Arts

In 1994, former Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and incumbent Bill Clinton all convened at Yorba Linda, Calif., for the funeral of Richard Nixon. It was an unprecedented assemblage of American power. But what did they talk about?

When Sara Meltzer and Suchi Reddy concocted the idea of the Dream Machine, a traveling pop-up art exhibition housed in a 1978 Airstream trailer, they didn’t realize the challenges of executing it.

The Eastville Community Historical Society has a unique and rich story to tell about its background and earliest residents, one it can and will tell visually in the coming days.

The 99 artifacts chosen by Richard and Rosanne Barons and Frank Newbold for “The History of East Hampton in 99 Objects” at the Clinton Academy possess historical ties to East Hampton, but some of their backgrounds remain a mystery almost 200 to 300 years later.

Dudu Fisher, an Israeli singer known for his performances as Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables” on Broadway, London’s West End, and in Israel, will perform a concert of secular and liturgical music on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton.

The Southampton Cultural Center, in partnership with the Chabad Southampton Jewish Center, will present the first annual Southampton Jewish Film Festival, a series of 12 weekly screenings.

Jim Breuer will bring his stand-up comedy to the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Monday.

Sounds of Summer, a monthly series of outdoor music programs at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will present Mambo Loco tomorrow at 6 p.m. on the museum’s outdoor terrace.

Music has filled the air from one end of the South Fork to the other in the late spring and early summer of 2015. With the Independence Day weekend’s arrival, the rock ’n’ rollers will kick it up several notches as the crowds settle in.

The Parrish Art Museum’s “Platform” series, in which artists are invited to create new works that engage the museum’s architecture and collection, will present “Platform: Tara Donovan” from Saturday through Oct. 18.

Be sure to catch the landscapes of Ralph Carpentier at the Amagansett Library. The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will present the 21st annual Member Art Exhibit at Ashawagh Hall this weekend. Many gallery listings have shows using new and innovative materials.

Guild Hall will pay homage to decades past this weekend with three evenings of music and theater, featuring the Beach Boys, the lyrics and melodies of Stephen Sondheim, and the classic Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense.”

Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation,” considered by many to be his masterpiece, will be performed on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton by the Choral Society of the Hamptons.

The curator of the Jazz en Plain Air series at the Parrish Art Museum, Richie Siegler, will headline tomorrow even­ing’s concert, accompanied by his quartet. Guest musicians will also play, but the remaining lineup has not yet been announced.

“MOTHER (and me),” a solo play written by and starring Melinda Buckley, will come to the Bay Street Theater for one night on Monday.

A sure sign of summer is the arrival of free outdoor movies at various locations on the South Fork.

Carol Steinberg was speaking before an audience of creative types at the New York Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan, where she teaches courses on artists’ rights, when a choreographer came up to ask her about a problem.

Gallop on down to Studio 11 in East Hampton’s Red Horse Plaza to see new work by Eugene Brodsky. The artist Mary Delany will teach oil and acrylic painting at The Depot Gallery, home of the Montauk Artists Association.

Bay Street Theater will present the East Coast premiere of “Five Presidents,” a play by Rick Cleveland, an Emmy Award-winning writer, from Tuesday through July 19.

The Southampton Historical Museum will throw a party to celebrate the town’s 375th birthday on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Rogers Mansion on Meeting House Lane.

Lucy Winton’s Wainscott studio is in a whitewashed barn with two large roll-up garage doors. Inside, the space is white, vast, and almost empty of furnishings, but the walls are covered with art. The adjacent bay is the studio of Bryan Hunt, a sculptor who has been her companion for 14 years.

Mortified Live, a storytelling event in which adults share their childhood writings, art, lyrics, plays, home movies, and other media in front of total strangers, will bring its comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Saturday at 6 p.m.

Jesse Harris and Star Rover will play songs from their new album “No Wrong No Right” tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Harper’s Books in East Hampton.

Kelsey Brookes investigates ancient botanical compounds in a show of paintings at the Eric Firestone Gallery while Collage at Dodds and Eder show the “Strength in Layers." Jack Lenor Larsen speaks at the Art Barge in an interview with Janet Goleas.

Over the last several months, the guitarist G.E. Smith has brought a number of unique performances to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. In October, he, Jim Weider, and Larry Campbell presented “Masters of the Telecaster,” an ensemble performance in which each played his favored electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster.

“Chuck Close,” a documentary by Marion Cajori, will be screened Friday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where an exhibition of the artist’s photographs is on view.

“Best of Enemies,” a documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the 1968 television debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., will inaugurate the Hampton International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series on July 11.

The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of “Flying Point,” a multimedia portrait of the contemporary Shinnecock community and the tribe’s history, on Saturday.

Many new shows open with new materials and interesting installations.

The Perlman Music Program will present “Classical Collaborations” concerts at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Saturday and at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.