Gil Gutierrez, a guitar virtuoso, will perform a program of jazz, Latin, and cinema music on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church’s Session House. 

Mr. Gutierrez has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Mexican Embassy Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., and as a soloist with the New York Pops and the Minnesota and Florida symphonies. Bob Stern on violin, Peter Martin Weiss on bass, and Jane Hastay on piano will accompany him.

Tickets are $25 and available at artofsong.org. OLA of Eastern Long Island is a co-sponsor.

S.I.S. Members Show

The Springs Improvement Society’s annual members show has been a Memorial Day weekend fixture at Ashawagh Hall for 34 years. This year’s will open with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. and continue on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Monday from 11 to 2.

The show will include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs by more than 100 artists. Admission to the opening reception is $5, which includes wine and hors d’oeuvres. All proceeds will benefit Ashawagh Hall.

Sublime and Feminine

“The Sublime Feminine,” an exhibition of photographs by Maryam Eisler, will open at Harper’s Books in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through June 20.

Ms. Eisler has long been fascinated with the concept of the “sublime feminine,” which has found expression in such iconic portrayals as Aphrodite, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Jezebel. She has pursued that interest in New Mexico, Provence, and the Catskills by photographing the female form against the grandeur of nature.

A book signing for Ms.Eisler’s “Voices East London” will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Innovators at Firestone

The Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton will present “Different Shapes,” an exhibition of painting and sculpture from the 1960s and 1970s, from Saturday through July 24. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8.

The show focuses on 14 artists who reacted to hierarchal ideas about modernism and art with such strategies as disrupting the frame, shaping canvases, and in general blurring the boundaries among mediums. The contributors include Martha Edelheit, Sam Gilliam, Sidney Geist, Joe Overstreet, Philip Pavia, Miriam Schapiro, and Sylvia Stone.

Velocity at Nightingale

“Velocity Games,” a show of work by Margaret Garrett and Steven Kinder, will open at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through June 26.

An artist and dancer who left home at 16 to join the Pennsylvania Ballet, Ms. Garrett finds in the movement of line and color something spiritually akin to dance. For more than four decades, Mr. Kinder’s drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations have been fueled by his interest in energy and natural forces.

Magical Realism at Lehr

Janet Lehr Fine Arts in East Hampton will open “Magical Realism,” an exhibition of work by Shimon Okshteyn, with a reception on Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. The show will run through June 13.

Mr. Okshteyn works in a variety of formats, including drawing, sculpture, installations, and mixed media. His work combines meticulous craftsmanship, social commentary, and a sense of humor.

Into the Past at Roman 

“Pastime/Time Passed,” a show of work by Lizzie Gill and Ciara Rafferty, will be on view at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton from Saturday through July 1. A reception will take place on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Gill’s works combine oil and mixed media to create images of stylized people and activities, often lifted from magazines of the past. Ms. Rafferty is drawn to pristine but unpeopled hotels and motels from 1950s and 1960s Palm Springs that now seem like sad relics of lost optimism.

In the Berkshires

Three East End sculptors have been chosen for “Beautiful Strangers: Artists Discover the Garden,” a group show organized by James Salomon at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Mass. The exhibition will open Saturday and run through Oct. 8.

Alice Aycock’s large-scale aluminum sculpture is from her “Twister” series, which evolved from her “Park Avenue Paper Chase” project of 2014. “Found Lines,” Toni Ross’s project, uses gold leaf to accentuate the graphic quality and texture of trees. Ned Smyth’s “Male Torso” is a 14-foot sculpture derived from a four-inch piece of glacial till.

The show will also include work by Wendell Castle, E.V. Day, Fitzhugh Karol, Mark Mennin, Michele Oka Doner, Stephen Talasnik, and Rob Wynne.

