Arts

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 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.

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.”

“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 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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bridgehampton’s White Room Gallery will show "Earth, Wind, and Fire," an exhibition featuring work by EJ Camp, June Kaplan, and Susan Zises. The show will open Saturday and a reception is set for May 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. Don't miss “Philip Pavia: Sculpture and Drawings” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, opening next Thursday.

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.

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.

Stephen Antonakos, a neon pioneer from the 1960s onward, discovered several different styles within that medium from that period until his death in 2013. From outlines of simple geometric shapes to complicated overlays on painted surfaces, and late work with neon-backlit painted wood assemblages, he found in the colorful gas tubing a visual language to explore relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.

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.

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.

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.

“Early on I worked from life,” Virva Hinnemo said in her Springs studio, surrounded by decidedly abstract works executed with acrylic paint on cardboard. “I still use a sketchbook and draw from life when I have a chance because I enjoy it. But even though the work has become abstract, it’s really rooted in spatial issues. I think life and the outdoors, whether the woods or the ocean, all of that seeps in.”

Classic country music will be coming to the East Hampton Library on Saturday afternoon at 1 when Gayden Wren will perform as Tennessee Walt in a solo concert featuring two dozen songs, arranged for voice and piano, by Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and other country greats.

The Museum of Art in Deland, Fla. will have an exhibition of the work of Syd Solomon opening Friday, April 29. A reception will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Guild Hall’s 78th annual Artist Members Exhibition will open Saturday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and continue through June 4.

Shelter Island Friends of Music will present “Gershwin and the French Muse,” a free concert by Thomas Pandolfi, a prizewinning pianist, on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. The concert will include music by Gershwin, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, and Déodat de Séverac.