Arts

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's summer series will feature celebrated works of the classical canon, two premieres, and a commission, all linked in some way with words.

LongHouse will host an evening of conversations about humanity's capacity for growth and healing, a bonsai workshop, and an exhibition of innovative garden containers.

Santi Debriano, an acclaimed jazz bassist, will bring his ensemble to The Church in Sag Harbor for a program rooted in global jazz traditions.

G.E. Smith, the guitarist and former bandleader on "Saturday Night Live," will be joined at Guild Hall by two other late-night bandleaders, Louis Cato and Paul Shaffer.

Solo shows for Claire Watson, Darius Yektai, Fitzhugh Karol, and Haim Mizrahi, Bryan Hunt talk at The Church, Ikebana workshop at WACH, a plethora of group shows.

Music for Montauk has invited four musicians from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music to perform a recital at East Hampton's Presbyterian Church.

Lauren Shooster has opened Shooster Arts & Literature in Sag Harbor, a gallery of fine art, antiques, and rare books from her own collection of artifacts.

The East Hampton Historical Society's annual Antiques and Design Show benefit will feature antiques, prints, art, furniture, and more from 50 dealers.

Lee Roy Reams, an actor, singer, and dancer, celebrates his friendship with Lauren Bacall, while the Django Festival Allstars pay tribute to the music of Django Reinhardt.

HIFF reveals festival poster, jazz and tango in Southampton, benefits for LongHouse, OLA, and Bay Street, Jake Lear brings the blues.

On the 50th anniversary of her father's famous novel, Caroline Doctorow has put together a multimedia event that illuminates her father, the novel, and how its themes resonate today more than ever.

Guild Hall will host a chamber music recital, a conference on landscape architecture and interior design, a visit from the Dogist and lots of canines, and a talk about "Saturday Night Live."

The Fireplace Project in Springs will open its final season there with solo exhibitions of work by Lana Kova and Curtis Kulig.

Joy Behar's new comedy, "My First Ex-Husband," brings "razor sharp wit, charm, and charisma" to Bay Street Theater.

The work of six abstract painters is coming to Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

Artist talk in Springs, analyzing Bourgeois's spiders, classic car recreations at the Parrish, outdoor sculpture in Southampton, painting classes, blue-chip artists in new exhibition space.

An 18-foot-tall elephant balancing on its trunk, a horse made of mud and sticks, and a 12-foot spider are only three of the more than 50 animal sculptures assembled for "The Ark" at The Church in Sag Harbor.

Outdoor screenings from HamptonsFilm, jazz duo at Montauk Library, comedy at Southampton Cultural Center, Ma's House benefit, jazz night at the Masonic Temple.

Guild Hall will host a concert by Julian Lage, a guitar virtuoso, and Jorge Roeder, an acclaimed bassist, and the Gibney Dance Company will perform works by three prominent choreographers.

Thousands of art enthusiasts and 120 galleries and exhibitors will descend on Southampton for the four-day Hamptons Fine Art Fair.

Sag Harbor Cinema launches an exhibition of Mark Friedberg's production designs and a film series on the directors of "The New Hollywood."

LTV's Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea will kick off with the legendary vocalist Marilyn Maye performing "A 100th Birthday Tribute to Johnny Carson" — and, at 97, she's still going strong.

"A Painter's Holiday" at Keyes Art features four notable Abstract Expressionists and four contemporary artists.

Small Works at the Springs Library will feature works in a variety of styles and mediums by 25 artists.

Subversive portraits at Harper's, small works at Springs Library, group shows at Eric Firestone, Keyes Art, and Women's Art Center, Eric Dever in Chelsea, two shows at Halsey McKay.

Bay Street Theater's production of "Deceived" is a new adaptation of "Gaslight," the play and movie about a husband trying to drive his wife crazy in order to steal from her.

Classical piano in Montauk, jazz at Duck Creek, flower arrangement at Madoo, Nancy Atlas at the Masonic Temple, Pianofest is back, Motown magic in Southampton.

Louise Bourgeois documentary at the Sag Harbor Cinema, Eric Fischl and Amy Sillman in conversation at The Church.

Michele Gerber Klein will be at LongHouse to talk about and sign copies of her new book about Gala Dali, wife of the painter Salvador Dali and ambassador of the Surrealist movement.

Alok, an acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker, actor, and fashion designer, will bring "Hairy Situation," a new, "unfiltered" standup show, to Guild Hall.