Arts

Watermill Center's summer gala is the place in the Hamptons where celebrities with an edge come to see and not be seen. We spied Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga, and Winona Ryder getting into performance art.

The Water Mill Museum is hosting their 27th annual Quilt Show and Sale. Proceeds will go towards the museum's restoration of their 1644 grist mill.

The infamously hilarious Rita Rudner will be performing at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

Nile Rodgers is more than a guy with a guitar. He's been turning out hit after hit including 2013's "Get Lucky" and 1978's "Everybody Dance". Last year Nile stayed with his friend Bruce Weber in Montauk and overnight Montauk became the coolest place in the Hamptons. Will he do that to the North Fork after his "Nile Rodgers...

Schwartz is known for having directed the Broadway shows "Golda's Balcony" and "Jane Eyre," as well as numerous off-Broadway plays, and will lend his talents to the Bay Street Theatre at the beginning of its 2014 season.

The 19th Annual Juried Fine Art Show will feature 80 artists from the U.S. as well as artists from France, China and Israel.

The biggest musical event of the summer season is a week away and if you will pardon the baseball analogy, Nile Rodgers has completed his line-up card.

Canio Cultural Cafe in Sag Harbor is getting ready to host a Master Art Studio Series, a fall fundraiser and an essay writing contest.

Bay Street Theatre raised over $25,000 for educational and summer programming as Joy Behar, Susie Essman and more participated in "Broads for Broadway."

Recent paintings by Chuck Close including, archival watercolor pigment prints on Hahnemühle rag paper, and jacquard tapestries of artists and friends including Roy Lichtenstein, Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman, and Kara Walker is on display at Guild Hall in East Hampton.