Arts

Linda Eder, Questlove, and a sold-out David Sedaris reading at Guild Hall this week.

A frequent visitor to the South Fork, Walter Plate spent most of each year in Woodstock, N.Y., where he settled after serving in World War II. But that didn’t keep him from absorbing the same inspiration from the East End as his associates Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, and Herman Cherry, a mentor.

“I don’t like art that is like somebody else’s stuff,” said Candace Hill Montgomery during a conversation in her Bridgehampton backyard. “I have a real hatred of things that are not original. Does it reference somebody else’s work? That’s fine. But not when it’s basically a copy.”

Time for the Springs Invitational organized by Peter Spacek, Artist Alliance tour, Steampunk, new at Grennig, and more

LaChanze first stepped onto a Broadway stage in 1990 in the musical “Once on This Island” and lost no time launching a career that hasn’t slowed down since.

Chefs such as Claudia Fleming, Jason Weiner, Christian Mir, Alex Guarnaschelli, and others will come together on Sunday to fete Jon Snow, a founder of the Hayground School and its summer camp, who has run the garden there and helped connect it to cooking as a central component of the Hayground curriculum.

New environmental film festival in Montauk, Laurie Anderson at Ross School, a drama set at Camp Hero, and more

The Watermill Center’s Viewpoints lecture series, which draws speakers from diverse disciplines to discuss ideas and issues important to contemporary discourse, will launch next Thursday with Penny Arcade.

The Perlman Music Program is observing its 25th anniversary this year, a celebration of outstanding musical achievement and the development of a year-round educational, nurturing, supportive community of musicians.

Studio tours, Ann Temkin talk, Claude Lawrence at Keyes, new group at Grain Surfboards, and more

There is a much to see and admire in “Compendium Part II” at Mark Borghi Fine Art in Bridgehampton with a few standouts in the mix of postwar and contemporary art.

Dining, creativity, surfing, and roots music are on Guild Hall’s cultural menu this week, starting Sunday morning, when “Stirring the Pot,” a series of culinary-centric conversations, will feature Tim and Nina Zagat, who founded the Zagat Survey 40 years ago. Initially a collection of reviews of New York City restaurants by diners, the survey at its height included 70 cities. In 2011, Google acquired it for $125 million.