Arts

Gayle Kirschenbaum spent a long time figuring out how to forgive her mother for what she has described as a difficult upbringing, throughout which her mother was sharp-tongued, critical, and lacking in empathy and sensitivity.

It wasn’t just a dream. Music for Montauk is back again this year, and in the capable hands of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, who rebooted the popular classical music series last year with some off-season events and a week of musical surprises in August. The future of the concerts had been uncertain after the death of the founder, Ruth Widder, in 2013.

Guild Hall of East Hampton is having a sale on tickets to select summer programs.

For the past several decades, a movement has been taking shape under the radar of the art world and even the artists within it. That will change with the opening this weekend of the Parrish Art Museum’s “Radical Seafaring,” a pioneering exhibition and catalog produced by Andrea Grover that seeks to define “offshore art.”

“Sacred Threads,” an exhibition of ecclesiastical vestments and textiles from the 14th to the 18th centuries from the collection of Jill Lasersohn, will open to the public on Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton and remain on view through May 30. A reception benefiting a number of local charities will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a piano concert by Soloman Eichner, with special guest Tanya Gabrielian, also a pianist, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs opens today with a show by Philip Pavia. “Spring Into the Springs,” a group exhibition, can be seen at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5. A reception with live music will be held Saturday from 4 to 8.

After a hiatus of several months, the Southampton Arts Center will resume its exhibition program today with “East End Collected 2,” a show of the work of more than 30 area artists organized by Paton Miller. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Yung Jake, an artist and rapper based in Los Angeles who grew up in Bridgehampton as Jake Patterson, will perform as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s “Slithering Screens: 10 Years of New Frontier at Sundance Institute” show tomorrow at 9 p.m. in Manhattan.

Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will present its annual New Works Festival this weekend with free readings of plays and musicals in development by four writers, beginning tomorrow evening at 7 with “The Roommate” by Jen Silverman.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center continues with a concert by Mohamed Shams, an Egyptian-born pianist now studying at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The weekly Jam Session at Bay Burger in Sag Harbor is a jazz aficionado’s paradise, with a number of accomplished musicians participating in the 7-to-9 p.m. shows.

The Salon Series of concerts by a new generation of classical musicians will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. with “Fourtissimo,” a concert by four pianists who will play together on two Yamaha grands.

Guild Hall will present The Met: Live in HD’s simulcast of Richard Strauss’s one-act opera “Elektra” on Saturday at 1 p.m. First performed in Dresden in 1909, the opera focuses on Elektra, the character from Greek mythology who seeks revenge for the murder of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra, and her stepfather, Aegisthus.

Bridgehampton’s White Room Gallery will show "Earth, Wind, and Fire," an exhibition featuring work by EJ Camp, June Kaplan, and Susan Zises. The show will open Saturday and a reception is set for May 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. Don't miss “Philip Pavia: Sculpture and Drawings” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, opening next Thursday.

Stephen Antonakos, a neon pioneer from the 1960s onward, discovered several different styles within that medium from that period until his death in 2013. From outlines of simple geometric shapes to complicated overlays on painted surfaces, and late work with neon-backlit painted wood assemblages, he found in the colorful gas tubing a visual language to explore relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.

“Early on I worked from life,” Virva Hinnemo said in her Springs studio, surrounded by decidedly abstract works executed with acrylic paint on cardboard. “I still use a sketchbook and draw from life when I have a chance because I enjoy it. But even though the work has become abstract, it’s really rooted in spatial issues. I think life and the outdoors, whether the woods or the ocean, all of that seeps in.”

The Watermill Center will be the site of an open rehearsal by Accion Residente, an experimental Chilean performance company, on Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5. The group will perform “Replica (Aftershock),” which features encounters between four random people who transform their relationships through violent body language.

Volume, mass, negative space. These are the words that pop into your head at the Parrish Art Museum exhibition “Brian Gaman: Vanishing Point.” Whether sculptural objects or pigment prints, the works on view play with our perception.

Shelter Island Friends of Music will present “Gershwin and the French Muse,” a free concert by Thomas Pandolfi, a prizewinning pianist, on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. The concert will include music by Gershwin, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, and Déodat de Séverac.

The Montauk Library will host “Jazz Times Three,” a free concert by Gil Gutierrez on guitar, Bob Stern on violin, and Peter Martin Weiss on bass on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

“Every ‘failure’ is a piece of future luck. Because it brings you closer to being ready.” This bit of wisdom from Uncle Lester, an eccentric and flop-prone composer of musical theater, to his nephew, Jimmy, a budding cartoonist, in Jules Feiffer’s 1993 illustrated novel, “The Man in the Ceiling,” is the heart of the matter.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, a Southampton performing arts and educational organization, will bring to the stage “TAP: An Evening of Rhythm!” at the Southampton Cultural Center tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater on Friday, April 29, also at 7.

Classic country music will be coming to the East Hampton Library on Saturday afternoon at 1 when Gayden Wren will perform as Tennessee Walt in a solo concert featuring two dozen songs, arranged for voice and piano, by Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and other country greats.

The Museum of Art in Deland, Fla. will have an exhibition of the work of Syd Solomon opening Friday, April 29. A reception will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Guild Hall’s 78th annual Artist Members Exhibition will open Saturday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and continue through June 4.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival’s Spring Docs Day will celebrate cats, dogs, and songbirds with three films and a daylong silent auction on Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will hold a book club-style discussion tomorrow at 6 p.m. on “25 Women: Essays on Their Art,” a new book by Dave Hickey, an art critic as provocative as he is influential.

The East Hampton Library’s Tom Twomey Lecture Series will launch its 2016 season on Saturday at 5 p.m. with “Colonial Commerce,” a discussion featuring Frank Sorrentino, a researcher, and Steve Russell Boerner, an archivist, both of whom draw upon the library’s Long Island Collection.

The Southampton Cultural Center will present “Mama’s Diary,” a gospel musical written and directed by Tramar Pettaway, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The show is the prequel to “Mama’s Last Song,” which was written by Mr. Pettaway in memory of his mother and performed in Southampton in 2014. Tickets are $15.

The Art of Song’s Parlor Jazz Series will feature “The Great City,” a performance by Hilary Gardner, a singer and writer from Brooklyn, on Saturday evening at 7:30 at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Archive Building.