Arts

A discussion about “toxic achievement culture,” a performance by the Harlem Gospel Choir, and a program of short documentaries are coming to the Southampton Arts Center.

In addition to five world premiere screenings, this year’s Hamptons Film Festival will include “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” a documentary by Alex Gibney, and a new drama by Todd Haynes starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.

"The idea of looking at something for a minute, appalls me," said Dorothy Wiggins, who at 98 has amassed a combined 65,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram. Still, there she is in the virtual playground of teenagers, enjoying something that few people do on social media: near universal love. 

The first Black Authors Festival will bring eight prominent writers and entrepreneurs from around the country to Sag Harbor’s Breakwater Yacht Club for food, music, readings, a fashion show, and more.

The Gyrotonic Method, a form of exercise that stretches and strengthens the body and develops coordination, can be experienced at the Seed Center in East Hampton, a studio owned by Charley Aldred, a former professional ballet dancer.

The annual Box Art Auction benefit for East End Hospice will feature inventive and dramatic transformations of cigar or wine boxes by more than 80 artists.

Sutton Lynch, an aerial photographer specializing in marine life, spends his days at Atlantic Avenue Beach monitoring the images captured by his drone from high above the water, about 400 yards out from the shore.

Ariana DeBose in Southampton, Melissa Errico at Bay Street, surfing event in Montauk, Black film classic at Sag Cinema, Hamptons Dance Project alfresco, jazz at the Parrish, and Japanese music at Duck Creek.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host a curators' tour of its “Artists on Boxing” exhibition, a reading by Philip Schultz, a workshop devoted to Indian hand drums, a jazz concert, and a writing workshop with Star Black.

South Etna returns for a benefit show at the Carl Fisher House, The Ranch pops up at Gosman's, two-artist exhibitions open at several venues, group shows headed to Harper's, Tripoli and the Depot, and Louis Eisner at the Fireplace Project.

As the Hampton Classic approaches, the timing is right for “Equestrian Life in the Hamptons,” a new coffee-table book by Blue Carreon that is chock full of images and text that tell the story promised by its title.

The second iteration of the Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Parrish” exhibitions features selections made by contemporary artists from the museum’s permanent collection that reflect their connections to the chosen artists or artworks.

The 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival will open with “Nyad,” a narrative feature starring Annette Bening as Diana Nyad, the marathon swimmer who swam from Cuba to Florida at the age of 64.

The Hamptons Festival of Music will bring five orchestral events to East Hampton, starting with orchestral accompaniment to a silent Charlie Chaplin film, continuing with Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" at LongHouse, and concluding with three concerts at LTV Studios.

Leo Villareal, whose large-scale LED light installation is at Guild Hall, has been using subtly moving sequences of LED light to create monumental public artworks around the world for more than 20 years.

Reimagined Shakespeare and a book event at LongHouse, multi-disciplinary performance at Madoo, piano and song at LTV, Black Film Fest at the Parrish, architecture panel at Watermill Center, a mentalist and music at a Southampton benefit.

The musical “Sammy and Me,” coming to Bay Street Theater, is in part a portrait of Sammy Davis Jr.’s music and his legacy, and in part Eric Jordan Young’s self-portrait as a young Black man (and fan of Davis) trying to break into the entertainment industry.

“Joan Baez I Am a Noise” draws from Ms. Baez’s vast personal archive as well as extensive conversations with the singer and footage of her farewell tour to create a rich portrait of her personal and professional life.

Paul Davis posters at Bay Street, solo shows at the Southampton African American Museum, Keyes Art, Lucore Art, and Grenning. Plus art, fashion, and wine at J. Mackey, the annual quilt show in Water Mill, new art barn in Bridgehampton, and more.

The new show at Lisa Perry’s Onna House features the work of six women artists working in a variety of materials and mediums in the search for beauty.

“Tales From the Guttenberg Bible” is a funny, fast-moving memoir of Steve Guttenberg’s rise to Hollywood fame, deepened by Mr. Guttenberg’s affection for his parents and sparked by three supporting actors who play dozens of characters.

Group shows at Eric Firestone, Hauser & Wirth, and Ezra galleries, Berry Campbell Gallery pops up in Bridgehampton, Noel de Lesseps, Kan Seidel, Bob Tabor, and Lou Spitalnick in solo shows, new gallery at Gosman's Dock in Montauk.

Isaac Mizrahi, whose second act is as a cabaret performer, is up next in the Music Mondays series at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater.

James Brooks, an Abstract Expressionist painter who with his wife Charlotte Park was integral to the New York School and the East End art community, is having a career-spanning retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum.

“Susan Wood: On Location,” an exhibition at the Sag Harbor Cinema, highlights the work of the magazine photographer on the sets of such iconic 1960s films as “Hatari!”, “Mirage,” and “Easy Rider.”

Opera master class and performance from Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp, Stephen Sills and David Netto at the historical society’s summer luncheon, Isaac Mizrahi onstage at Bay Street, classical piano at LongHouse, Broadway producers’ panel in Southampton.

A busy week at the Church in Sag Harbor will feature Susan Lacy, a film producer-director, Janet Wallach, an author, and, for a dose of jazz, the Matt Wilson Quartet.

The three concerts of Music for Montauk’s summer music series will range from Brahms to shorter chamber pieces to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Puerto Rican music stylings.

South Asian music at Duck Creek in Springs, live reggae in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, piano from Hamptons Jazz Fest at LTV and the Parrish Art Museum.

The East Hampton Historical Society's Summer Lecture Luncheon will bring the interior designers Stephen Sills and David Netto to the Maidstone Club in East Hampton for a conversation next Thursday at 11 a.m.