Arts

Although no domestic release date has been set, “Good Posture,” a film by Dolly Wells starring her friend Emily Mortimer of Amagansett, will open in the United Kingdom on Friday, Oct. 4.

A festival of short films, a salute to Toni Morrison, and a classical music concert.

Rental Gallery in East Hampton has once again given itself over to Kenny Schachter, a dealer, artist, curator, and writer. Instead of a solo exhibition, however, “Summer Rental” is a group show revolving around his central sun.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will host a Landscape Awards lunch on Saturday honoring Amy Goldman Fowler, Charles and Kathleen Marder, Lynden Miller, and Thomas Woltz.

Explaining how the East End Special Players developed their newest production, Jacqui Leader, the group’s artistic director, said, “We try to work with the actors about what their real feelings are about their lives and what their dreams are.”

A new generation of art critics sit down for a chat, Folioeast pops up at Ashawagh, a Paraskevas retrospective in Southampton, and more.

Ugo Rondinone, a Swiss artist who has an exhibition on view at Guild Hall and a house in Mattituck, will sponsor a multi-lot benefit auction during Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated sale next Thursday.

Strong-Cuevas’s studio is like a museum. Large-scale sculpture surrounds her house and a vast two-level indoor studio showcases more than five decades of work.

The Hamptons International Film Festival released its full schedule this week online and in a printed guide (available as an insert in this week's Star). Announcements about the program have been trickling out slowly, so some of this information may sound familiar, but it is worth repeating before individual tickets go on sale.

A young, naked woman with a cast on her left hand sits inside a bathtub filled with bubbles. This is a Guild Hall show but she isn’t onstage in the theater. She’s in a real, functioning bathroom inside an East Hampton house with the audience around her.

Steinberg Returns

“Saul Steinberg: Drawings, Watercolors, and Objects” will open Friday at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Oct. 21. Organized in collaboration with the Saul Steinberg Foundation, the exhibition will highlight Steinberg’s original use of materials, iconic imagery, and wit.

Eric Fischl has produced a powerful piece of artwork that represents “the madness of the moment,” he said, referring to the immigration crisis at the southern border.

What can we learn from the third iteration of Eric Firestone Gallery’s copious exhibition “Montauk Highway,” now on view in East Hampton? Quite a lot, it turns out.

A tribute to the composer Jule Styne at Guild Hall, and “Othello” at Bay Street.

On Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will open “Slack Tide,” a group exhibition featuring seven artists who work in a variety of mediums. The term “slack tide” describes a state when little to no tidal movement is detectable.

The actor, philanthropist, podcaster, game show host, and all-round South Fork gadfly will be the subject of the sass and barbs of Robert De Niro, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, and others on Comedy Central Sunday.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will screen Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” as its Friday Centerpiece film on Oct. 11, and the festival has announced several other titles that will be featured during its main event over Columbus Day weekend.

Terry Elkins’s road to the potato barn in Sagaponack where he lives and works has taken many turns. Like the artists John Alexander and Dan Rizzie, Mr. Elkins moved north from Texas. One of the incentives for that move was a chance meeting with Willem de Kooning.

The summer season has ended, but Guild Hall hasn’t gotten the message. A trio of music programs and a solo performance that takes place in a bathtub are on the calendar for the coming week, starting tomorrow evening at 8 with a performance by the composer and pianist Bruce Wolosoff and his daughter, Juliet Garrett, a singer-songwriter.

‘Who Gets to Call It Art?” is a sprawling collage of a film. Made in 2006, it has a style not unlike the era it covers, jerky and jump-cut with a groovy garage band soundtrack.

New exhibitions of Giard and Guild Hall volunteers, local artists travel to New York and Halifax, a new film series on Van Gogh, and more

Two years ago, Sara De Luca, the proprietor of Ille Arts in Amagansett, discovered that early September, when the weather is still lovely and the roads are relatively passable, is an ideal time for a circuit of artists’ studios.

Like a rolling stone, Michael Weiskopf has been on the move. Last year, he recorded a fourth solo release. He has recently lived in Portugal, performed in Slovenia’s two largest cities and elsewhere in Europe, and written a book.

Concerts, auditions, a weekend doc film fest, new classes at Bay Street, and more

“Paradise,” Edsel Williams's latest exhibition at the Fireplace Project in Springs, features Andrew Brischler and Lee Relvas, who are getting notice for their individual showings in galleries and art fairs, but who also seem as if they are on the precipice of something bigger.

The artist Neke Carson has always defied convention and shifted art's shapes. His first drawing, dating from 1949, when he was 3, shows his mother screaming while spiders crawl up her dress toward her open mouth.

Mountain's Corky Laing at Canio's, a film about a slave trafficking family from New England, concerts, a benefit, and more

Although it’s not even Labor Day yet, the Hamptons International Film Festival is already preparing for its big event over Columbus Day weekend. On Friday, the festival announced its opening night film, “Just Mercy,” and a group of other high profile films it plans to screen this year.

Lynn Novick, a documentary filmmaker, was in Sag Harbor for a preview at Bay Street Theater of her most recent project, “College Behind Bars,” a four-hour series that will premiere on PBS in November.

Group and solo shows opening this week from Montauk to Southampton