Dennis Snyder at Art Space 98

“Querencia,” an exhibition of paintings by Dennis Snyder, will open tomorrow at Art Space 98 in East Hampton with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will continue through Oct. 31.

Much of Mr. Snyder’s work has focused on the landscape of the East End, but he often adds unusual, sometimes surreal, elements. The Spanish word “Querencia” refers to the space to which a bull in the ring naturally gravitates. For Mr. Snyder, who has been influenced by Spanish art and culture, “The East End, the South Fork, is my querencia. I have always felt the spirit of this place, its soul. . . .”

Group Show at Ashawagh

Coco Myers and Kay Gibson have organized a group exhibition of painting, sculpture, and photography at Ashawagh Hall in Springs that will be on view Saturday and Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The show will include work by Perry Burns, Mary Ellen Bartley, Roisin Bateman, Philippe Cheng, Francine Fleischer, Janet Jennings, RTJ Haynes, Christine Matthai, Bastienne Schmidt, Mark Webber, and other East End artists.

Lipman-Wulf at Kramoris

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present an exhibition of rarely seen watercolors created by Peter Lipman-Wulf while he was in exile from his native Germany, which he fled in 1933. The show will open with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through Nov. 21.

Mr. Lipman-Wulf is known primarily as a sculptor, but while a refugee in Switzerland and France he was prohibited from making sculpture and turned instead to watercolors, sketches, and drawings on paper of the landscape. Despite his tentative situation, the works have a hopeful, luminescent quality of settings untouched by war.

Three Approaches to Landscape

Ille Arts in Amagansett will present landscape works by Kamilla Talbot, Barbara Thomas, and Matthew J. Vega from Saturday through Oct. 24. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ms. Talbot’s recent paintings of water in relation to the shore or the boat’s edge explore the perception of movement, reflection, and transparency.

While Ms. Thomas has built a reputation for her paintings of the East End landscape, her most recent work displays a more conceptual, internalized vision. Her work “The Day” consists of 24 painted wooden panels that reflect the passage of a day in the life of the planet. The paintings will be accompanied by a video.

Mr. Vega calls his paintings memory landscapes. He explains that “they are not painted from memories of landscapes but instead from memories of landscape paintings I have seen. There is an unquestioned trust in memories to recall brush stroke, color, and overall tone.”

Alice Aycock Talk

The Amagansett Library’s Art/History/Amagansett conversation series will conclude on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a program featuring the world-renowned sculptor Alice Aycock, who will be interviewed by Mark Segal, a culture writer for The Star.

Ms. Aycock is known for her large-scale site-specific works in such locations as Kennedy International Airport, the East River Park Pavilion in New York City, the San Francisco Public Library, Dulles International Airport, and many others. “Park Avenue Paper Chase,” a series of sculptures, was installed on that Manhattan thoroughfare in 2014. A retrospective of her drawings was held in 2013 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

The talk is free, but advance reservations are required.

About Billy Sullivan

The painter Billy Sullivan will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. to sign copies of his new book, “Still, Looking. Works 1969-2016,” and to talk about his art with Max Blagg, a poet and friend; Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator, and Corinne Erni, the Parrish’s newly appointed curator of special projects.

Mr. Sullivan has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1971. His paintings and pastels are a record of a life fully lived in the art and cultural worlds of New York City and the East End. Though admittedly a diary of his life, his work captures fleeting moments with a bright spontaneity that transcends its specific subjects to become an extended meditation on time and place.

Tickets are $10, free for members and students.

Multiples in Montauk

“Multiples,” an exhibition of artist editions, is on view at the Atlantic Terrace Gallery in Montauk daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Oct. 16. Including editions in print media, ceramic, sculpture, and design, the show presents non-photographic work by East End and New York City artists that is meant to be reproduced and shared affordably. All work has been produced in numbered editions.

