Arts

The Watermill Center will hold two open rehearsals on Saturday afternoon. Boomerang, a physically nuanced dance and performance group created in 2012 by Matty Davis, Kora Radella, and Adrian Galvin, will show a new work commissioned by Dixon Place on the Lower East Side, where it will premiere in March.

A political cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author known for his intensely critical view of the American government takes a positive turn to support an "outsider" candidate for President.

At a time when Iowa is dominating the headlines because of its imminent caucuses to help select the next president, the sobering differences between the mores and beliefs of middle America and those of the coastal elites could not be clearer.

The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church will present a community sing-in of Handel’s “Messiah” on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Perlman Music Program, which holds its Summer Music School on Shelter Island, has received an Art Works award of $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the school.

For 30 years, Alexis Rockman has rendered the natural world, producing both detailed oil paintings depicting the dystopian consequences of climate change, genetic engineering, and industrial pollution, and more immediate field drawings of plants and animals encountered on his travels.

For several years Daniel Jones has been photographing the East End. Based in Southold, he has captured the North Fork waterways as well as Cooper's Beach and Flying Point in Southampton.

There is a good deal of excitement at the Bay Street Theater in advance of its 25th season, so much so that Scott Schwartz, the artistic director, has already announced two of its upcoming summer productions just on the cusp of 2016.

Laurie Anderson will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Friday, Jan. 8, for a screening of her film “Heart of a Dog.”

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has welcomed back Nancy Atlas for another winter season of Fireside Sessions.

hristian Scheider will present a two-day mini-marathon of the cinematic work of Jacques Tati at the Amagansett Library this weekend.

Ned Smyth doesn’t remember his first visit to the Louvre, since he was 18 months old at the time. Years later, his parents told him that he ran ahead of them as they approached the entrance. Once inside, they found him on his knees, genuflecting.

A reception will take place Saturday at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor from 5 to 7 p.m for the photographer Daniel Jones. A group show, “Winter Light: East End Artists,” organized by Arlene Bujese, will be on view at the Southampton Cultural Center from Tuesday through Feb. 15. A reception will be held on Jan. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Life is brief and time is a thief,” Michael Weiskopf sings on “Love & Entropy,” his just-released album. “There’s no time left for the blues.”

Ten years ago the Metropolitan Opera launched its Live in HD series with Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.” Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the opera on Saturday at 1 p.m.

For those who prefer Sammy Cahn or Cole Porter to Mozart, the East Hampton Library is offering “Celebrating Sinatra at 100” on Saturday at 2 p.m.

For those who love music, the Christmas season can present a conflicted situation. Often, a favorite carol or album is essential to enjoying the season and to connecting current celebrations to those of years past. Many music lovers seek out and delight in annual performances by dependable ensembles of particular works, such as “The Nutcracker” or Handel’s “Messiah,” or pull out a collection of CDs that only sees the light of day during the portion of the year with the least daylight.

Gabriele Raacke, who grew up in a small village in the Black Forest near Freiburg, Germany, wanted to be a bookseller. To that end she attended the booksellers school in Frankfurt, which offered a three-and-a-half-year program required for anybody who wanted to work in a bookstore or publishing house.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will hold its fifth Gesture Jam, a theatrical figure drawing event, tomorrow at 6 p.m. Andrea Cote, an artist and educator who conceived the idea for the class while living in Seattle in the 1990s, will lead the program.

Bay Street Theater will throw a holiday party and sing-along with the special guests Don Duga, the animator who helped create “Frosty the Snowman,” and Rick Unterberg, a piano bar entertainer, on Monday at 7 p.m.

Sophia Brous and Carlos Soto, performance artists, will each share works in progress with the public on Saturday at the Watermill Center. Ms. Brous, an Australian performer who will be in residence at the center in January, will be gathering material from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for “Lullaby Movement,” a project exploring lullaby rituals from around the world that she is developing with David Coulter and Leo Abrahams, British musicians.

You can find your artistic gifts at the Small Works show at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Carly Haffner of Sag Harbor will show her new work at The Ripe Art Gallery in Huntington.

You begin to see them everywhere this time of year, trees and shrubs bundled in burlap as if they are presents. During the holiday season, they almost look normal, as if nature was saving its gifts for a later time. “Don’t open me until March 31,” the wrappings seem to admonish.

Grace Coddington, author of “Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue,” originally published in 2002 and just reissued by Phaidon Books, will be present for a book signing and sale of the book at the Antique Shop on Main Street in Bridgehampton on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.

“I’m very uninterested in subject matter,” Eugene Brodsky told a recent visitor to his East Hampton studio, although he has also said that “the sources for my work start from images I come across.” In his artworks, things are what they seem, and yet there’s more than meets the eye.

David Slater will be opening his new show “Dreams, Ghosts, and Blue Moons,” at the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Don't miss this unique and original artist. The Drawing Room in East Hampton will its “Winter Salon,” an eclectic installation of contemporary works by gallery artists juxtaposed with works on paper from the 18th and 19th centuries on Saturday.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “The Vendettas: Rock and Roll Holiday Spectacular” on Saturday at 8 p.m. The band, made up of Jay Janoski, Dave Doscher, and Lenny Brentson, has been together for six years, refining its repertoire of ’50s jukebox hits, rockabilly rarities, and contemporary material.

After opening a second location for his Southampton-based Tripoli Gallery this year in East Hampton, Tripoli Patterson might have been expected to do a larger than usual version of his annual “Thanksgiving Collective.” But few could have foreseen just how large that vision would become.

The East Hampton Library will present “Gods and Monsters,” a 1998 film based on the last days of James Whale, the director of “Frankenstein” and “Bride of Frankenstein,” tomorrow at 4 p.m. Carter Burwell, who scored the film, will be present at the screening.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will inaugurate its 70th anniversary season on Sunday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church with performances at 3 and 5:30 p.m. Ottorino Respighi’s “Laud to the Nativity” will be the centerpiece of the program, which will also include shorter selections, among them medieval English carols, a Venetian polychoral work by Gabrieli, and Christmas music by composers including Vulpius and Praetorius.