Arts

Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy-nominated a cappella ensemble rooted in African-American history and culture, will perform at Guild Hall on Saturday evening at 8.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold a birthday concert for its founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, on Saturday at 6 p.m.

The Parrish Art Museum's “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism, 1969 to Today” will showing works of art capturing time and space precisely.

With its $200 per week classes, the Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, also known as the Art Barge, could easily be one of the most un-Hamptons places on the South Fork.

“Neo, Neo, Neoclassicism,” a focused exhibition of work by Joe Zucker, will open tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Sept. 4. The Amagansett Historical Association will open its sixth annual art show with a reception at the Jackson Carriage House on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. A benefit for the association, the exhibition will continue through Sept. 3.

Green Afternoon V, an annual interactive garden installation and performance by the Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. at the residence of the architects Peter Gumpel and Marcia Previti at 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, a contemporary dance company that captures and communicates universal human encounters through dynamic, purposeful movement, will perform three works from its repertory, “Agawam,” “Home,” and “The Warm-Up,” at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon at 4. Tickets are $10.

In the Bay Street Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” audiences will note its innovative approach to the enduring wit and captivating plot of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will open a new show today featuring artists who managed to transcend totalitarianism to pursue pure abstraction in defiance of Communist Party doctrine during the Cold War.

Revel in Dimes will bring its original musical blend of rock, jazz, and blues to the terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow evening at 6.

“High Rise Lazarus” at Fireplace Project is a jumble of works in several series and mediums, a genre mash-up. Four different series of works are interspersed throughout the space so that their disjunctive and uniting effects can be experienced at once.

When Teri Kennedy, a Springs artist, agreed to serve as curator for the 50th annual Springs invitational art exhibition, she received advice from friends about how to approach it.

“Avedon’s America,” images that reflect the unflagging interest of one man in the faces that defined the country and its values for more than half a century, will soon grace Guild Hall’s galleries with a gala opening tied to its annual benefit on Aug. 11.

Mandy Gonzalez and the Bacon Brothers will perform in coming days at Guild Hall.

In “Take Every Wave,” Rory Kennedy captures the surfer Laird Hamilton’s devil-may-care attitude and his aquatic accomplishments. It will be screened Aug. 4 at Gurney’s.

A barn show, a road show, four studio tours and new shows at Roman Fine Art, Romany Kramoris, Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, and The Art Barge, are all on tap for this week.

The Jazz on the Terrace series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will welcome back the Hendrik Meurkens Quartet, which appeared at the museum two summers ago, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Mr. Meurkens, a harmonica and vibraphone virtuoso who is a regular of the New York City jazz scene, is acclaimed for his mastery of Brazilian jazz. Reared in Germany, he lived in Rio de Janeiro for 10 years and immersed himself in the country’s music styles.

He will be joined by Misha Tsiganov on piano, Gustavo Amarante on bass, and Rogerio Boccato on drums. Tickets are $12, free for members.

“About Face,” an exhibition of work by 70 artists presented by the New York Academy of Art, will open tomorrow at the Southampton Arts Center with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 17.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series provides a platform for accomplished workers in every imaginable field to share the cutting-edge ideas that shape their work. This year’s talks begin on Tuesday and continue through Aug. 17.

Bill O’Connell’s Triple Play Trio will perform a free concert of jazz and Latin music at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. In addition to Mr. O’Connell, the band includes Mayra Casales, a Latin percussionist, and Peter Martin Weiss on bass.

Mr. O’Connell is a piano soloist, arranger, music director, and accompanist. His talents as a pianist and arranger have been tapped by such Latin musicians as Mongo Santamaria and Dave Valentin and the jazz icons Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, and Gato Barbieri.

Comedy for a Cause, an evening of dinner, drinks, and a comedy show hosted by Felicia Madison, will take place on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. Four comedians, Jocelyn Chia, Clayton Fletcher, Nancy Lombardo, and Erin Maguire, will round out the program, which is a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Tickets are $185 and can be purchased in advance at feliciamadison. com.

Janice Friedman, a jazz pianist and vocalist, and Marco Panascia, a bassist, will perform a program of jazz standards and original songs in a free concert at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will present “Long Island Landscapes,” a group show organized by Peter J. Marcelle, from Saturday through Aug. 1, with a reception set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. “The Girl Next Door” will open Saturday at the RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. A benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an organization dedicated to serving L.G.B.T.Q. youth, the show will run through Aug. 13.

Not satisfied with one house, this year the Hampton Designer Showhouse, which benefits Southampton Hospital, will feature two next-door houses in a new subdivision to the west of Southampton Village.

Who better to consider the question “Is fashion art?” than Valerie Steele, a writer, fashion historian, and director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Dr. Steele will do so at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. in a talk that will explore how the exhibition of fashion in museums has blurred the line between art and fashion and how fashion designers, curators, and critics weigh in on the subject. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. Tickets are $12, free for members and students.

“Summer Roses: The Gypsy Girl and the Nightingale,” an hourlong concert of music by Spanish composers, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane on Sunday at 5 p.m.

With a wide span of years and no real focus, the show “Moving Targets: American Art From 1918 to 2012” is as rambling as its title suggests. Still, it has enough standout pieces to make it worth a look.

“Barney’s Wall,” a new documentary about Barney Rosset, the Grove Press and Evergreen Review publisher who successfully waged battles against censorship and introduced to American readers such writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet, will be shown at Guild Hall next Thursday.

The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will take a break from its music programs on Wednesday evening.

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,” the poet laureate Robert Southey informed Charlotte Bronte when she sent him her poems, along with her sibling Anne’s writing, to critique. The Brontes went on, quite efficiently, to make it their business.