Whale of a Show

“Anchor: A Whale of a Show,” a Memorial Day weekend tradition, will open tomorrow at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum and continue through June 17. A reception will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

Organized by Dan Rizzie and Susan Lazarus-Reiman, the exhibition will include works by Arlene Alda, Star Black, Michael A. Butler, Paul Davis, Dave-0, Pat Field, Eric Fischl, Mel Kendrick, Ms. Lazarus-Reiman, Christine Moro, Lindsay Morris, Jodi Panas, Joe Pintauro, Mr. Rizzie, Donald Sultan, Linda Sylvester, John Torreano, and Bob Weinstein.

Painters Past and Present

“Long Island Painters: A Survey — 1880s to the Present” will open today at MM Fine Art in Southampton and continue through June 10. The show ranges from work by the East End pioneers William Merritt Chase and Thomas Moran through such mid-20th-century artists as Willem de Kooning and Grace Hartigan to contemporaries, among them Dan Rizzie and John Torreano.

A panel discussion on “The Tyranny of Eclecticism” will take place on June 9 at 2 p.m.

Four at Kramoris

“Ready, Set, Go” at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will showcase paintings by Christopher Engel, Adriana Barone, and Joyce Brian, and wooden constructions by George Wazenegger, from today through June 14. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Whimsy at CMEE

The Elaine Benson Gallery at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton is presenting “Whimsy,” a group exhibition, through July 3. The first of four shows to be organized this summer by Kimberly Goff, it includes works by Scott Bluedorn, Darlene Charneco, Ms. Goff, Patricia Hadley, Ruby Jackson, Eleanora Kupencow, and Mike Stanko.

Boo-Hooray Is Back

Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, the seasonal Montauk outpost of the SoHo exhibition space and archive, will show “I Know What You Did Last Summer” from Saturday through June 8, with a reception set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

A look back at last summer’s season, the show will include work by Jane Dickson, Jody Uttal, Jonas Mekas, Baron von Fancy, and Pat McCarthy.

Beach Photos

“Foot on the Sand,” an exhibition of photographs by Francis Cristine Cardoso, a Brazilian artist, will open at the Surf Lodge Gallery in Montauk with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through June 8. The show will feature images captured on beaches in Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, and Montauk.

New Gallery in Sag

The Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor has opened the Ezra Gallery, a new exhibition space at 36 West Water Street. The inaugural show of work by Joseph Eschenberg, Hendel Futerfas, Susan Schrott, and Haim Mizrahi will open with a reception on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. and continue through June 30. 

Artists Associations

The Montauk Artists Association will hold its 10th annual Memorial Day weekend show on the downtown Montauk green starting tomorrow from noon until 6 p.m. and continuing on Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 6. Artists from Long Island and across the country will be on hand with their paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photographs, glass, ceramics, woodwork, and mixed-media creations.

Not to be outdone, the Southampton Artists Association is showing paintings, sculpture, drawings, and photographs at the Southampton Cultural Center through June 2. Receptions will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday and on June 2. The gallery will be open Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6, Sundays through Thursdays from noon to 4.

There seems to be an element of sound in almost everything at Guild Hall this summer, including the artwork. With talks, films, theater, dance, and music, the multitasking institution will offer plenty to keep us busy through Labor Day.

The crowd-pleasing events, which will likely sell out, include the return of David Sedaris; Questlove’s Midsummer Night Conversations on Creativity; a taping of Alec Baldwin’s podcast “Here’s the Thing” with the “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” announcer Steve Higgins; “Let’s Misbehave: The Music and Life of Cole Porter”; an evening devoted to Jerome Robbins with the New York City Ballet; stand-up comedy with Sandra Bernhard and Hasan Minhaj, and a reading of “Betrayal” by Harold Pinter with Mercedes Ruehl and Harris Yulin. 

The speakers in Florence Fabricant’s “Stirring the Pot” series of talks with culinary celebrities will include Masaharu Morimoto, David Bouley, Carla Hall, and Sam Sifton.

