Arts

The Southampton Art Center's “Change Agents: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World” features more than 60 artworks by both established and emerging artists from the holdings of 14 intrepid women.

During a time of crisis, Priscilla Rattazzi, a successful photographer, focused her creative energies on three ancient linden trees on her East Hampton property, which resulted in a book and exhibition of the images by the Peter Marino Art Foundation.

Benefits for the Watermill Center, Wings Over Haiti, and the Perlman Music Program, film fest in Montauk, rock at the East Hampton Library, film program at Southampton Arts Center, choral singing workshop at Southampton Cultural Center.

“Creative Exchanges” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs uses the artists’ address books to tell the story of their wide circle of friends through artworks and ephemera by noteworthy cultural figures.

The takeaways from a live recording of a podcast featuring Bobbi Brown at The Church in Sag Harbor are that sometimes even successful people, like a cosmetics mogul, can benefit from a change of direction, and that living a normal life well can be the greatest success of all.

Large-scale monochromatic drawings by Tara Geer and repurposed slides from 1960s Antarctica by William Eric Brown are coming to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host a reading and book signing by its writer-in-residence, an open mic night of poetry, prose, fiction, and more, and a jazz concert by a noted Punjabi musician.

The Hamptons Fine Art Fair is back in Southampton and bigger than ever, with 130 galleries and a roster of special programs.

The final HamptonsFilm’s SummerDoc for this year is “Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” which covers the folk singer and activist’s early years, her impending fame, her relationship with Bob Dylan, and life in the spotlight.

Another busy week at the galleries, with group shows at Tripoli, Halsey McKay, Grenning, and Jack Hanley, solos at the White Room, Harper’s, and Ashawagh Hall, plus an artist’s talk at The Church.

The East Hampton Antiques and Design Show, benefiting the East Hampton Historical Society, will have some 50 dealers setting up tents this weekend.

Beethoven’s music is one of the themes of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, which also highlights six works commissioned by the festival, and composers ranging from Mozart and Haydn to Dvorak to Debussy and Copland.