Arts

"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.

Tonight at 8, Guild Hall’s Rock Cinema series will present “Aerosmith Rocks Donington,” a documentary that captured the rock group’s concert at the 2014 Download Festival in Leicestershire, England.

The filmmaker has published a book, “Independent Ed: Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life,” and has a new series, “Public Morals,” to air on TNT.

The second film in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series, “Listen to Me Marlon,” has no talking heads, no interviewees, no narrator. With the exception of a few television news clips, the voice on the soundtrack is Marlon Brando’s, and it affords access to the actor’s multidimensionality seldom available even to his friends.

Ballet, jazz, satire, film, and art will offer a cultural tasting menu at Guild Hall during the coming week. Ballet Hispanico, which sold out its performance last year, will return with “CARMEN.maquia,” a reimagining of Bizet’s tragic opera, on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Comedy Club at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present Darrell Hammond on Saturday at 8 p.m. Mr. Hammond was a “Saturday Night Live” regular from 1995 to 2009, the longest tenure of any cast member in the show’s history.

The Neo-Political Cowgirls, a dance theater group based in East Hampton and led by Kate Mueth, an actor and director, will perform “Voyeur,” which premiered in Springs last summer, at the gallery Art Von Frei in Berlin from next Thursday through Aug. 2.

Rhonda Denet and the Silver Fox Trio will appear at the Montauk Library in “A Tribute to Frank Sinatra” on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

The Watermill Center’s annual Scaler Summer Lecture Series will launch on Monday at 7:30 p.m. with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a founding member of the Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot. The series brings leading figures in the arts, sciences, and humanities to the center for free talks open to its summer resident artists and the public.

Guild Hall’s Songbook and Salon series, which is held at the Southampton Arts Center, will present “My Heart Stood Still: The Love Songs of Richard Rodgers” on Saturday evening at 8.

Kate Donachie's exhibition of paintings at Fireplace Project are inspired by a letter from Georgia O'Keeffe to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

“Me and Dad: Back for More,” a musical benefit party for Pianofest in the Hamptons, will take place July 26 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southampton Historical Museum.

“Oh, man, a whole long time,” is how many years Marcia Ball has brought her musical gumbo of East Texas blues, zydeco, and Gulf Coast R&B to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

South Fork art dealers reported mixed results during and after last week’s two art fairs, Art Southampton and Market Art + Design. As might be expected, those who reported sales were more willing to speak for the record than the disappointed participants.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present the next installment of its Architectural Sessions program, “Fix This Town!” tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Paul Reiser, a multitalented actor, comedian, and writer, will bring his national comedy tour to the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Monday at 8 p.m.

Guild Hall will present “I Wasn’t Trying to Be Funny,” a one-woman show by Sue Costello, a comedian and actress, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The performance follows Ms. Costello’s life from her childhood through teenage adventures to a career in stand-up, on television, and in films.

Harriet Slaughter, a poet and artist, and Mira J. Spektor, a poet and composer, will bring their talents to the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. as part of its Women Celebrating Women series.