An exhibition by Laurie Anderson will take over the full museum beginning June 2 and will be divided into virtual reality, video performance, and drawing sections. Trained as a violinist and sculptor, she has been working in the fields of visual and performance art for decades. Her stage shows incorporate storytelling, sound, and music. Following her exhibition will be a show devoted to Ellsworth Kelly’s time in the Hamptons, where he spent summers in 1960 and ’61 and 1968 and ’69. The exhibition opens Aug. 11.

New this year is Guitar Masters, a festival scheduled for July 5 through July 7 that will feature live concerts, talks, and film screenings with an emphasis on the guitar. The performers will include Andy Summers of the Police and Richard Thompson, as well as the international musicians David Broza, Badi Assad, and Stormu Takeishi. 

Choir!Choir!Choir! is a more participatory event, a group sing-along founded by Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman (a.k.a. DaBu) in 2011. Guests are given a lyric sheet, taught the arrangement, and a video is recorded of the result. Well-known singers have been known to show up to add their voices to the mix. Previous participants have been David Byrne, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, and Rufus Wainwright. 

Sophie B. Hawkins and Trevor Hall will be guests of the G.E. Smith Portraits series in July. Bela Fleck will perform a solo banjo concert in August. Also in August, three bands — Big Karma, the Sectionals, and Earthreal — hope to raise awareness of gun safety with Young Musicians Unite for Gun Sanity. Proceeds from the concert will benefit gun law reform efforts.

Guild Hall has taken some of its talks and interviews and grouped them as the Summer of Stories series. In addition to Mr. Sedaris’s and Mr. Baldwin’s events, there will be discussions with Philippe Petit known for walking a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Samite, a flutist from Uganda, and more. It has partnered with the Montauk Observatory for two space-themed programs in June with Randolph James Bresnik, a NASA astronaut, and Rebecca M. Bresnik, the associate chief counsel for NASA. Mr. Bresnik will discuss space exploration with Ms. Bresnik and in a follow-up program for adults and children will describe his life as an astronaut.

The Hamptons Institute will return in August with discussions on the opioid crisis, the prevalence of plastics in our daily lives, and the next steps for the “Me Too” movement. In July, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard, will discuss “Equality Matters in the Hamptons: Burying Our Heads in the Sand?” The free conversation will be moderated by Ken Miller, a writer, financier, and political activist. It is part of the Thinking Forward Lecture Series presented by Guild Hall and the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. 

There will be one-night staged readings of “Daughters of the Sexual Revolution” with Timothy Busfield and Melissa Gilbert, “Locura” by Michael Marrero, and “Three,” a comedy by Eugene Pack. In addition, a fully staged production of “The Summit,” written and directed by Isla Hansen, Tucker Marder, and Christian Scheider, will have a run from Aug. 31 to Sept. 9. An experimental performance, it describes a world where the global elite plan to leave their bodies for a virtual reality beyond them. 

Guild Hall’s comedy schedule is rounded out by Black Thought’s “Delirious,” a presentation of new comedic talent by the rapper and M.C. of the hip-hop group the Roots. Tig Notaro will close out the series in August.

During the summer, Guild Hall will also continue its popular Game Night series on the last Monday of each month. Hosted by Noah Salaway, the evening will feature modern tabletop games involving creativity, problem solving, social skill, and dexterity — and no screens!

Full descriptions, pricing, ticket purchasing, and other information on these and other events are available at Guild Hall’s new website.

The LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold its second annual Salon on the Lawn on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., with a rain date set for Monday. Organized by the Junior Council, this year’s event is a collaboration with Tripoli Patterson of the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, who will present works by Benjamin Keating, Quentin Curry, and Aakash Nihalani.

The salon will feature live music by Hot Club of Montauk as well as drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are $75, $50 for members, but guests who sign up for a new membership at any level will be admitted free.

Speaking of the complicated relationships among Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and Marilyn Monroe, Jack Canfora said that “even by Hollywood standards, it was weird.” He should know. He was speaking by phone from New York City during rehearsals for his play “Fellow Travelers,” in previews at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor starting Tuesday, which will have its world premiere when it opens on June 2.