Participating artists are Christian Little, Kym Fulmer, Peter Spacek, Charles Ly, Evan Desmond Yee, Alex Reinwald, Dan Welden, Scott Bluedorn, Scott Meyers, Aimee Lusty, Micah B. Weiner, and Ryan Duff.

Plein Air in Amagansett

The plein-air oil paintings of Bob Sullivan, an artist from East Hampton, will be on view at the Amagansett Library from Saturday through Oct. 31. A reception will be held Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

While Mr. Sullivan has been painting seascapes on the East End for the past five years, most of the paintings in the show were completed this summer. Because he works outside and on location, he must work quickly, which leads to lively and spontaneous brushwork with a premium on realism.

Six Photographers at Canio’s

Canio’s Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “The Odd in the Ordinary,” a group exhibition of work by local photographers, with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Nov. 1.

Organized by Kathryn Szoka, the exhibition reflects what six photographers see as they observe the East End. Participants are Nancy Beckerman, Judy Faer, Tina Curran, Katarina Mesarovich, Jane Umanoff, and Heather Wojtusiak.

Solarplate Etchings

“Solarplate 2016,” an international juried exhibition of photographically based Solarplate etchings by 49 artists, will be on view at the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue from Saturday through Nov. 13. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Dan Welden, the originator of the Solarplate process and an internationally known printmaker, painter, and educator whose home and studio are in Sag Harbor, judged the exhibition.

Jim Gingerich was born in Texas and raised there and in Oregon, but, despite his love of the region, he moved to New York City 40 years ago and has spent much of his time since then painting the landscape of the South Fork. It was only in March 2015 that he took an extended leave from the East Coast and settled in Utah’s high desert. One result is “Out West,” a large series of paintings that will be shown this weekend in a benefit exhibition at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill.

While in Utah, he painted every day and became an avid rider, bonding with Lucy, a white fox trotter who also appears in many of the paintings. “My studio was in a barn right next to the corral,” he said during a recent conversation, “so any time I needed to reference her, she could model for me.”

While riding last April, Lucy lost her balance and fell on Mr. Gingerich, crushing his pelvis. Since then he has undergone two surgeries and is now back on the East End, facing extensive rehabilitation and therapy. As serious as the accident was, he seemed more interested in talking about his painting than his misfortune.

About his decision to head west, he said, “Almost facetiously, I was telling people I was tired of the colors of green and gray and blue, which are predominantly what we have here. Out there the land itself is very red. There’s a lot of iron in the soil and rock formations. Plus there are lots of mountains — a lot of warm tones and verticality.”

His vibrant, evocative landscapes of the East End have long been highly regarded and enthusiastically collected, and the new work features the expressive, swirling brushwork and dramatic interplay of light and shadow typical of his earlier paintings. The plateaus and mountains of the West are captured in dynamic compositions with strong diagonals and movement from close up to deep space. 

“Out West” also includes several paintings made in Las Vegas, where he rented a room on the 54th floor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. One captures that dramatic prospect from the point of view of a showgirl looking out at the scene from the right foreground. A few hundred-dollar bills flutter over the vista. 

The idea for a benefit exhibition came from Graham Leader, a film producer, curator, and friend of Mr. Gingerich. “He was the instigator and the implementer,” said the artist. “My daughter, Danielle, has been very helpful. A lot of people have stepped forward.”

Mr. Gingerich has begun working on some drawings and small paintings, but he is just beginning to be able to put some weight on his left leg. “I’m down to one crutch or a cane. Painting is normally sort of a dance for me. I work standing up, and there’s quite a bit of movement between the canvas and the palette.”

The exhibition will open with a reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. and reopen Sunday from noon to 5. Donations of $20 have been suggested to help offset Mr. Gingerich’s medical expenses, and prints of his “Lucy” will be available for sale.

A hypercritical mother, Mack the Knife, and Emma Goldman will appear in various incarnations at Guild Hall this week, starting tomorrow evening at 8 with a personal documentary by the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum, “Look at Us Now, Mother!”

