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An Incomparable Art Exhibition
One hundred remarkable artworks from the collection of Lana Jokel, a documentary filmmaker and longtime friend of contemporary artists, are on public view for the first time at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.
| Where Are All the Protest Songs?Two music writers and fans ponder why, at the current moment of political divisiveness, protest songs have yet to penetrate the mainstream. |
| HIFF 2025: The First RevealThe 2025 Hamptons International Film Festival has dropped the first of a series of revelations about the highlights of its 33rd iteration, which will run from Oct. 3 through Oct. 13. |
| Biden in ’24: Self-Serving Self-Deception?Was it a White House cover-up of dangerous incapacity? A plague of self-deception afflicting President Biden and those in his inner circle? Chris Whipple picks through the car wreck that was the 2024 election. |
| Jazz at The Church in Sag HarborIn collaboration with Hamptons JazzFest, the Jane Ira Bloom Quartet, featuring Ms. Bloom on soprano saxophone, will perform at The Church. |
| Teens Expose Toxic Dumping"Middletown," next up in the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series, tell the story of how in the 1990s a high school English teacher and his students exposed toxic dumping in New York's Orange County. |
| The Big Easy and Triplets From NairobiLTV Studios will host Real East End Brass, a New Orleans-style band, and MOIPEI, identical triplets from Nairobi, Kenya, who will sing Broadway, jazz, swing, and more. |
| A Posthumous Book LaunchA new book by the artist Tony Bechara, who died in April, will have a posthumous launch at LongHouse Reserve. |
| Bits and PiecesMelissa Errico, a Broadway actress and singer, to perform at the Southampton Arts Center, classical, jazz, and klezmer concert coming to Shelter Island. |
| The Art SceneGabriele Raacke at Ashawagh Hall, John Haubrich and Steven Corsano in Springs, floral art at the Depot Gallery, landscapes at Lucore in Montauk. |
| News for FoodiesPete Wells, former New York Times restaurant critic, comes to Guild Hall, South Fork Bakery operates a new cafe at the Rogers Memorial Library, and Feniks opens in Southampton. |
| At the GalleriesLate-breaking and standing gallery and arts center listings that last beyond the opening receptions announced in "The Art Scene," updated frequently. |