Arts

Doomsday paintings in Montauk, Jose Luis Vargas at Tripoli, a new duo at Nightingale, Phyllis Baker Hammond at J. Mackey, Guy Pene du Bois at Goldberg, Harper's in Paris, and other news and exhibitions in this week's Art Scene.

The documentary "Groucho & Cavett" looks back at the erudite talk shows of the late '60s and '70s through the lens of Dick Cavett's long-running program and his association and friendship with Groucho Marx.

"Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of 'Midnight Cowboy,' " which will have its East Coast premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, places the Oscar-winning film in the larger social, political, and cultural contexts of its time.

Drama, music, and literature at The Church, classical music at the Parrish Art Museum and Perlman Music campus, gender and justice panel at Watermill Center, sports memorabilia at Ashawagh Hall, and more in Bits.

Blending excerpts from Verdi's opera "Macbeth" with a story based on the 1849 Astor Place Riot, "The Shakespeare Riots" will come to the Bay Street stage as a world premiere operatic dramatization.

Judy Carmichael, the jazz pianist, vocalist, writer, and radio host, will celebrate the publication of her new book with a reception at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor.

Volker Schlöndorff's new documentary "The Forest Maker" follows an Australian agronomist to Africa, where for several decades he has implemented reforestation methods for farmers in arid areas.

Peter Hedges's pandemic-inspired new film "The Same Storm," which was shot entirely on personal computers, phones, and in the homes of the 24 actors, spans the emotions from sorrow to hilarity.

Next up at The Church is an exhibition of rare and classic guitars selected by G.E. Smith and a display of bronze sculptures of the hands of 31 American visual artists.

At the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, the hand-carved surfaces of Sally Richardson's wood and stone sculptures communicate as much as their shapes, while the layered materials of Jesse McCloskey's pieces vacillate between figuration and abstraction.

Irina Alimanestianu and Brian O'Leary at MM Fine Art, group shows at the Gardiner Mill Cottage and White Room, eight East Enders in the Long Island Biennial at the Heckscher, Nicole Corbett at Colm Rowan Fine Art

Janis Joplin tribute concert at Bay Street, auditions announced for new Choral Society singers, wine and roses benefit for the Southampton Cultural Center, Sag Harbor walking tour, Louis Malle film at Pollock-Krasner House.

As part of its Julie Andrews retrospective, Ms. Andrews will attend a screening of "Mary Poppins," and the cinema has mounted an exhibit related to the personal and professional relationship of Ms. Andrews and Tony Walton.

Nicole Corbett, an artist who lives in Springs, creates large ceramic moon jars, a genre that originated in Korea, that she glazes with swipes of her long hair dripping with paint.

A curiosity for history, particularly of Long Island and the East End, led Emily Sundberg on a quest to find out more about Gardiner's Island, resulting in a new documentary, "The End."

Nine months after filming wrapped in Wainscott, the comedy "Who Invited Charlie?", whose cast and crew includes East Enders, will have its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

The film festival's hits just keep on coming, including a conversation with Chelsea Clinton about "Gutsy," her eight-part documentary about influential women, and four just-announced films.

Work by 80 artists from 20 countries will celebrate the majesty and ecological significance of trees in a new exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center.

Solo shows for Laurie Lambrecht, Ellen Frank, Mark William Wilson, and Susan Fisher, panel on Indigenous sovereignty at the Parrish, group shows at Keyes Art and Ashawagh, Mary Heilmann in print

Markie Hancock's documentary "The Power of Community: How One Town Stood Against Domestic Violence" is a compelling, sad, yet hopeful hourlong journalistic journey into a community that came together to build a domestic violence shelter.

Chris Byrne is a co-founder of the Dallas Art Fair and has served on various museum boards, but his obsession is visionary artists, self-taught and otherwise, to whom he has devoted exhibitions, publications, even residencies at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton.

Bay Street sprints into fall with Robin Leacock's documentary about philanthropy, the Long Island Comedy Festival, and workshops in improv, ballroom dancing, and on-camera acting.

Landscape awards lunch at Longhouse, award-winning drama in Montauk, PechaKucha returns to Parrish, benefits for Sag Cinema and Variety Show, Jamie Foxx in "Django Unchained"

The 30th Hamptons International Film Festival will feature talks with the directors Chris Columbus and Martin McDonagh, and more than 100 films from 34 countries, including East Coast premieres and some never before shown publicly.

The Thumbscrew Trio will bring its original compositions and tight jazz harmonics to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival will bring four days of free concerts by more than 30 bands to the village.

The first annual Sag Harbor Song Festival will feature four concerts by rising opera stars of music ranging from Handel and Wagner to Sondheim and Bernstein.

Solo shows at Pace Gallery and Mark Borghi, watercolors at Ashawagh Hall, resident artists' presentations at Watermill Center, painting exhibitions at Grenning, Colm Rowan, and Lucore Art

The Hamptons International Film Festival, which is celebrating 30 years with a full and expanded 10-day schedule, announced its entire slate of films and events on Friday.

A Pollock-Krasner House exhibition illuminates the life and work of Harold Lehman, an early friend of Jackson Pollock known for his socially conscious work of the 1930s, especially a massive mural on Rikers Island, now gone.