.

Robert Wilson, the Watermill Center’s founder and artistic director, was honored with four other prominent artists by Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton at the White House.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival is back, with four days of music, much of it free, scattered throughout the village in restaurants, shops, Steinbeck Park, Bay Street Theater, and just about everywhere else.

A “bird happening” at the Leiber Collection, Indigenous weaving workshop in Bridgehampton, Amy Wickersham solo, group shows at Ashawagh and the Ranch, artist talk at Guild Hall.

Indigenous music and Shinnecock celebration at Duck Creek, classical pianist and Joe Delia at the Montauk Library, auditions for the Choral Society of the Hamptons, dance-cinema in Southampton, four-hands piano recital.

The Sag Harbor Song Festival will bring six young opera stars to The Church in Sag Harbor for three programs of opera, operetta, musical theater, and more, with music ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Sondheim and Sonny Bono.

The wood sculptures of Jonathan Shlafer range from tall and sinewy to squat and abstract, tribalistic totems to biomorphic forms, all raw and unfinished, allowed to carry on a dialogue with nature’s weathering forces.

Bay Street Theater will host the Hamptons Comedy Festival, featuring four master comics, and present “Speak to Me,” the next entry in the ongoing Black Film Festival.

The current exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center, "Change Agents: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World," is a many layered thing. If ever an exhibition shared a multiplicity of viewpoints, backgrounds, and ideas, this would be it, even if its curators' focus is narrowed to artwork procured solely by women.

Offshore Art & Film will bring three days of screenings, artworks, and panel discussions to Montauk.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.