“Fellow Travelers” opens in 1951, when Kazan and Miller, who were close friends, traveled from New York City to Los Angeles to meet with Harry Cohn, the head of production at Columbia Pictures.

Miller was an esteemed playwright hoping to gain a foothold in Hollywood and Kazan was one of the world’s leading directors, whose Broadway credits already included Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman.” Kazan introduced Miller to Monroe during that trip. At the time she and Kazan, who was married, were having an affair. 

A lot happened during the next five years. In 1952, Kazan was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee and identified eight former members of the Group Theatre as Communists. That testimony cost him Miller’s friendship.

On June 21, 1956, Miller appeared before the committee and testified about his own political affiliations, but refused to name names of other alleged Communists. Five days after that hearing, he and Monroe were married.

“Fellow Travelers” spans 1951 to 1963 and covers “all the greatest hits,” according to Mr. Canfora — the hearings, Kazan and Monroe’s affair, Miller and Monroe’s marriage, the 1961 film “The Misfits,” written by Miller and starring Monroe, the breakup of their marriage, and her suicide.

“While Miller and Kazan worked together one more time after Kazan testified, many years later, their relationship was never the same,” said Scott Schwartz, the artistic director of Bay Street. Miller’s 1953 “The Crucible” not only dramatized the Salem witch trials but was also an attack on McCarthyism. “On the Waterfront,” which Kazan directed in 1954, was considered by many a defense of his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

“Fellow Travelers” deals “a lot with how some of their great works were created,” said Mr. Schwartz. “A lot of the play is about this conversation that Miller and Kazan stopped being able to have as friends but continued to have through their work.”

Mr. Schwartz cited as one strength of the play its refusal to take sides between Miller and Kazan. 

“I wanted to let the facts and the actions speak for themselves,” Mr. Canfora said. “I don’t think it’s my job as a playwright to be prescriptive or moralistic. I just want to portray the people as authentically as I can.”

The play is structured chronologically. “There was so much that was happening during those 12 years, you have to pick and choose and you have to do it in a way that coheres logically and narratively,” Mr. Canfora said. “It was the first play I wrote that was based on real people. As a playwright, it’s sort of daunting inherently to try to write dialogue for Arthur Miller. At a certain point you just have to put that aside and try your best.”

The playwright has been actively involved in rehearsals. “The cast and the director are really bringing the play to life and, frankly, elevating it, as far as I’m concerned. So I feel very lucky.”

The play is directed by Michael Wilson, whose Broadway work has included Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man,” and “Enchanted April.” Among his Off Broadway credits are Miller’s “Incident at Vichy” and Lanford Wilson’s “Talley’s Folly.”

The five-character play features Wayne Alan Wilcox as Miller, Vince Nappo as Kazan, Rachel Spencer Hewitt as Monroe, Mark Blum as Cohn, and Jeffrey Bean in a number of supporting roles. All have extensive theater, film, and television credits.

Mr. Canfora’s previous plays include “Place Setting,” which The Newark Star-Ledger nominated for best play of 2007-8, and “Jericho,” “a lovely, humorous work with laughs,” according to Anita Gates of The New York Times.

Performances of “Fellow Travelers” will take place Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 p.m., with matinees on June 6, 10, 13, and 17. The play will run through June 17. Tickets range from $40 to $125.

Bay Street’s other Mainstage productions are Peter Morgan’s “Frost/Nixon” (June 26 to July 22), Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” (July 31 to Aug. 26), and a special six-day run of Steven Fales’s “Confessions of a Mormon Boy” (July 17 to 22).

The Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Stars piano series will feature a performance by Do-Hyun Kim on Saturday evening at 7. A first-prize winner at the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Kim will make his recital debuts in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and in Washington, D.C., at the Kennedy Center during the 2018-19 season.

Mr. Kim’s many awards include the Korean Concert Society Prize, the Embassy Series Prize for a concert in Washington, D.C., the Paul Fish Memorial Prize, and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize at Rockefeller University for a concert in New York City.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and free for students under 21.

