Arts

    Landscape Pleasures: Down the Garden Path, the Parrish Art Museum’s annual two-day horticultural event and fund-raiser, will be held this weekend.

    On Saturday morning, Eric Groft, Paula Hayes, Doug Reed, and Edwina von Gal, all noted landscape designers, will participate in a symposium from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Then on Sunday, a self-led garden tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. will include four private gardens, several of which were designed by the guest speakers, and the Peconic Land Trust’s Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton will be open to ticketholders.

   As the live open-mike music was about to begin last Thursday night, Jesse Matsuoka, the co-owner of Phao Restaurant on Main Street in Sag Harbor, remarked that his decision to bring on Alfredo Merat as manager was one of the best he’d ever made. He wanted someone with a local connection, he said, to “spice up the front of the house.”

New Drawing Room Site

    Emily Goldstein and Victoria Munroe have opened the Drawing Room at a new site at 66 Newtown Lane.

    Their first exhibition, on view through June 25, includes drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photographs by John Alexander, Jennifer Bartlett, Linda Etcoff, Sharon Horvath, Mel Kendrick, Laurie Lambrecht, Donald Sultan, Jane Wilson, and Jack Youngerman.

Afro-Samba Music

    The Montauk Library will present “Black Orphe and Eurydice,” with the  Women of Color Productions Ensemble, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

   To ask Lonny Price, director of Guild Hall’s current revival of Murray Schisgal’s 1964 hit show “LUV,” what jobs he’s done in theater would be to miss the point. The more salient question would be “What jobs haven’t you done?”

    “I’m a moving target. I try not to get hit,” he joked during a break from a casting session on Sunday. He’d always wanted to conduct an orchestra, he said, and three years ago, for his 50th birthday, he did just that, putting together a 27-piece band in a show for friends and family.

Thomas Moran Celebrated

    A Victorian garden party hosted by the East Hampton Historical Society will kick off the society’s exhibition “Moran: A Family Celebration of Home and Place,” on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. 

    Chilled tea, lavender lemonade, pound cake with rose petals, sugared violets, and even Victorian children’s games will be part of the festivities, which will be in the garden behind Clinton Academy. All are welcome and there is no charge for the exhibition or the garden party.

   The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will open its thrift store doors on Saturday night for a preview cocktail party to showcase the work of several prominent New York designers who will transform its inventory of gently used treasures into rooms worthy of a style doyenne.

   The new home of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open its doors for the first time on Saturday, Nov. 10, the museum announced this week.

   Erudite and warm, droll but unaffected, Margery and Sheldon Harnick are like many successful couples who call the South Fork their second home. Their faces may not be immediately recognizable to hoi polloi, but they are secure in their accomplishments and here to relax, saving their socializing for theater events in the city.

    Mr. Harnick is a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning lyricist for musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me.” Ms. Harnick is an actress and painter who recently added photography to her range of creative outlets.

Manhattan puddles, I suspect, are vain.

    If so, then this must be the reason why:

Manhattan puddles know that they reflect

    Manhattan buildings, trees and sky.

But other puddles, too, may be as proud,

    Content to dwell in town and countryside.

Reflecting the locales that gave them birth,

    They glow with chauvinistic pride.

I wonder if beneath their calm facades,

    They tremble when they contemplate their fate.

They know reflected glory’s a mirage

Warhol Back in Town

    Glenn Horowitz Bookseller will celebrate its return to East Hampton this summer, in a new space at 87 Newtown Lane, by offering “Andy Warhol: Montauk Photos from the Hedges Collection,” opening on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Brian D’arcy James and Ana Gasteyer “go way, way back,” Ms. Gasteyer said in an interview on May 16. “We’ve always loved each other.” Putting them together for an evening of song was the brainchild of the Bay Street Theatre.

   Christopher Garetano, the producer and director of “Montauk Chronicles,” which will have its premiere at Gurney’s Inn tomorrow, admits that as a teenager he was “obsessed with the paranormal.”

Erica Jong was angry at times on Saturday night when she spoke at BookHampton’s East Hampton store. 

