As proof that an old dog can master new tricks, Guild Hall’s annual Clothesline Art Sale, first held in 1946, has added two new features this year.

In addition to the main sale of hundreds of original artworks priced from $75 to $2,200, a Makers Market, which will feature functional art such as jewelry, purses, and hand knits that were previously excluded from the sale, will be held in Guild Hall’s garden. 

Admission is free to both sales, which will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sidewalk sale will be held rain or shine, but inclement weather will move the Makers Market indoors to the Boots Lamb Education Center.

For those who want to beat the crowds and have the first opportunity to buy the offerings in the galleries, a preview cocktail party will be held tomorrow evening from 5 to 7. Tickets are $100, $75 for members, and wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Sales of artworks are split evenly between the artist and Guild Hall, whose programs are supported by the event.

A celebration of the lives and works of Judith and Gerson Leiber will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 at the Leiber Collection on Old Stone Highway in Springs.

The Leibers died within a few hours of each other on April 28 after 72 years of marriage. In 1963, Ms. Leiber founded her handbag company, which became known for its luxurious, crystal-covered minaudières that were carried by countless celebrities and every First Lady from 1953 to 2000. More than 80 of her handbags are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mr. Leiber’s paintings, which are in numerous public collections, range from abstract landscapes to stylized, expressionistic works with representational elements. He was also an accomplished printmaker, and he designed a series of intricate gardens on their seven-acre property.

Saturday’s celebration will include reminiscences by Jeffrey Sussman, their biographer; Ann Stewart, the curator of the Leiber Collection, and Patti Kenner, a trustee of the Leiber Foundation. An exhibition of Ms. Leiber’s handbags and Mr. Leiber’s paintings is on view in a Renaissance-style building situated in the sculpture garden.

Louis Schanker isn’t one of the first to come to mind when thinking of the grand artistic names of the mid-20th century on the South Fork, but perhaps he should be.

The painter and graphic artist’s indelible participation in the cultural community here with his wife, Libby Holman, will be featured in a talk on Saturday by Lou Siegel, the artist’s nephew, at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs. The former home of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock and current art center is the site of an exhibition of Schanker’s work from 1935 to 1943, when he was a supervisor of murals and graphic art for the Works Progress Administration. The agency, among other things, employed artists during the Great Depression so they could support themselves while doing some good for the public.

Those were the days before he found a Sag Harbor house on Madison Street in 1949, and married Holman in 1960. She was a colorful figure whose first husband died under suspicious circumstances, leaving her with quite a bit of Reynolds family tobacco money. The couple then bought a modernist house on Further Lane in East Hampton designed by Robert Rosenberg, which was subsequently destroyed, according to Helen Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House.

“I’m not sure when the Schankers bought it,” she said. “But they had it by 1962, when the famous photograph by Hans Namuth was taken. It was their annual July 4th house party, and everyone trooped down to the beach for the photo.”

Holman was a blues singer with very dark coloring, leading some people to surmise she was African-American. Witnessing oppression from both her own Jewish background and the ethnicity she was assumed to have, she became an ardent civil rights advocate. After befriending the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, she encouraged them to go to India to learn Mahatma Gandhi’s peaceful resistance tactics. Coretta King also visited the couple in East Hampton, according to Ms. Harrison. As a performer, Holman “was a pioneer in introducing African-American music to a white audience,” she said.

Louis Schanker, who died in 1981, was also a music lover and used rhythm as a compositional element in his drawings, paintings, and print work. He shared this love with artists such as Stuart Davis, who was a fellow contributor to WNYC studio murals and used jazz rhythms and references in his work. Krasner, who contributed a proposal for the radio station that was never executed, became lifelong friends with Schanker, who in turn befriended her husband, another jazz enthusiast who referenced music in his work.

Included in the Pollock-Krasner House show are a few studies for Schanker’s WNYC mural, which Greta Berman, a W.P.A. scholar, sees as “a forerunner of Abstract Expressionism, in a number of ways,” she wrote in her exhibition essay. “The vague gestural figuration drawn over the colorful abstract background looks ahead to action painting. . . . And the textural surface adds to the feeling of movement.” During this time, Schanker, who was a naturalist at heart, never abandoned figuration completely, but “he can be considered in many ways an avant-garde artist,” Ms. Berman wrote.