The Bach Before and Beyond chamber music series at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present a concert by Liu Fang, who has been called the “empress of pipa” by the Canadian magazine L’actualité, on Sunday at 3 p.m. She will perform works of the Tang Dynasty characterized by spectacular finger dexterity and virtuosi programmatic effects, according to Walter Klauss, artistic director of the series.

The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body. Ms. Fang has performed throughout the world, including solo recitals of Chinese traditional and classical music as well as contemporary music with orchestras, string quartets, and ensembles. 

Tickets are $20 at the door or at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor.

Darcey, a singer-songwriter, and Mark Marino, a jazz guitarist, will perform the duets of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. Both Darcey and Mr. Marino have more than 40 years’ experience performing in and around New York City.

Tickets are $20 at the door, $10 for students, and proceeds will benefit the Pierson High School scholarship fund and other local charities. Doors will open at 7:30 for wine and refreshments.

Mambo Loco will give a concert at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. Formed in 2002 and a fixture on the Long Island music scene ever since, the band is known for its performance of music of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican origin. It consists of Larry Belford, lead vocals and percussion, Cristian Rivera, vocals, conga, and percussion, Bill Smith, piano and vocals, and Wayne Burgess, bass and vocals.

Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens, and $10 for artists.

The “Florilegium” exhibition of Robert Dash’s flower paintings at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack has only five works in it. That is plenty. These are paintings that are hard to love, but impossible to dismiss. 

First, there is the size. Most sport dimensions in the five-to-six-feet range. Then there are the colors and compositions. Mr. Dash’s indiscriminate use of Fauvist hues and idiosyncratic forms challenges traditional assumptions of the handling of still-life or floral subjects.

This kind of abstraction, rooted in recognizable forms but obviously the pure invention of its maker, feels nostalgic and referential to early-20th-century modernism. Comparisons to Arthur Dove and even Georgia O’Keeffe, whom the artist knew, are not stretches. There is also something in the coloring and somber backgrounds that melds late Willem de Kooning and Fairfield Porter into the mix.

And yet these constructions are so obviously his own. As with the landscapes Mr. Dash saw around him, the Sagaponack street scenes, and vistas from his garden, these images are distillations of shape and broad interpretations of color. He treats them like equestrian portraiture or figure studies, with the flowers’ reproductive organs often on stud-like display.

Although all were painted in the same year, there are different moods and treatments. Some, like “Untitled (4)” and “Untitled (6),” have strong borders and outlines; others, like a coral-colored poppy-like flower in oil on paper that looks like it was conceived in the moonlight, are more loosely defined.

One of his other oil-on-paper paintings is reminiscent of a slice of zucchini resting on a pink aspic. At the base, blue squares give it a gear-like appearance. It is difficult to ascertain what is being presented, but it is fresh in an experimental, devil-may-care way.

The moodiest (and spookiest) of this series is a chocolate brown sunflower-esque form on a gray-brown ground. Highlighted a bit at the petal tips with white, it also seems to have some pollen-like effusion coming from its center. Far from a cheery nosegay, this looks like it came straight from the Evil Queen’s garden, capable of poisoning a maiden, a chevalier, and all seven dwarves.

This challenging of expectations and upheaval of convention with some dark humor thrown in make this a fun group to see. Dark and mysterious, this is what emerges when the boys get a crack at the gendered norms of flower painting.

Florilegium is Latin and means literally a gathering of flowers, but in idiomatic terms a volume of writings. Given Mr. Dash’s proclivities for both, it is a very satisfying title for this series of flowers that are not quite that.

In an essay for a gallery show of the paintings presented soon after they were created, Brooks Adams called them “fleurs fatales and floral love deaths” and “melancholic and psychedelic.” Yes and yes. He argued for a comparison to Mark Rothko in Mr. Dash’s framing devices. Maybe. I would have to see more.

In any event, with Madoo open and the barn restored and its walls an inviting and appealing place to view art, it is worth a visit to take them in and draw your own conclusions. They are on view through June 10.­