    The Bay Street Theatre’s first play of the summer season is Geraldine Aron’s “My Brilliant Divorce,” starring Polly Draper. This will be the American premiere of the play, which will start in previews on Tuesday and run through June 24.

    The production is directed by Matt McGrath, one of Bay Street’s artistic associates.

    The one-woman show tells the story of Angela, an American living in England whose British husband leaves her. She’s left to cope with a disapproving mother, a shifty attorney, and a bad case of hypochondria.

Jong on E.L. James

    BookHampton will host a provocative discussion with Erica Jong on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the East Hampton store. She will discuss the book “Fifty Shades of Grey” in a talk called “Is This What We’ve Come To?”

    Ms. Jong’s 1973 “Fear of Flying” was one of the first popular erotic novels penned by a woman. She has continued to write in that genre, crafting some of the more graphic sexual descriptions in contemporary fiction.

Lichtenstein Retrospective

    The Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday will open the largest exhibition to date of Roy Lichtenstein’s work —  more than 160 works, including drawings, paintings, and sculpture, from more than three decades, some of which have never been seen publicly.

    On Saturday, the 74th Guild Hall artist members show opened with scores of works in almost every possible medium, all submitted by South Fork artists.

    Lilly Wei, an independent curator, essayist, and critic who writes for Art in America and ARTnews, determined the winners, among them Mary Ellen Bartley, who took best in show honors for her photograph “A Road Divided.” The distinction entitles Ms. Bartley to a solo show at Guild Hall at a future date.

Show Tunes

    Music for Montauk will close its season of free, top-quality programs with the Gilbert and Sullivan Players of New York’s “I’ve Got a Little Twist,” a selection of favorites from the American musical theater, at the Montauk School on Saturday at 7 p.m.

    David Auxier wrote and directed the show, which weaves in show tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Lerner and Loewe, Meredith Wilson, and Jerry Herman. He also performs, along with a five-person ensemble. Mark York is the arranger and accompanist.

   The Montauk Music Festival, a free live-music showcase, is expected to bring thousands of fans to town from next Thursday through Sunday, May 20. They will be able to choose from 200 performances from 100 bands, sprinkled through 30 Montauk venues both indoors and out.

   There are certain prolific artists whose works always turn up at art fairs or secondary-market galleries. They may be widely popular, but with so much output they risk not always being seen in the best light. Even the best artists have their bad days, or at least their mediocre ones.

The Harnicks Outside

    “The Outdoor Museum” is a group of photographs taken by Margery Harnick and included in a book of the same title with poems by Sheldon Harnick, and a selection of both will be on view at Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center through July 29.

   July will be full of creative exploration at the Stony Brook Southampton campus. As part of a long-term vision of transforming the campus into a graduate-level facility for the study of various art disciplines, the school will continue and expand upon its summer offerings this year, redesigned and redesignated as Southampton Arts Summer.

    There will be two sessions in each discipline, a five-day session from July 11 to July 15 and a 12-day session from July 18 to July 29. The cost for five days including room and board is $1,655, and $2,595 for the 12-day session.

Work continues apace at the site of the Bull’s Head Inn, soon to be known as the Topping Rose House.

India’s Textiles

    On Saturday at 5 p.m., Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada will give a lecture, “India Unfolds: Seen Through a Textile Artist’s Eyes,” at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.

Guild Hall’s Members Show

    On Saturday from 5 to 6 p.m., Guild Hall will have a free opening reception for its 74th annual artist members exhibition. The show will remain on view through June 9.

    The Bay Street Theatre, which is celebrating the extension of its lease on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, has announced a 2012 mainstage lineup that includes comedy, a story of local baymen, and a world premiere musical.

   Is it possible that someone born a century ago could have upended the conventions of painting so much that his work is just as relevant to today’s artists as it was some 65 years ago when it was first painted?

    Few can claim such an impact, but one artist who continues to challenge, confound, and set the benchmark for absolute expressive abstraction well after his death is Springs’s own Jackson Pollock. Whether he is ignored, contemplated, aped, mocked, or appropriated, artists who have followed him have had no choice but to react in some way to his work.