Arts

The fifth year of the Southampton Jewish Film Festival is now underway with weekly screenings on Tuesday evenings through August at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra recently performed some of Mozart’s lesser-known choral works, composed before he was 24 years old. The ensemble, under the spirited direction of its music director, Mark Mangini, performed with professionalism and enthusiasm.

Looking up from a long dining table in Ms. Bracco’s Bridgehampton great room, there are two framed photographs of her and the full “Sopranos” cast and two drawings by her grandchildren. “Yes, that sums up my life a bit. It really does,” she said with a laugh last week.

New shows at Borghi, Grain, Kramoris, Drawing Room, plus exhibitions at John Jermain and Amagansett Libraries, the Pollock-Krasner lecture series begins, and more.

Market Art + Design, on the grounds behind the Bridgehampton Museum along Corwith Avenue, where it began in 2011, will be open with 90 galleries from Friday through Sunday.

Guild Hall will celebrate the artistry of the instrument with the second annual Guitar Masters festival, starting Friday when no less a master than Buddy Guy takes the stage at 8 p.m. On Saturday, the Allman Betts Band, featuring three sons of the Allman Brothers Band, takes over. On Sunday, another offspring of a legend, Roseanne Cash, will close out the festival with a band that includes the guitarist John Leventhal.

An architecture tour in Southampton, jazz in Montauk, and a screening of “His Girl Friday” in Sag Harbor.

The Amagansett Library will launch “Secrets in Family Documentaries,” a series of four films that explore different approaches to telling stories behind family secrets, with “Little White Lie,” a film by Lacey Schwartz, next Thursday at 6 p.m.

Have an old frame, dusty book, or outdated piece of furniture you can’t seem to get rid of? Your household items and antiques could be worth more than you think.

Two new works recently joined the other installations and objects that came this year from Young Jae Lee, Will Ryman, Jun Kaneko, Wendell Castle, and Joseph Walsh. They are “Out of Sight,” an installation resembling a hopscotch board by Lawrence Weiner, and Stephen Talasnik’s “Echo,” floating reed bamboo “habitats” in the Black Mirror fountain.

“Here I Go Again,” in which Ms. Eikenberry will be joined by Michael Tucker, the actor and writer who happens to be her husband, and David Rasche, an award-winning composer and actor, is a cabaret-style evening of song at Bay Street Theater.

Those who were enthusiastic about the possibilities inherent in the restoration of the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio years ago will rejoice in the announcement of the exhibition “Thomas Moran Discovers the American West,” which will go on view there on Saturday, running through early November.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will perform “Mozart in Salzburg,” a concert of his early works composed in that Austrian city, on Saturday at 5 and 7:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

This year’s artist at the Dan Flavin Art Institute is Jacqueline Humphries, who divides her time between New York City and Southold. Her recent black light on fluorescent cast works are an expansion of the black light paintings she has been making since a 2005 fire in her studio caused her to rethink her practice.

A cancer diagnosis in the family was the impetus behind Joel Sartore's National Geographic Photo Ark, an ongoing effort to raise awareness of and discover solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and habitats by creating a photo archive of global diversity.

Birdhouse is back, Renate Aller at Parrish and MM Fine Art, new shows at RJD, and a show at Temple Adas Israel

Anglophiles in the tristate area will rejoice to know that treasures from one of England’s grandest domiciles will be crossing the pond to the Sotheby’s auction house in New York City.

Poetic titles, thin washes of color inspired by J.M.W. Turner, and a playful use of collage all characterize Sally Egbert’s work, which will be on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs beginning Saturday.

A second annual benefit program for the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, “The Cozy Side of Beethoven: An Intimate Concert,” will be performed tomorrow, featuring some of the master’s well-loved favorites and some of his less-well-known vocal works.

A visit to the home of Jeremy Grosvenor, Saskia Friedrich, and their son, Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor, 23, in northern Sagaponack provided an object lesson of sorts, specifically with respect to the behavioral trait of creativity. All three are artists, although there are distinct differences in how they think about art and characterize their practices.

Melissa Errico and Julian Schnabel at Guild Hall, Elayne Boosler at LTV, Tom Scott at SAC, and more.

New installations of Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Talasnik at LongHouse and new shows at Ille, Rental, White Room, Ashawagh, Estia, Keyes, and Markel.

There is a sense of tangible danger in recent years on the South Fork. This peril does not derive from a murder or a slew of rip currents, although those are sobering in their own right. This precariousness stems from a material loss that carries a metaphysical threat, a loss of identity.

The question that came to mind over and over again while watching “Maiden,” the first SummerDocs offering of the 2019 season, was “Can this really be 1989?” 

Bill O’Connell, a pianist who lives in Montauk and Rockland County, is one of very few non-Latinos to make significant contributions to the Latin jazz movement.

“Safe Space,” a new play by Alan Fox having its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor next week, explores the detonation of issues related to identity politics, racism, and political correctness on the campus of an elite American university.

The latest gallery arrival on Amagansett's Main Street is ARC Fine Art, an import from Connecticut with ties to the region. Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, its proprietor, has been coming to East Hampton for many years and showing art informally on the East End in pop-up spaces. She has decided to formalize that relationship.

Django Festival Allstars at Guild Hall, here comes Pianofest, "Mailing Whaling" opens at Whaling Museum, and more.

“One Night in Central Park,” a two-hour examination of the Central Park jogger, made extensive use of courtroom drawings by Marilyn Church, now they are in an opera about the case playing in Southern California.

 “G.E. Smith’s Portraits,” now in its fourth iteration, was conceived in 2015 and produced by Taylor Barton as a series of intimate evenings featuring actors, painters, and fellow musicians. Its first concert of the year will feature Loudon Wainwright III and John Wesley Harding at Guild Hall.