Arts

A co-founder of the New Art Dealers Alliance and an art consultant, Sheri Pasquarella wanted to work in an organization connecting art and community, a goal fulfilled when she became executive director of The Church in Sag Harbor.

The Hamptons International Film Festival, set to expand to 11 days in October, is now accepting submissions. SummerDocs and outdoor screenings will return this summer.

“Strictly Murder,” at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, is a World War II-era thriller by the author of “The Avengers” filled with lies, subterfuge, and murder.

Renate Aller, April Gornik, and Susan Vecsey will discuss their work in the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition of women’s landscape paintings, and the Southampton History Museum is celebrating the Long Island Rail Road.

“Love Letters” in Southampton, a lecture series at Madoo, highlighting Sag Harbor’s Eastville community at the Sag Harbor Cinema, and more.

Billy Joel’s “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first new song in 17 years, has drawn raves from a cross-section of South Fork listeners, among them WLIW-FM’s Brian Cosgrove, Cliff Young, a music journalist, and Mark Schiavoni, a guitarist for the Montauk Project.

The Moondogs cover the Beatles in Sag, a dance party at LTV, pop and funk at the Talkhouse, jazz at the temple, a disco dance party, a Rush tribute, Taylor Dayne in Riverhead, and more.

“The Finest Kind” at Clinton Academy features photographs by Doug Kuntz and others, who captured the vanishing way of life of the South Fork’s baymen for the project that became “Men’s Lives.”

Love and passion return to Springs, birthday cakes for Romany Kramoris, plein-air painters in Bridgehampton, an exhibition tour at Southampton Arts Center, Linda Stein is solo in Manhattan, and American artists in Paris at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Museum.

"Performance Con: Take One," a collaborative work-in-progress by Tess Dworman and Mel Elberg, will take place at The Church in Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

A LongHouse lecture with Michael Arad and Paul Goldberger, landscape therapy with Edwina von Gal at Guild Hall, That Motown Band at Bay Street, drumming and jazz in Sag Harbor, a new single from Taylor Barton, the British invasion in Riverhead, and a grant application from East End Arts are in this week's cultural rundown.

The Church’s current print show highlights the art and craft of printmaking, focusing not only on the artists and printmakers of the South Fork, but displaying the tools, blocks, stones, plates, and states that go into the production of their work.