Arts

Although Helen Frankenthaler spent some of her formative years as an artist in Springs and East Hampton, she developed a more lasting relationship with Provincetown, Mass., during her marriage to Robert Motherwell. The decade she kept a summer studio there had a profound impact on her work.

Linda Eder, Questlove, and a sold-out David Sedaris reading at Guild Hall this week.

A frequent visitor to the South Fork, Walter Plate spent most of each year in Woodstock, N.Y., where he settled after serving in World War II. But that didn’t keep him from absorbing the same inspiration from the East End as his associates Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, and Herman Cherry, a mentor.

“I don’t like art that is like somebody else’s stuff,” said Candace Hill Montgomery during a conversation in her Bridgehampton backyard. “I have a real hatred of things that are not original. Does it reference somebody else’s work? That’s fine. But not when it’s basically a copy.”

Time for the Springs Invitational organized by Peter Spacek, Artist Alliance tour, Steampunk, new at Grennig, and more

LaChanze first stepped onto a Broadway stage in 1990 in the musical “Once on This Island” and lost no time launching a career that hasn’t slowed down since.

Six pianists gathered last week to talk about their experiences participating in Pianofest, a summer festival that offers concentrated study to a small group of auditioned and very talented young artists, who live for four weeks in a large house in East Hampton and present concerts to the public in venues in Southampton, East Hampton, and Westhampton Beach.

Chefs such as Claudia Fleming, Jason Weiner, Christian Mir, Alex Guarnaschelli, and others will come together on Sunday to fete Jon Snow, a founder of the Hayground School and its summer camp, who has run the garden there and helped connect it to cooking as a central component of the Hayground curriculum.

The Watermill Center’s Viewpoints lecture series, which draws speakers from diverse disciplines to discuss ideas and issues important to contemporary discourse, will launch next Thursday with Penny Arcade.

The Perlman Music Program is observing its 25th anniversary this year, a celebration of outstanding musical achievement and the development of a year-round educational, nurturing, supportive community of musicians.

Studio tours, Ann Temkin talk, Claude Lawrence at Keyes, new group at Grain Surfboards, and more

There is a much to see and admire in “Compendium Part II” at Mark Borghi Fine Art in Bridgehampton with a few standouts in the mix of postwar and contemporary art.

Dining, creativity, surfing, and roots music are on Guild Hall’s cultural menu this week, starting Sunday morning, when “Stirring the Pot,” a series of culinary-centric conversations, will feature Tim and Nina Zagat, who founded the Zagat Survey 40 years ago. Initially a collection of reviews of New York City restaurants by diners, the survey at its height included 70 cities. In 2011, Google acquired it for $125 million.

Reviving a timeless musical is not as simple as it might seem. In the case of “Annie Get Your Gun,” which will open next week, Sarna Lapine, the production’s director, consulted four different versions of the script.

New environmental film festival in Montauk, Laurie Anderson at Ross School, a drama set at Camp Hero, and more

Amagansett’s Upstairs Art Fair, a small but well attended fair attracting innovative dealers from the East End and New York City, will return for its third iteration this weekend at its home on the top floor at the old Amagansett Applied Arts building at 11 Indian Wells Road.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s theme this summer is “Winds of Change,” which has a triple meaning: music for woodwind instruments, music by women composers, and, more broadly, musical and societal changes.

Donna Karan and Julian Schnabel to be honored at LongHouse, an outdoor “Bowie Show” in Southampton, and the Great American (Folk) Songbook in Bridgehampton.

Growing up, Rebecca Knox, who just wrapped the final season of “Orange Is the New Black,” never acted in school. In fact, she never raised her hand in class, because she knew she would turn bright red and feel like throwing up. “I hated an audience,” she said at her family’s house in East Hampton. Next week she has a short, “Cavity,” screening at Guild Hall.

“Art as Ecosystem 1,” the first of two talks at Guild Hall moderated by the artist Eric Fischl, will bring together art world luminaries to take the measure of the discipline’s health and vitality. The venue will also present a doo-wop concert, and the American Modern Opera Company.

Entre nous, times seem a bit tight at Chatsworth House in England, the Duke of Devonshire’s baroque jewel in the Derbyshire countryside, about 160 miles north of London. Peregrine (Stoker) Cavendish, the 12th duke in the Devonshire dynasty, which began in 1640, was onstage recently to tell a packed John Drew Theater all about noble poverty and his leaky ancestral home.

New shows at Rental, Firestone, Lehr, Ille, White Room, and elsewhere.

What to make of “Cold Case Hammarskjold,” Mads Brugger’s idiosyncratic odyssey into the vile heart of African colonialism and the conspiracy theories surrounding it to this day?

Jakob Dylan is capping off a busy year with a visit to the South Fork. His film “Echo in the Canyon,” about the Laurel Canyon music scene in Los Angeles during the 1960s, was released in late May, and he is on tour with his band the Wallflowers this summer.

Kabakovs speak at Art Barge, Marcus Brutus at Harper's, Eastville's historical photographs, Maynard Morrow and Material Lust at Fireplace Project, and more

“Three Perspectives on the Decorative Arts,” a lecture series at the Southampton History Museum organized by Tom Edmonds, its executive director, will kick off Saturday with “Roaring Into the Future: Art Deco and Early Modernism in New York, 1925-1935,” a talk by Lori Zabar.

Maria Bacardi left Cuba in 1961, when she was 4 years old, but, as she has said, “I am not in Cuba, Cuba is in me.” Her immersion in the history and culture of her native country is reflected in the music of her new album, “Duele (It Hurts),” released in May.

Philharmonic and dance at Guild Hall, "Mental Illness and Artistic Genius," an Eco-Musical, a Halston Documentary, and more.

“East Enders,” a two-part music festival organized by Peter Watrous, a guitarist and former music critic for The New York Times, will launch this weekend at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs with three performances that explore the relationship among jazz musicians, artists, and writers during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

A terrific new play, “Safe Space,” is getting its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Undoubtedly bound for larger theaters, it’s about as can’t-miss as local theater gets.