Arts

"I wanted to make a film that would hopefully inspire people to look at their own lives and what they have to offer that they can pass down to anybody," noted Director Al Hicks, who's making his Hamptons International Film Festival debut with "Keep on Keepin' On."

Art enthusiasts joined mixed media artist Ben Moon and renowned artist William Quigley for "Mash-Up Society." Moon and Quigley, known as "The Pleasurists," started the "Sip to the Soldiers" campaign as a way to raise awareness and money for the Soldier Ride, a Wounded Warriors event in Amagansett on Saturday July 19, 2014.

The Parrish Art Museum will hold the second edition of Gesture Jam, an innovative adult figure drawing class this weekend.

Veteran art fair director and Roslyn native Nick Korniloff's long held dream to bring a world class art fair to the world class resort community of the Hamptons has become a reality.

East End artists, musicians, and writers are coming together for Arts Against Addiction, a benefit supporting QTherapy Institute, an online counseling center dedicated to providing treatment to suffering individuals who otherwise couldn't afford it.

Bay Street's production of "Travesties" is well directed and well executed for a play that is so fast paced and farcical.

"The Pleasurists," William Quigley and Ben Moon, are joining forces for their second annual "Sip for the Soldiers."

"It's a little more like you took driftwood, and made an album out of it, if that makes any sense," said Matthew Sweet, who is performing this Saturday at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center (WHBPAC), about his album, "Modern Art," that was finished in 2011.

"Seven years ago we staged our first show and it actually turned out well and we've been growing it ever since," ArtHamptons Founder and President Rick Friedman said.

A decade ago ArtNews Magazine described Ilya Kabakov as one of the world's 10 greatest living artists. In collaboration with his wife, fellow artist Emilia Kabakov, their installation "The Strange City" was selected as the Monumenta 2014 exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris this past May.