Arts

It has certainly been a busy winter. Although some art galleries have closed or cut back hours, others are popping up like expensive boutiques in the summer.

The faculty musicians of International Music Sessions, a bicoastal music education program that encourages multicultural interaction through the arts, will have a concert at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Nimbus Productions will present “A Steady Rain,” a play starring Edward Kassar and Joe Pallister, beginning next Thursday and running through March 19 at Guild Hall. Jenna Mate is directing.

Works by John Ashbery, Rudy Burckhardt, and Larry Rivers, three artists with long associations with the South Fork, are included in a group show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in Manhattan. Erica-Lynn Huberty will display an installation of her artwork and read from her Sag Harbor-based novella, “Watchwork: A Tale in Time,” tonight at 6 in the Malia Mills pop-up gallery space in East Hampton.

On Saturday afternoon, the Watermill Center will present the latest open-rehearsal performance of its resident artist group Bruno Guida and P.L.U.T.O., an ensemble of stage directors, actors, and writers formed in 2015 at Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab. The performance, “Black Box,” examines the group’s various backgrounds and cultures.

Montauk will be the site on Saturday of this year’s ZIMA!, a theatrical scavenger hunt. For several years Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls have used different sites on the South Fork to mount a midwinter interactive theatrical journey to collect clues and solve a riddle

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Playing a psychiatrist in David Mamet's new play, “The Penitent,” Chris Bauer must wrestle with religion, the press, and the legal system as well as "the athletic technical demands" of the play.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a new All Star Comedy Show on Saturday at 8 p.m. Once again the evening will be hosted by Joseph Vecsey of the Optimum Cable TV “Unmovers” spots and host of “The Call Back,” a podcast devoted to the art and business of comedy. Richie Redding, Dave Sirus, and Marie Faustin will be the guest comics.

The exhibition “A Sense of Place,” which opens tomorrow at the Southampton Arts Center, has a very clear objective, according to the artist Bastienne Schmidt, who organized it: “I wanted to see how artists interpret the idea of place. Is it something spatial, something political, something social, something emotional? It can really manifest itself in multiple ways.”

“Madoo Talks: House and Garden,” three lectures that will examine a variety of relationships between domestic life and gardens, will take place in the Sagaponack conservancy’s winter house studio on Sundays at noon during February and March.

Opera, film, and music are on the menu at Guild Hall this week, starting on Saturday at 1 p.m. with The Met: Live in HD, which will be simulcasting a new production of Dvorak’s “Rusalka” with Kristine Opolais in the title role. The director, Mary Zimmerman, brings her theatrical imagination to the fairy tale of love and longing, rejection and redemption. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

Helen Charash, a part-time East Hampton resident, is featured in a new documentary "Eva Hesse," about the life and art of her sister. It will be screened at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow.

“Black and White,” a group exhibition of work by 14 artists, will open at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through April 16. The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present “Waterlines,” an exhibition of approximately 40 works by Michele Dragonetti from her “Boat Hulls” photography series, from tomorrow through March 5.

“Viewpoints @ 29th Street,” the Watermill Center’s series of talks at Robert Wilson’s loft in Manhattan, will open its 2017 series with a conversation between Katharina Otto-Bernstein, a filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter, and Annette Insdorf, a writer and film professor at Columbia University.

“Barney’s Wall,” a film in the making for several years, celebrates Barney Rosset’s creativity and his fierce devotion to First Amendment rights. Although the film is still a few steps short of completion, a rough cut was shown last month in Manhattan at the Century Association.

Jenno Topping’s commitment to mentor and support women in film has led to one of her most noteworthy and lauded achievements to date: helping to bring “Hidden Figures” to the screen.

“Visionaries,” the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, which opened on Saturday, celebrates the avant-garde instincts and connoisseurship of the people who shaped the museum’s collection. Although it contains precious few American artists, that hasn’t stopped its curators from celebrating one American painting in particular, Jackson Pollock’s “Al­chemy.”

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre Live production from London’s Donmar Warehouse of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play “Saint Joan” on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Southampton Artists Association Winter Art Show will take place from today through Feb. 26 at the Southampton Cultural Center. A reception is set for Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. The Winter Salon Series at Malia Mills, a pop-up gallery in the clothing purveyor’s Main Street, East Hampton, space, will open a new group exhibition with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Harper’s Apartment, the Manhattan branch of East Hampton’s Harper’s Books, will open “Parallel Lines,” a show of 20 years of work by Don Christensen, with a reception for the artist today from 6 to 8 p.m.

“Underwater Dreams,” a 2014 documentary about the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants who create a robot from Home Depot products, will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m.

The South Fork is no stranger to world-class musicians and recording artists, be they summer visitors, second-home owners, or year-round residents. One in the latter category may not be a household name, but Zach Zunis will be watching the 59th annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday with particular interest.

In Process @ the Watermill Center will provide an opportunity for engagement with Cleek Schrey and Gillian Walsh, two of the center’s artists in residence, on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

“Love Letters,” the A.R. Gurney play in which two characters, Melissa and Andrew, sit side by side reading letters, notes, and cards that span nearly 50 years of their separated lives, will be performed by Andrew Botsford and Jane Baldwin on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Southampton Inn.

The Southampton Arts Center will present “Beneath the Underdog: The Music of Charles Mingus” on Saturday at 7 p.m. Selections from Mr. Mingus’s music will be performed by Claes Brondal on drums, Bob Hovey on trombone, Santi Debriano on bass, Eric Schugren on saxophone, and Bill Smith on piano.

Iris Smyles, the literary editor of The Star’s East magazine, will host “An Evening of Love and Other Horrors” to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Malia Mills shop on Main Street in East Hampton. Starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the event will feature readings by Patricia Marx, a humorist and staff writer at The New Yorker, Frederic Tuten, whose books include “Tintin in the New World,” and Ms. Smyles herself.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and the Hamptons International Film Festival will present the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film in two programs on Saturday at Bay Street, two weeks before the Oscar telecast.

The Wamponamon Masonic Lodge No. 437, which was established in Sag Harbor in 1858, has been off limits to nonmembers for as long as anyone can remember, save for a single open house last June when the public was invited to see the painted Masonic symbols and celestial imagery on the inner sanctum’s walls and the domed ceiling by John Capello, an artist and member of the Masonic Brotherhood.

The local action of the 2017 campaign of One Billion Rising, a mass international demonstration launched five years ago to end violence against women, will be presented in Guild Hall’s JDTLab series on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The Montauk Library will present “Yvette Sings Ronstadt: Rock and Roll, Country, Big Band, and Mexico,” a free concert by Yvette Malavet-Blum, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.