Arts

Richmond Burton likes to paint big, unless he wants to paint small. He uses oil paints applied so thinly they appear matte, sometimes translucent, and a lot more like acrylic. He is a trained architect who prefers mark-making in a two-dimensional form, and he really likes color, but sometimes he does not. His work over the past two decades has shown a dance across the spectrum of rigid systems of grids and complete abandonment of that structure for more organic abstraction.

Lady Gaga Portraits

“Portraits of Lady Gaga,” an exhibition of high-definition video portraits by Robert Wilson, will have its United States premiere on Saturday at the Watermill Center’s summer benefit and will remain on view through Sept. 14.

“My Life Is a Musical,” a musical comedy by Adam Overett, will have its world premiere with a five-week run at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor from Tuesday through Aug. 31.

The play’s protagonist is Parker, a shy accountant with one particular quirk: When he leaves his apartment every morning, he hears people singing and sees them dancing, to the accompaniment of an invisible orchestra. Nobody else knows this is happening. His life is a musical — and he hates musicals.

“Voyeur,” a production of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, will take place on five evenings beginning next Thursday at 7, at the Parsons Blacksmith Shop in Springs, across from Ashawagh Hall. Founded and directed by Kate Mueth, the company is dedicated to creating innovative dance theater that explores the female voice.

“Voyeur” is the story of a young girl, told through a series of short vignettes. Ms. Mueth calls the program an “inside-out” theater-art installation, as the action is watched through windows while the audience walks around the outside of the open theater.

The East Hampton Historical Society’s summer antiques show will take place on the grounds of Mulford Farm Saturday and Sunday, with a preview cocktail party tomorrow evening from 6 to 8:30 for buyers wanting first dibs.

Fifty-five dealers will participate in the show, whose focus is on decorative items for the home and garden. Among the offerings will be vintage rattan and bamboo furniture, lighting, textiles, American formal and country painted furniture, Art Deco and Moderne furniture, garden ornaments, wrought iron accessories, and much more.

“Me and My Dad,” a musical fund-raiser for the scholarship fund of Pianofest, will be held Sunday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southampton Historical Museum. Melissa Errico, a Broadway singer and actress, will perform, accompanied on piano by Michael Errico, her father.

The program will include songs by Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Stein, Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers, and a few “surprises.” Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served in the museum garden.

Tickets are $200, $100 for attendees younger than 30.

“Clever Little Lies,” a comedy by the Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro that premiered last fall at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., will open at Guild Hall on Wednesday and run through Aug. 3. The original cast—Marlo Thomas, Greg Mullavey, Jim Stanek, and Kate Wetherhead—will star in the production, which will be directed by David Saint, artistic director of George Street Playhouse.

“Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” a documentary about a woman who influenced fashion, beauty, art, publishing, and culture during the last century, will be screened at Guild Hall Monday at 7 p.m. Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, her grandson’s wife, the film will be introduced by Barbara Slifka and followed by a panel discussion with China Machado, a television producer and former model; the filmmaker, and other guests.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present the world premiere of a mixed-media theatrical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Galapagos,” with performances scheduled for Monday, Wednesday, and next Thursday at 6 p.m. and on Friday, July 25, at 4 p.m., in the Lichtenstein Theater.

Alan Hicks, a native Australian and trained jazz musician, never thought he would be directing a documentary film about the jazz legend Clark Terry, but that’s exactly what he ended up doing in “Keep On Keepin’ On,” the next film in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series at Guild Hall.

Bill King at Art Barge

Artists Speak at the Art Barge will feature William King, a sculptor whose work is on view at Duck Creek Farm in Springs, in conversation with Janet Goleas, an artist, writer, and curator, on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present the first comprehensive survey since 1966 of the work of William Glackens from Sunday through Oct. 13. Spanning the artist’s career from the 1890s through the 1930s, the exhibition will include more than 70 paintings and works on paper from important public and private collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Cleveland Museum.

When talking with young people, Paul Davis is quick to emphasize that becoming an artist isn’t so much about natural-born talent, but rather, how much you’re willing to apply yourself.

Looking at a handful of childhood drawings one recent morning, Mr. Davis acknowledged how far he’s come since the early stick-figure drawings of his youth. He also hoped to clear up any misconceptions.

Anyone looking for crowds this weekend is sure to enjoy this week’s return of two art fairs that have succeeded in becoming a fixture in Bridgehampton in the second weekend in July.

Once the young upstart, Art Market Hamptons will return now for a fourth year with a slightly different spelling of its name at its space at the Bridgehampton Museum on the grounds of Corwith House. ArtHamptons will return for a seventh year in the same space it occupied last year at Nova’s Ark on Millstone Road.

Southampton Arts Summer 2014 at Stony Brook Southampton will present four public events during the coming week, starting Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a free staged reading in the Avram Theater of “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.”

The reading will feature Mercedes Ruehl, Matthew Klam, Ain Gordon, Stephen Hamilton, and Christian Scheider reading from a script shaped by Kathie Russo, Gray’s widow, and Lucy Sexton, a theater director, from the monologist’s published work as well as from more personal material.