Ms. Kirschenbaum’s parents documented her life from birth, and the film includes home movies and videos of her childhood in an upwardly mobile Long Island suburb, her teenage hippie years, family celebrations, fights, and tragedies. 

In 2003, Ms. Kirschenbaum moved behind the camera. Her father’s death around that time changed the dynamics of her relationship with her mother. The two women hit the road together, traveling through countries, continents, time zones, and their own history with a mixture of humor, honesty, and tenderness.

Both mother and daughter will attend the screening and hold a question-and-answer session afterward. Tickets are $15, $13 for members.

As for Mack the Knife, an encore screening of last Thursday’s performance at London’s National Theatre of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” will be shown on Saturday at 8 p.m. Rory Kinnear, an Olivier Award-winner, plays Macheath, with Rosalie Craig as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne as Mrs. Peachum. The National Theatre Live website warns audiences that the production contains “filthy language and immoral behavior.” The price of such depravity is $18, $16 for members.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free performance of “Love, Sex, Anarchy,” a multimedia theater work by Melissa Bell based on the life of Emma Goldman, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. A fiery speaker, Goldman was a proponent of workers’ rights, women’s reproductive rights, and free love. 

With a production that incorporates a fluid set, choreographed transitions, an original music score, and archival media, “Love, Sex, Anarchy” explores ways in which ideologies conflict with emotions and examines Goldman’s inner psyche in parallel with her political significance and influence.

“Harry and Snowman,” Ron Davis’s multiple-award-winning documentary about a Long Island horse trainer and an unkempt plow horse he rescued and turned into a national show-jumping champion, will make its theatrical debut tomorrow at venues across the country, including AMC Loews Stony Brook 17.

Shown at the 2015 Hamptons International Film Festival, the film tells the compelling story of Harry de Leyer, a Dutch-born trainer who began jumping at the age of 9 and came to the United States in 1950, where he found work as a horse farm manager and trainer. In 1954 he became the riding instructor at a private school in St. James.

While looking for a schooling horse to carry his heavier students, he encountered Snowman at a Pennsylvania auction and purchased him for $80. The rest is history, now well known because of Elizabeth Letts’s book “The Eighty Dollar Champion” and Mr. Davis’s documentary.

The film follows Snowman’s success at a series of shows, starting with local events and quickly moving to the big time at Madison Square Garden, where he won one of his many show-jumping championships. Mr. Davis makes use of archival material from television, Movietone reports, and print journalism. According to the Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney, “Some of the most touching material is the footage of family beach trips, showing Snowman paddling in the water with multiple kids astride his back, or using him as a diving platform.”

Mr. de Leyer, now 88, owned the East End Stables off Oakview Highway in East Hampton before moving to Virginia in 2005. His son Andre still runs the facility with his wife, Christine. As for Snowman, he died in 1974 at the age of 28 and was inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1992. 

Columbus Day weekend on the South Fork has come to mean much more than changing leaves and pumpkin picking. It is also a long weekend of film, lots and lots of film. The Hamptons International Film Festival will begin next Thursday, and by the time it ends on Oct. 10 it will have screened 126 films — features and shorts, narrative and documentary.

Last week the festival announced the bulk of its lineup. It includes some of the most anticipated releases of the Academy Awards season, as well as smaller independent films and a selection from 32 countries, among which are eight world premieres, nine North American premieres, and 20 United States premieres. The East Hampton Star guide was published last week and is available throughout the South Fork. The full guide is also on the festival’s website.

Also on the docket is a series of “Conversations With” three actors. They are Aaron Eckhart, Holly Hunter, and Edward Norton.

  Mr. Eckhart is known for his performances in Neil LaBute’s films, among many others. He plays a boxing trainer in “Bleed for This,” directed by Kevin Rooney, which will be screened at the festival. His talk will take place on Friday, Oct. 7, at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

On Oct. 8, Ms. Hunter will be interviewed at the East Hampton Middle School. Her intense roles have included award-winning turns in “The Piano,” and her latest film, Katherine Dieckmann’s “Strange Weather,” will be one of those screened. Mr. Norton, who is being honored by the festival this year, will speak on Oct. 9 at the middle school.

