Arts

I took a look at Ryan McGinness’s work at the Silas Marder Gallery, then I looked again, and then once more. No matter how familiar his world of idiosyncratic signs and symbols, there is always something new to see in their more-is-more layering.

As his teacher had before him, the late saxophonist Hal McKusick, who lived in Sag Harbor, wanted to inspire students to pursue their dream and be passionate about what they believe in. “That takes mentors,” he told The Star in 1998. “And that’s what I’d like to do with my students.”

Rock ’n’ roll, ballet, cabaret, and Dr. Oz will take turns entertaining and informing audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton Village this week, with “Bjork: Biophilia Live,” a film that captures the artist’s 2013 multimedia concert in London, set to conclude the Rock Cinema series tonight at 8.

For those who like their iambic pentameter served alfresco while seated on lawn chairs or picnic blankets, this weekend should be a cause for celebration, with two free productions of Shakespeare plays to choose from and a new partnership that could offer more in the future.

Angel Reda, a vocalist, actress, and dancer who is currently starring on Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” will perform a program of Frank Sinatra’s hits at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Russ Kassoff, Sinatra’s longtime pianist, will accompany her.

“Summer Diaries,” a show by Billy Sullivan will open at Ille Arts with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. “Anna Walinska: Abstractions From the ’50s and ’60s” will open Saturday at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 3.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s 23rd iteration, which will take place from Oct. 8 through 12, will be the last with Stuart Match Suna as chairman. Mr. Match Suna, the president of Silvercup Studios and a founder of the festival, has been chairman for 18 years.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering two programs tomorrow at 6 p.m. The “Sounds of Summer” series will present Jake Lear, a singer and guitar virtuoso. “Gesture Jam,” a figure-drawing class featuring theatrical costumes and live accompaniment, will take place in the museum’s permanent collection galleries under the direction of Andrea Cote.

Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, a cabaret duo, will bring “Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack” to the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday evening at 8 as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon series.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival is off to an auspicious start with two concerts of contrasting music that drew and delighted capacity audiences.

“Unpregnant Pause: Where Are the Babies?” — a free performance based on a new book by Debbie Slevin — will take place Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Montauk Library.

A rare trove of photographs and posters depicting the history of Cuba along with contemporary images will be on display this summer at the Southampton Arts Center thanks to a collaboration with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

On Friday afternoon, Chris Harmon of East Hampton, one of the more outstanding surfers to grow out of Long Island waves, crouched, nearly knelt, before a finely shaped length of fiberglass-coated polyurethane foam, virtually flat, the nose of it pointed with a forked tail, two fins, a red deck, and white bottom.

The Comedy Club series at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present Judy Gold, the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, on Monday at 8 p.m.

The more than 30 works assembled for “Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky,” which will open Sunday at Guild Hall and remain on view through Oct. 12, provide a master class in the artist’s use of an encyclopedic range of materials and processes, many of them industrial, to revive the landscape genre, expand its possibilities, and mine its art historical antecedents.

Music for Montauk, the long-running program of free concerts that was revived in the spring by Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, its new artistic directors, will hold its first-ever summer series of concerts, indoors and out, from Tuesday through Aug. 15.

“One-Man Star Wars Trilogy,” a solo performance by Charles Ross, a Canadian performer and writer, will transport the galaxy from far, far away to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.

"Let them eat cake" at the “True Confections,” exhibition of work by Monica Banks and Christa Maiwald at the Nightingale. The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present “East End Artists: Then and Now,” an exhibition organized by Peter Marcelle, from tomorrow through Aug. 23.

Fern Mallis has navigated two worlds in the fashion industry: the initial, enormous behind-the-scenes efforts, as executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, to unite the industry under what eventually became New York City’s iconic Fashion Week, and the public acclaim she later began to receive for that work as senior vice president of IMG Fashion.

The Allman Brothers Band may be finished (or maybe not), but Butch Trucks, a founding member and one of its two percussionists, is rocking on. Now at his house in France, Mr. Trucks will arrive in the United States next Thursday and head directly to Amagansett and the Stephen Talkhouse.

The Voxare Quartet, an acclaimed and innovative young string quartet, will perform outdoors at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton tomorrow at 7 p.m.

The musical version of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale's story will open a three-and-a-half-week run at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor starting Tuesday at 7 p.m. and continuing through Aug. 30.

Ira Berkow and Bill Madden have spent the last four years perfecting a play about the late George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees baseball team who often seemed larger than life.

The Clothesline Art Sale returns to Guild Hall on Saturday for its 69th incarnation. Both to promote the work of local artists and to attract buyers hoping to spend reasonably, the sale presents affordable pieces in a wide variety of mediums — oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; prints, collages, photography, and small sculptures.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will present “Elaine de Kooning Portrayed,” a show that will include portraits of the artist both by her hand and those of others beginning next Thursday.

“All is well here in New York City,” Garland Jeffreys reported by telephone on a recent morning. Mr. Jeffreys, a Brooklyn native who could fairly be called the quintessential New York City musician — more so perhaps than even Lou Reed or the Ramones — was busy working up songs for a new release, the next in what has become one of the most prolific periods of a nearly five-decade career.

Snow-capped mountains, a group of Turner paintings, and industrial shipping docks might not be the first thing one thinks of when visiting the South Fork, but the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill plans to give visitors a world tour of some unusual places in the guise of Andreas Gursky photographs beginning Sunday.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will feature the Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet in its next Jazz en Plein Air program, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Andrea McCafferty will serve as curator for the 48th annual “Artists of the Springs Invitational Exhibit‚” opening tomorrow at Ashawagh Hall with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Philip Taaffewill show works on paper and illustrated books at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller’s East Hampton outpost. Show opens Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Roisin Bateman, a painter whose work is inspired by nature’s laws of transformation, will conduct a four-session watercolor workshop at the John Jermain Memorial Library. Classes will start Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and continue Tuesdays at that time through Aug. 25.