The fact that the WNYC murals would be abstract — and all of the four contributions turned out to be, to an extent — was considered radical at the time. Burgoyne Diller, an abstract artist and director of the mural program, chose the murals because their modernity suited the modern surroundings, which boasted early examples of soundproof rooms and air-conditioning.

Schanker was also one of 10 artists who dissented in reaction to the Whitney Museum’s preference for realist artists such as George Bellows and Edward Hopper in its exhibitions. As “The Ten,” a group including Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, they staged their own abstract show in 1938.

Among the other mural studies on view in Springs are several drawings for the Neponsit Beach Children’s Hospital’s dining room, where Schanker decorated the walls in cheerful renderings of clowns and animals. 

Some of the prints he worked on as a supervisor in the graphics division of the W.P.A. are here as well. There is a series of sports subjects rendered in woodblock and linoleum color prints that involved many different blocks, sometimes one for each color used. The exhibition includes examples of some of the steps in the process. Executed later than the murals, the prints continue to employ the movement he developed in those works.

There is a lot to see in such a concise show and it illuminates a period not often in evidence here. These are the last few days to see it before it closes on Saturday. The closing day gallery talk featuring Mr. Siegel  is at 5 p.m. Titled “Lou and Libby: An Intimate View,” it will be an eyewitness account of the couple’s creative and social lives, including their involvement in the South Fork arts community.

This show is also the last before the Pollock-Krasner Houses reverts to its appointment-only policy, which it abandoned for the past couple of years in favor of open admissions.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series will open next Thursday evening with “Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil,” a talk by William Middleton, a journalist and editor. Organized by Robert Wilson, the center’s founder and artistic director, this year’s series features speakers from a wide range of disciplines, including a poet, a playwright, a composer, and a professor of mathematics and economics.

The de Menils, whose art collection was one of the largest and most important assembled during the 20th century, settled in the 1940s in Houston, where they subsequently built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.

Mr. Middleton, who has been the fashion features director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris bureau chief for Fairchild Publications, will present a behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the 20th century and the influence wielded by the de Menils through what they collected and built.

Aja Monet, an internationally established poet, educator, and human rights activist of Cuban-Jamaican decent, will speak on Aug. 7. The youngest individual to win the Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title, Ms. Monet poses questions in her poetry about the power of the imagination and metaphor to engage issues such as racism, colonialism, and sexism. She was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, D.C.

The series will shift from culture to politics on Aug. 9 when Eric Maskin, Adams University professor at Harvard, will discuss “How to Improve Presidential Elections” with Claude Grunitzky, the president and a board member of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. Dr. Maskin’s areas of expertise include game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, and political economy. 

“Get on the Bus: Writing the Opening Scene” will be the subject of a talk on Aug. 14 by Robert O’Hara, a playwright and director whose many honors include the 2018 Herb Alpert Award, the N.A.A.C.P. Best Director and Best Play awards, two Obies, and the Oppenheim Award. His recent plays, “Zombie: The American” and “Barbecue,” premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival, respectively.

The series will conclude on Aug. 16 with “Roots and Pulses,” a talk by Nico Muhly, a composer whose influences range from American Minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. The recipient of commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and others, he has written more than 80 works for the concert stage, including the opera “Marnie” (2017), which will be staged by the Met in the fall.

All talks take place at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, and advance registration is required.

Bruce Willis, Brooke Adams, Michael Nouri, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin are among the stars who will be out this week at Guild Hall, where a jazz-infused benefit for the Pushcart Prize and WordTheatre in the Schools and two staged readings will be presented.

“Hey, Doyle! — Tales and Jazz” will bring to life the writings of Brian Doyle, a four-time awardee of the Pushcart Prize and the editor of Portland magazine, who died in 2017 at the age of 60. 

Mr. Willis will perform “Memorial Day,” a short essay by Mr. Doyle published posthumously in the most recent volume of the annual Pushcart Prize anthology of the best of the small presses published and edited by Bill Henderson, who lives in Springs.

Other actors who will bring Mr. Doyle’s stories to life are Paul Guilfoyle, Sharon Lawrence, Lorraine Toussaint, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young, and Ms. Adams and Mr. Nouri. The program, which will take place on Saturday at 8:30 p.m., is produced and directed by Cedering Fox, the artistic director of WordTheatre, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the tradition of storytelling.

Tickets are $40 to $65, $38 to $63 for members. V.I.P. tickets, which include an after-party from 10 to midnight, are $250.