HIFF has also announced its jury members for this year. They include David Edelstein, Mariska Hargitay, John Krokidas, Alexis Alexanian, Jason Janego, and Julie Goldstein. The festival’s relationship with the New York Film Critics Circle continues, with members serving as mentors, panelists, and jurors at various events.

The festival has already announced that it will open with “Loving,” Jeff Nichols’s film about a couple whose Supreme Court case did away with laws against interracial marriage in 1967. It will close with Ewan McGregor’s interpretation of “American Pastoral,” Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a charmed family whose world falls apart after a violent crime.

In between, it will feature films such as the much praised “Manchester by the Sea,” from Kenneth Lonergan, about a working-class family in a Massachusetts fishing village; the aforementioned “Strange Weather,” starring Holly Hunter as a grieving woman in the Deep South trying to find answers so she can move on with her life, and Mike Mills’s “20th Century Women,” a drama set in Southern California in the late 1970s. Tickets to these five, which have already generated awards buzz from previous festival screenings, will cost the most, at $35 each. 

This year’s Spotlight Films include “Bleed for This,” “Burn Your Maps,” “Christine,” “Julieta,” “La La Land,” “Lion,” “Moonlight,” “The Ticket,” “Una,” and “Wakefield.” Tickets for these, which have or are likely to have distribution, are $28. The regular ticket price is $15, with discounts for senior citizens and children.

The festival’s World Cinema selections represent smaller entries from both domestic and foreign sources. The documentary titles are “Davi’s Way,” “Score: A Musical Documentary,” “Supergirl,” “Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing,” “Franca: Chaos and Creation,” “Santoalla,” “Bunker77,” “Sour Grapes,” “Into the Inferno,” “God Knows Where I Am,” “Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent,” and “Southwest in Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four.”

The narrative films include “All the Beauty,” “The Teacher,” “Blue Jay,” “Goldstone,” “Original Bliss,” “The Red Turtle,” “Don’t Call Me Son,” “Frantz,” “Halal Love (and Sex),” “The Handmaiden,” “Lost in Paris,” “The Salesman,” “Lovesong,” “Donald Cried,” “I, Daniel Blake,” “Paterson,” “Toni Erdmann,” and “Under the Shadow.”

The festival’s View From Long Island section will feature “Legs: A Big Issue in a Small Town,” which is also a World Cinema selection. It follows the battle between Sag Harbor Village and two homeowners, Ruth Vered and Janet Lehr, after they installed a massive Larry Rivers sculpture on the exterior of their house. “The Killing Season,” a documentary that will run on the A&E channel, follows the investigation of the deaths of 10 sex workers whose bodies were found UpIsland on Gilgo Beach. 

Two short films will be included in this section: “Black Swell” by Jacob Honig stars Richard Kind, and “Prophet of Plas-teek” by Joshua Cohen takes place in Montauk. “God Knows Where I Am” is a documentary produced and directed by two brothers, Todd and Jedd Wider, with Long Island connections.

There will be eight programs of short films in addition to those running before features. They are the Narrative and Documentary Short Film Competitions, New York Women in Film and Television: Women Calling the Shots, Away We Go! Shorts for All Ages, Student Short Films Showcase, Get Off My Cloud, Runs in the Family, and Tilt & Shift. 

This year’s Films of Conflict and Resolution section will feature titles such as “Disturbing the Peace,” about former soldiers from Israel and Palestine becoming peace activists. Others include “Fire at Sea,” about the European migrant crisis, “I Am Not Your Negro,” based on a James Baldwin manuscript, and “Sonita,” about an Afghan refugee who dreams of becoming a rapper.