Jack Wilkins, a renowned jazz guitarist, will perform in concert at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 5 p.m. A fixture on the international jazz scene since the early 1970s, Mr. Wilkins has collaborated with Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Bob Brookmeyer, and Buddy Rich, among others.

He has recorded many albums, played numerous international festivals, and was awarded a National Education Association grant in recognition of his contribution to the guitar. Mr. Wilkins teaches at the New School, the Manhattan School of Music, N.Y.U., and Long Island University.

Slightly frazzled, toting coffee in a takeout container, Nina Yankowitz admitted having been up until 4 a.m. — not partying but working — as she welcomed a Sunday-morning visitor to the Sag Harbor home she shares with her husband, Barry Holden. While Mr. Holden, an architect and sometime collaborator, disappeared, laptop in hand, for a conference call, Ms. Yankowitz led her guest to an upstairs living room overlooking Noyac Bay.

Those who wonder what Albert Pink­ham Ryder’s work might have looked like mashed up with the 20th century will enjoy “Color and Time: Paintings by Roy Newell 1956-2000” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center.

Eric Dever in Chelsea

“Clever Little Lies,” a 2013 comedy by the Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro that premiered last fall at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., will open at Guild Hall on Wednesday and run through Aug. 3. The original cast — Marlo Thomas, Greg Mullavey, Jim Stanek, and Kate Wetherhead — will appear in the production, which will be directed by David Saint, artistic director of George Street Playhouse.

“Villa Diodati,” a film of a chamber opera by Bank Street Films and produced by Gabriel Nussbaum, will be previewed at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The plot revolves around the fateful summer of 1816, when Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein” while staying in Geneva at the Villa Diodati with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. An American couple on a Swiss train find themselves thrown into the past and into the lakefront villa on a dreary summer day when Mary Shelley is creating her monster.

“Travesties” by Sir Tom Stoppard opened Saturday as the second production in Bay Street’s season of — as Scott Schwartz, the artistic director, puts it — “art and revolution.” If one were to Google the words “plays about art and revolution,” this provocative and brilliant offering by the Isaac Newton of theater would most likely be first, or at least in the top 10.

Visitors to Aubrey Roemer’s cool, sizable studio, in a rented basement apartment in Montauk, are greeted with a sea of local faces painted on linen and strung from the rafters of the room. The work was originally called “The Montauk Portrait Project,” but she has since decided to call it “Leviathan,” to represent a large vessel of the sea.

Her goal was to capture at least 10 percent of the hamlet’s year-round community, roughly 400 people. At last count, on June 19, she had completed 100 pieces, and has now decided to shoot for 500.

Leonard Bernstein meets the Choral Society of the Hamptons!

Sounds unlikely? You would have changed your mind if you had been at one of the society’s two concerts at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday.

Mark Mangini conducted the redoubtable choir in the difficult but exciting “Chichester Psalms,” two numbers from Bernstein’s Mass, which opened the Kennedy Center Opera House, and songs from the forgotten musical “Peter Pan” and the well-remembered “West Side Story” and “Candide.” Bible to Broadway indeed — and all under a church roof.

John Leguizamo, an Emmy Award-winning actor and comedian who has appeared in more than 50 films, will take the stage at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater at 8 tonight with “Ghetto Klown,” a one-man play directed by Fisher Stevens. Mr. Leguizamo will draw upon characters from his adolescent memories of Queens, his early acting career, and Hollywood film sets. Balcony tickets are $45, $43 for members; orchestra tickets are $65 and $63, and prime orchestra seats are $100, $95.

The Perlman Music Program’s summer music school on Shelter Island is presenting two free concerts this weekend in the Geffenberg Performance Tent.

Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. the program’s teachers will present their annual concert. Artists will include Yi-Fang Huang, Jeffrey Irvine, Ron Leonard, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman himself, Patrick Romano, John Root, and Pauline Yang. Saturday’s concert, also at 7:30, will feature the school’s students.

More information and a full summer calendar may be found at perlmanmusicprogram.org.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Sounds of Summer series will resume tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by Mambo Loco. Formed in 2003, Mambo Loco blends classic Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music with old-school Latin and Latin Jazz.

Maya Lin at the Parrish

    The Parrish Art Museum’s Platform series, which consists of artist-driven projects that approach exhibition and programming in unconventional ways, will present seven works by Maya Lin from tomorrow through Oct. 13.

    Since 1981, when Ms. Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., at the age of 21, she has established herself as one of the most important public artists of our time.

The Capitol dome that greets visitors emerging from Union Station is a jarring welcome to Washington, D.C. Constructed to be a reassuring monument to probity and permanence, it now stands for the nation’s crippling divisions, personified by the voting members of the United States Congress. Seeing it in the flesh, unmediated by pixels or screens, it is a palpable and potent talisman of dysfunction.

“Bernstein! From Bible to Broadway,” this year’s Choral Society of the Hamptons summer concert, will be presented in two performances on Saturday, at 5 and 7:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

The program includes Leonard Bernstein’s most significant sacred work, “Chichester Psalms,” performed in Hebrew, along with selections from his “Mass,” arrangements from “West Side Story,” a song from the seldom-performed score of “Peter Pan,” and choruses from the operetta “Candide.”