Arts

Dilapidated buildings on urban streets, flora overtaking abandoned gas pumps on a country lane, the evanescence of a hazy Venice sunset. At Ashawagh Hall, the eyes moved from theme to theme and from subject to subject, witness to how another set of eyes saw the world and committed it to paper and canvas.

The concert series “Bach, Before & Beyond” will begin its second season at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor with a performance by Emilia Donato on Sunday at 3 p.m. A 22-year-old soprano from New York City, she received a degree in voice from Bard College, where she won the Concerto Competition and the Lombardi Prize.

National Theatre Live will return to Guild Hall with an encore screening of “The Deep Blue Sea,” a masterful drama by the English playwright Terence Rattigan, on Saturday evening at 8.

Written in 1850 and set two centuries earlier, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is in some respects eerily relevant in an election year punctuated by the revelation and condemnation of sexual indiscretions by politicians and other public figures, with press coverage in effect serving the same function as Hester Prynne’s scarlet A.

Clifford Ross, an East End multimedia artist known for his “Hurricane” series of dramatic, large-scale photographs of wild coastal storms, high-resolution landscape photographs, and mixed-media installations, has designed the sets for the premiere engagement of “Marksman,” a performance by the Kate Weare Company that will take place Wednesday through Nov. 13 at the Joyce Theater in New York City.

The Amagansett Library, in association with the Art Barge, will offer free basic drawing and figure drawing classes on Saturdays in November and December, under the tutelage of Linda Capello. A memorial exhibition of the artwork of Francesco Bologna, the East Hampton artist, gallerist, and frame shop owner who died in August, will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. Family members and collectors will be lending paintings and pastel works on paper.

A comedy show to benefit the Southampton Lions Club and the North Sea Fire Department will take place Saturday at 8 p.m. at 230 Elm Street in Southampton.

Work by two of the Watermill Center’s resident artists will be presented on Saturday when Andrew Ondrejcak opens his studio between 2 and 3 p.m. and Ebe Oke holds an open rehearsal from 3 to 4.

The film noir aesthetic has appealed to Adam Baranello, a Hampton Bays-based multimedia artist, for as long as he can remember. B“I love black-and-white film, and the over-saturated black of black-and-white,” he said. “Aesthetically, I feel it has a cool artistic quality to it, and kind of takes you out of reality because the film isn’t supposed to be super lifelike. It’s supposed to be a little hyperbolic, or even a little more specific, like the characters don’t have every range of emotion that a real human has.”

Susan Rosenberg, the author of “Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art,” the first in-depth study of Ms. Brown’s work, will give an illustrated talk about the choreographer’s career, answer questions, and sign copies of her book tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

Exactly one week before Halloween, two artists decided to offer their own trick and treats at a small beachfront cottage in Bridgehampton destined to face the wrecking ball.

The Southampton Arts Center will present a solo concert by the singer-songwriter Jennifer Lee Snowden on Saturday at 7 p.m. A New York City resident, Ms. Snowden recently performed solo at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has opened for Norah Jones’s band Puss n Boots, and has performed at venues from Manhattan to France, Italy, Australia, and Fiji. Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens, and $10 for students and children.

Many notable artists — among them Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, and Brice Marden — worked at museums early in their careers, usually as security guards, but few kept one foot in the studio and one in a museum for three decades. George Negroponte managed to do just that.

Since their inauguration in 2009, the Parrish Art Museum’s biennial “Artists Choose Artists” exhibitions have demonstrated the enduring depth and diversity of the East End’s art community. The series’ fourth iteration, which will open Sunday and remain on view through Jan. 16, will again feature the work of seven distinguished jurors and the 14 artists they have selected from more than 200 submissions.

“Gruesome Playground Injuries,” a two-person play by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will have four performances at Guild Hall, beginning tonight at 7.

The Southampton Arts Center is taking Halloween seriously this year. In addition to its Spooktacular Haunted House and its exhibition “Chas Adams: Family and Friends,” both continuing through Monday, the center will screen two creepy classics this weekend.

Photographs by Jacob Fellander, a Swedish artist whose large-scale cityscapes and landscapes have been prominently displayed at c/o the Maidstone inn in East Hampton, will be featured in the new film “Inconceivable,” a psychological drama written and directed by Jonathan Baker and starring Nicolas Cage, Faye Dunaway, and Gina Gershon.

Prudence Wright Holmes, an actress with extensive credits in theater, film, and television, will bring her solo show “Agatha Christa Is Missing!” to the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

In 2008, when David Mamet debuted “November,” his play about the madness of American politics, he could have hardly foreseen the season of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But he sure tried.

“Paradise Lost,” a solo exhibition of work by the Springs artist Barry McCallion, will open at Ille Arts in Amagansett with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through Nov. 21. Photographs from the 1990s by Patrick McMullan, who has captured celebrities at play for more than 30 years, are on view at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor through Nov. 10.

Had enough of the 2016 presidential campaign? A visit to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday evening at 8 will transport you back to the 1960s for an evening of music. “The Sixties Show” features seven New York rockers who will perform music by the Beatles, the Byrds, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, Buffalo Springfield, the Who, Bob Dylan, the Doors, Cream, Moody Blues, and other iconic acts of the period.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Salon Series of classical music concerts will conclude its fall run with a performance by the Bulgarian-born pianist Nadejda Vlaeva tomorrow at 6 p.m. Among her many awards are first prize in the Liszt Competition in Lucca, Italy, and the Yahama Award for best Brahms interpretation.

Since opening this spring, Art Space 98, at the upper end of Newtown Lane in East Hampton, has presented an eclectic group of artists. The owners, Rosemarie Schiller and Tho­mas Buhler, began by showing their own work, then followed with Camille Perrottet’s photography, video, and installation work and Michael Oruch’s geometric abstractions.

Not unlike the small steps that babies take until they become toddlers who can run around on steady footing, the Children’s Literature Fellows program at Stony Brook Southampton has begun to grow up and come into its own.

Anne Cavolo Tedesco, a classical pianist, will perform a free concert of works by Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Isaac Albéniz, and Brahms on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.

An examination of the work of Connie Fox and William King will lead a slate of new exhibitions opening at Guild Hall on Sunday with a special reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Serving as guest curator for “Connie Fox and William King: An Artist Couple” is Gail Levin, a professor of art history at the City University of New York, author of many books and monographs on artists, and a contributor to The East Hampton Star. She is also the author of the exhibition catalog essay and will interview Ms. Fox preceding the reception at 2 p.m.

A presidential campaign that only grows more nauseating as its climactic moment nears, violence in America’s streets and around the world, and the economic struggles common to so many — given the state of things, the timing is right for soothing sounds evoking simpler times.

“Land/Sea,” an exhibition of work by John Todaro, Phyllis Chillingworth, and Annie Sessler and Jim Goldberg, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. “Ned Smyth: Moments of Water,” an exhibition of large sculptures, photographs, and smaller installations, will open on Sunday at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, N.J., where it will be on view through April 2.

A simulcast of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” part of the Met: Live in HD series, will be shown on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. A pre-opera lecture by the renowned composer and conductor Victoria Bond will take place at noon.

After traveling the film festival circuit for the last several months, the documentary “Legs: A Big Issue in a Small Town” arrived on Oct. 10 exactly where it began: in Sag Harbor Village, where Larry Rivers’s 16-foot-tall “Legs” still stands — as either an illegal structure or an artistic sculpture, depending on one’s viewpoint — attached to a house at the corner of Madison and Henry Streets, even as it awaits a State Supreme Court decision on its fate.