The Compassion, Justice, and Animal Rights section will offer “The Ivory Game,” about attempts to save African elephants from extinction, and “Unlocking the Cage,” a film by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker of Sag Harbor. It looks at the efforts of an animal rights lawyer trying to establish case law to ensure that animals have legal protection.

The free talks at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton will return this year on Friday, Oct. 7, Oct. 8, and Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. Friday’s talk has not been announced yet, but Saturday’s will feature a chat with the documentarians competing for this year’s festival award. Sunday’s talk offers a look at the current status of women in film.

New this year is a Focus on Norwegian Film showcase for a selection of titles tied to that country, “All the Beauty,” “Late Summer,” “Magnus,” and “It’s Alright” among them.

“Betting on Zero,” the audience favorite from the festival’s SummerDocs series, will have an encore screening. Another special screening will take place on Oct. 9, when the Southampton Arts Center will show “The Addams Family,” the 1991 movie based on the cartoons of Charles Addams, who lived in Sagaponack.

The festival box offices, at Obligato on Main Street in East Hampton and the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, are selling individual tickets, which are also available online. The festival is offering passes and packages, too.

Music for Montauk will present the American String Quartet in a free concert at the Montauk School auditorium on Saturday at 5 p.m. Consisting of Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney on violin, Daniel Avshalomov on viola, and Wolfram Koessel on cello, the quartet will perform, in addition to masterpieces by Haydn and Beethoven, a new work by Robert Sirota, “American Pilgrimage.” That composition is dedicated to the memory of Ruth Widder, a resident of the hamlet who founded Music for Montauk in 1991 and played a significant role in the development of the American String Quartet.

Haydn’s string quartet in G Major (Op. 76, No. 1) strikes a balance between tradition and the composer’s drive toward innovation. Beethoven’s Quartet in C Major (Op. 59, No. 3) acquired the nickname “Eroica” because of its triumphant finale.

Mr. Sirota composed his first string quartet, “Triptych,” in 2002 as an impassioned response to 9/11. According to the composer, “‘American Pilgrimage’ is conceived as a true companion piece to ‘Triptych.’ ” which he called “a meditation on one of the most tragic chapters in our national history. ‘American Pilgrimage’ is a celebration of the beauty, pathos, and variety of both our geography and culture.” 

The composition is informed by different location: Waldo County, Me.; Charleston, S.C.; Santa Fe, N.M., and Manhattan.

“Break Out!,” a new two-woman play written and performed by Maggie Bloomfield and Susan Dingle, will be presented at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday evening at 7.

Based on poems from “The Hollywood Dreamcatcher” by Ms. Dingle and “Broadway, Booze, and a Song of Life” by Ms. Bloomfield, the women tell, in poetry and prose, stories of their youthful misadventures that reflect on their histories, friendships, and how they found their voices in sobriety. Tickets to the show, which is directed by Andrew Botsford and Rosemary Cline, are $20. A reception will follow the performance.

The East End Arts School is now offering music lessons for children and adults of all ages and levels at two locations: its main campus in Riverhead and its new satellite campus at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. Classes are given in one-on-one and group settings in voice, piano, guitar, and band and orchestral instruments. More information is available at eastendarts.org/school/.

“Archaeology From Egypt to Your Own Backyard,” a talk by Stephen Harvey, an Egyptologist and director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project at Abydos, Egypt, will take place Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Havens Barn at the Shelter Island Historical Society.

Dr. Harvey will discuss his current investigation of the last pyramids built by Egyptian royalty, at the ancient site of Abydos, as well as his discoveries from his own Shelter Island backyard — pottery, glass, and other items related to the 18th and 19th-century lives of Samuel Havens and his descendants. Tickets are $8.

The Parrish Art Museum and BOMB magazine are presenting a free reading at Marders in Bridgehampton on Saturday afternoon at 5. Hosted by Betsy Sussler, the magazine’s editor, the program will feature Candace Bushnell, Jacqueline Weld Drake, Gregory Hedberg, and Charline Spektor.