Arts

Green Afternoon V, an annual interactive garden installation and performance by the Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. at the residence of the architects Peter Gumpel and Marcia Previti at 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will open a new show today featuring artists who managed to transcend totalitarianism to pursue pure abstraction in defiance of Communist Party doctrine during the Cold War.

“High Rise Lazarus” at Fireplace Project is a jumble of works in several series and mediums, a genre mash-up. Four different series of works are interspersed throughout the space so that their disjunctive and uniting effects can be experienced at once.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold a birthday concert for its founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, on Saturday at 6 p.m.

An open call for “The Resettlement of Isaac,” a play that will be performed at the Southampton Cultural Center on Aug. 21 as part of the Jewish Film Festival, will take place Sunday and Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the center.

The Parrish Art Museum's “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism, 1969 to Today” will showing works of art capturing time and space precisely.

Revel in Dimes will bring its original musical blend of rock, jazz, and blues to the terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow evening at 6.

When Teri Kennedy, a Springs artist, agreed to serve as curator for the 50th annual Springs invitational art exhibition, she received advice from friends about how to approach it.

With its $200 per week classes, the Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, also known as the Art Barge, could easily be one of the most un-Hamptons places on the South Fork.

“Neo, Neo, Neoclassicism,” a focused exhibition of work by Joe Zucker, will open tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Sept. 4. The Amagansett Historical Association will open its sixth annual art show with a reception at the Jackson Carriage House on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. A benefit for the association, the exhibition will continue through Sept. 3.

Bill O’Connell’s Triple Play Trio will perform a free concert of jazz and Latin music at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. In addition to Mr. O’Connell, the band includes Mayra Casales, a Latin percussionist, and Peter Martin Weiss on bass.

Mr. O’Connell is a piano soloist, arranger, music director, and accompanist. His talents as a pianist and arranger have been tapped by such Latin musicians as Mongo Santamaria and Dave Valentin and the jazz icons Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, and Gato Barbieri.

“Avedon’s America,” images that reflect the unflagging interest of one man in the faces that defined the country and its values for more than half a century, will soon grace Guild Hall’s galleries with a gala opening tied to its annual benefit on Aug. 11.

The Jazz on the Terrace series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will welcome back the Hendrik Meurkens Quartet, which appeared at the museum two summers ago, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Mr. Meurkens, a harmonica and vibraphone virtuoso who is a regular of the New York City jazz scene, is acclaimed for his mastery of Brazilian jazz. Reared in Germany, he lived in Rio de Janeiro for 10 years and immersed himself in the country’s music styles.

He will be joined by Misha Tsiganov on piano, Gustavo Amarante on bass, and Rogerio Boccato on drums. Tickets are $12, free for members.

“About Face,” an exhibition of work by 70 artists presented by the New York Academy of Art, will open tomorrow at the Southampton Arts Center with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 17.

In “Take Every Wave,” Rory Kennedy captures the surfer Laird Hamilton’s devil-may-care attitude and his aquatic accomplishments. It will be screened Aug. 4 at Gurney’s.

Mandy Gonzalez and the Bacon Brothers will perform in coming days at Guild Hall.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series provides a platform for accomplished workers in every imaginable field to share the cutting-edge ideas that shape their work. This year’s talks begin on Tuesday and continue through Aug. 17.

A barn show, a road show, four studio tours and new shows at Roman Fine Art, Romany Kramoris, Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, and The Art Barge, are all on tap for this week.

Comedy for a Cause, an evening of dinner, drinks, and a comedy show hosted by Felicia Madison, will take place on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. Four comedians, Jocelyn Chia, Clayton Fletcher, Nancy Lombardo, and Erin Maguire, will round out the program, which is a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Tickets are $185 and can be purchased in advance at feliciamadison. com.

With a wide span of years and no real focus, the show “Moving Targets: American Art From 1918 to 2012” is as rambling as its title suggests. Still, it has enough standout pieces to make it worth a look.

Alec Baldwin and Harris Yulin will star in a staged reading of “Gross Points” on Tuesday at 8 p.m. and Tovah Feldshuh and Richard Kind will headline a reading of “Assisted Loving” on Friday, July 28, also at 8.

“Barney’s Wall,” a new documentary about Barney Rosset, the Grove Press and Evergreen Review publisher who successfully waged battles against censorship and introduced to American readers such writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet, will be shown at Guild Hall next Thursday.

Not satisfied with one house, this year the Hampton Designer Showhouse, which benefits Southampton Hospital, will feature two next-door houses in a new subdivision to the west of Southampton Village.

The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will take a break from its music programs on Wednesday evening.

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,” the poet laureate Robert Southey informed Charlotte Bronte when she sent him her poems, along with her sibling Anne’s writing, to critique. The Brontes went on, quite efficiently, to make it their business.

Who better to consider the question “Is fashion art?” than Valerie Steele, a writer, fashion historian, and director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Dr. Steele will do so at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. in a talk that will explore how the exhibition of fashion in museums has blurred the line between art and fashion and how fashion designers, curators, and critics weigh in on the subject. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. Tickets are $12, free for members and students.

Janice Friedman, a jazz pianist and vocalist, and Marco Panascia, a bassist, will perform a program of jazz standards and original songs in a free concert at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

“An Evening With Lorna Luft,” a new show from the acclaimed stage, screen, and television actress and vocalist, will take place Monday evening at 8 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor as part of its Music Mondays cabaret series.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival kicks off its month-long, 13-concert series on July 30 with a program of music by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann, in a composer portrait called “Love, Genius, Madness,” narrated by Alan Alda.

“Summer Roses: The Gypsy Girl and the Nightingale,” an hourlong concert of music by Spanish composers, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane on Sunday at 5 p.m.