Arts

The Montauk Music Festival’s seventh annual happening heralds summer’s imminent arrival, as the four-day event draws hundreds of artists and thousands of music lovers to the hamlet on the weekend before Memorial Day.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring season with a piano concert by Jiayin Shen on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The new gallery Art Space 98 will open Saturday at 98 Newtown Lane in East Hampton. The inaugural exhibition, “People and Lost Traces,” which will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., will include paintings by Thomas Buehler and clay assemblages by Rosemarie Schiller. Paton Miller, the Southampton artist whose work reflects his extensive travels and his admiration of such Spanish artists as Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco, will show new paintings at the Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor from tomorrow through June 13.

“Water, water everywhere . . . but is it safe to drink?” If he were alive today, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner might have told a different, less poetic story, perhaps as a speaker at “Tideland Sessions,” an all-day program of talks and performances organized in conjunction with the Parrish Art Museum’s current exhibition, “Radical Seafaring.”

The Watermill Center is shedding the relatively low profile it has maintained for the past few weeks with a weekend of open studios and rehearsals by resident artists, a guided tour of the facility, and the second installment of its spring International Brunch series.

Classical piano will be featured at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Yoonie Han, an award-winning soloist, will wrap up the museum’s Salon Series for the season.

“Local Talent @ SCC,” a new program of the Southampton Cultural Center that showcases the work of local performing artists, will present a piano duo of Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The 33rd season of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series, will present 13 concerts, from July 31 to Aug. 28, beginning with “Mozart: A Portrait in Music and Words,” narrated by Alan Alda. Tickets, always in demand, will go on sale Saturday at the festival’s website, bcmf.org, or by calling 212-741-9403.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a concert by Carol Wincenc, a Grammy-nominated flutist and winner of lifetime achievement awards from the National Flute Association and the Society of Arts and Letters, tomorrow at 6 p.m. She will be accompanied on the harp by Parker Ramsey, one of her Juilliard students.

Houston Person, a tenor saxophonist, will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s Art of Song/Parlor Jazz series on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a program titled “Let’s Fall in Love.”

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will open two new exhibitions tomorrow. A stoneware sculpture show by Toni Ross and a show by Irene Kopelman, Pat Pickett, and Alexis Rockman that finds inspiration in the direct contact of the artist with nature. Amy Kirwin has been appointed the new director of programs at the Southampton Arts Center.

The last time the Irish playwright Conor McPherson had major play across the pond, it was in 2006, with “The Seafarer,” which I had the good luck to see on Broadway. In many ways it is Mr. McPherson’s signature play, including all of his classic elements and concerns: humor, drinking, the Irish character, pipe dreams, the supernatural, and a good amount of blarney. It was largely that play that prompted Ben Brantley of The New York Times to call Mr. McPherson “quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation.”

From the original hip-hop beats aligning their movements to the movements themselves to the art on the walls in the studio where Adam and Gail Baranello train and teach, right down to some of the clothing they wear, their film projects, and live events, everything is all their own.

Dance Fusion at the Southampton Cultural Center will present a workshop and performance featuring dancers from the Ailey School on Saturday. Freddie Moore, the company’s rehearsal director, will lead both programs.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will hold “Curtain Up!” — its fifth annual Honors Benefit — on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan.

While new technologies have had an impact on retail and advertising, Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan remains one of the staunch supporters of creative window dressing. On Saturday at 7:30 p.m. the Montauk Library will present “Creating Fantasy: Behind the Glass at Bergdorf Goodman,” a free talk by Demetrios Argyropoulos, who has overseen the design, production, and execution of the retailer’s ever-changing windows on Fifth Avenue for 15 years.

Gayle Kirschenbaum spent a long time figuring out how to forgive her mother for what she has described as a difficult upbringing, throughout which her mother was sharp-tongued, critical, and lacking in empathy and sensitivity.

It wasn’t just a dream. Music for Montauk is back again this year, and in the capable hands of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, who rebooted the popular classical music series last year with some off-season events and a week of musical surprises in August. The future of the concerts had been uncertain after the death of the founder, Ruth Widder, in 2013.

Guild Hall of East Hampton is having a sale on tickets to select summer programs.

For the past several decades, a movement has been taking shape under the radar of the art world and even the artists within it. That will change with the opening this weekend of the Parrish Art Museum’s “Radical Seafaring,” a pioneering exhibition and catalog produced by Andrea Grover that seeks to define “offshore art.”

“Sacred Threads,” an exhibition of ecclesiastical vestments and textiles from the 14th to the 18th centuries from the collection of Jill Lasersohn, will open to the public on Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton and remain on view through May 30. A reception benefiting a number of local charities will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a piano concert by Soloman Eichner, with special guest Tanya Gabrielian, also a pianist, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs opens today with a show by Philip Pavia. “Spring Into the Springs,” a group exhibition, can be seen at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5. A reception with live music will be held Saturday from 4 to 8.

After a hiatus of several months, the Southampton Arts Center will resume its exhibition program today with “East End Collected 2,” a show of the work of more than 30 area artists organized by Paton Miller. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Yung Jake, an artist and rapper based in Los Angeles who grew up in Bridgehampton as Jake Patterson, will perform as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s “Slithering Screens: 10 Years of New Frontier at Sundance Institute” show tomorrow at 9 p.m. in Manhattan.

Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will present its annual New Works Festival this weekend with free readings of plays and musicals in development by four writers, beginning tomorrow evening at 7 with “The Roommate” by Jen Silverman.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center continues with a concert by Mohamed Shams, an Egyptian-born pianist now studying at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The weekly Jam Session at Bay Burger in Sag Harbor is a jazz aficionado’s paradise, with a number of accomplished musicians participating in the 7-to-9 p.m. shows.

The Salon Series of concerts by a new generation of classical musicians will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. with “Fourtissimo,” a concert by four pianists who will play together on two Yamaha grands.

Guild Hall will present The Met: Live in HD’s simulcast of Richard Strauss’s one-act opera “Elektra” on Saturday at 1 p.m. First performed in Dresden in 1909, the opera focuses on Elektra, the character from Greek mythology who seeks revenge for the murder of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra, and her stepfather, Aegisthus.