On Monday at 8 p.m., Ms. Ruehl and Mr. Yulin will star as two longtime lovers, Emma and Jerry, in a staged reading of Harold Pinter’s 1978 play “Betrayal,” which Mr. Yulin will also direct. The play marked a departure for the Nobel Prize-winning playwright from the spare, elliptical works that established his reputation. 

“Betrayal” begins in 1977, when Emma and Jerry meet after her marriage to Robert dissolves, and then works backward to the beginning of their affair nine years earlier, exposing in the process secrets about the characters and calling into question the nature of their intimacy.

Writing for The Telegraph about a 2011 London production, Charles Spencer said, “It concerns itself . . . with the devious workings of the human heart, with love and guilt and passion. And it does so with emotional depth, subtlety, and an immense technical panache.” Tickets are $30 to $75, $28 to $70 for members.

A staged reading of “Daughters of the Sexual Revolution,” a play by Dana Leslie Goldstein directed and developed by Kimberly Loren Eaton, will be onstage next Thursday at 8 p.m.

Set in suburban New York in 1976, it focuses on the fallout from an affair between two married women, Joyce and Nina, which is discovered when a surprise visit from Joyce’s daughter catches the women in an intimate moment.

Ms. Goldstein is an award-winning playwright whose work has been shown at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Theatre 80 St. Marks, New Dramatists, and many others. Tickets are $30 to $75, $28 to $70 for members.

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s Artists Love Movies series will present “SPF-18,” the first feature film by Alex Israel, on Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.

“SPF-18” is a coming-of-age story about four teenagers who get to spend their post-graduation summer in Keanu Reeves’s Malibu beach house. A tribute to beach culture and teen surfer films of the 1980s and 1990s, it features big names of that era like Molly Ringwald, Rosanna Arquette, Pamela Anderson, and Mr. Reeves. Goldie Hawn narrates.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Mr. Israel, who lives in Los Angeles, and Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan of the cinema arts center’s programming committee. Tickets are $10.

A post-screening cocktail reception with hors d’oeuvres and a margarita bar will take place from 7:30 to 9:30. The cost is $150 for the film and reception, $75 for people 30 and under. Proceeds will benefit the construction of the cinema arts center.

Will Friedwald, a writer and music critic, will discuss and sign copies of the latest edition of his book “Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer’s Art” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the East Hampton Library. Bill Boggs, an Emmy Award-winning television host who conducted the first-ever talk show interview with Frank Sinatra, will interview Mr. Friedwald. Both speakers will share their insights into the iconic entertainer.

The Southampton Arts Center has announced its first Architecture and Design Tour, a benefit for the center that will include a talk and docent-led tours focused on Stanford White, one of the best-known American architects of the late 19th century.

It will begin next Thursday at 10 a.m. with brunch at the center and a talk by Samuel White, an architect and Stanford White’s great-grandson. The tours will follow between 11 and 2 with access to three private properties in Southampton Village designed by White, whose firm, McKim, Mead, and White, built some of the most iconic buildings of the Gilded Age.

Only 100 tickets, priced from $200, will be available. Reservations and more information can be found on the center’s website.

The Montauk Library will host “The Housewives’ Cantata Reboot,” a free cabaret featuring music by the celebrated composer Mira J. Spektor, on Wednesday evening at 7. The original “Housewives’ Cantata” was created in 1974 by Ms. Spektor, who is also a lyricist and poet, and the late June Siegel, a lyricist. The new version celebrates four decades of momentum toward equal rights for women with the addition of seven songs from Ms. Spektor’s more recent productions. 

The concert will feature Karen Jolicoeur, soprano, Lars Woodull, baritone, Bill Lewis, pianist-director, and Ms. Spektor. Additional lyricists whose work is represented are Charline Spektor, Colette Inez, Carolyn Balducci, and Caroline Crippen.

This article has been changed online from the print version to correct the spelling of Mr. Woodull's name and to clarify that all the music was composed by Ms. Spektor.

“Summer Roses VIII: Love in the Garden of Dreams,” a classical concert with Junko Ohtsu on violin, Sarah Moulton Faux, a soprano, and Dan Franklin Smith on piano, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday at 5 p.m.

Ms. Ohtsu has appeared in solo recitals throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. Ms. Faux has performed with the Regina Opera Company of Brooklyn, the Amore Opera, the Pocket Opera of New York, and the Chelsea Opera, among others. Mr. Smith recently gave a solo recital at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Tickets are $35, free for children under 14.