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.­

Golden Eagle/Studio 144 in East Hampton will hold its first creative networking night Friday from 6 to 7:30. The program will feature people working in numerous creative disciplines, from poets to curators to filmmakers to dancers. Tomorrow’s guests will include four visual artists, Roisin Bateman, Jonathan Glynn, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, and Robert Schwartz, and Sarah Conway, a singer.

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” from the National Theatre in London will get an encore screening at Guild Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m. Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines the secrets and tensions among the members of a family who have gathered on a steamy night at their Mississippi cotton plantation to celebrate the birthday of Big Daddy.

Benedict Andrews’s production stars Colm Meaney as the patriarch, Jack 

O’Connell as Brick, his son, and Sienna Miller as Maggie, Brick’s wife. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

The Southampton Cultural Center’s 2018 Spring Performing Arts Festival, which will take place on Saturday at 5 p.m., will feature a Chinese face changer as one of its major attractions. Face changing was initially an important part of the Chinese Sichuan Opera, in which performers created fascinating transitions by repeatedly changing their painted masks.

Presented by the Asian Cultural Arts Alliance, the festival will showcase the music and dance of Korea, China, and Japan. The performance will be preceded from 3 to 5 by a free workshop for children that will include Chinese paper cutting, Indian henna painting, Asian face painting, and Chinese calligraphy and brush painting. 

A reception with Asian cuisine for performers and guests will take place from 6 to 7. Tickets for the 5 p.m. performance are $20, $10 for children and students under 21.

The Made in New York Jazz Competition, an online-based, technology-driven, global jazz contest, will celebrate its fifth anniversary at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Manhattan on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Among those slated to perform is Randy Brecker, a six-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter who lives in East Hampton with his wife, Ada Rovatti, a saxophonist. Mr. Brecker has also been a judge for Made in New York since its inception.

Other performers are to include John Patitucci, Francisco Mela, Bobby Sanabria, and Yaacov Mayman, as well as winners of this year’s competition. Tickets are $45 to $55 and available through madeinnyjazz.com.

Paul Moschetta has issued a casting call for a screenplay reading of “Do No Harm,” to be presented at the East Hampton Library on Aug. 5. The call is for four male actors, two ages 20 to 35 and two ages 40 to 65. Auditions can be arranged by emailing evpaul2@gmail.com.

Art Barge Reopens

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art on Napeague, which comprises the Art Barge and the D’Amico Studio and Archive, will open for the season on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. with receptions for two exhibitions.

“Sea, Sky, and Sculpture: An Integration of Art, Architecture, and Landscape,” will feature outdoor sculpture by Mabel D’Amico, Phyllis Hammond, Marcie Honerkamp, Ruby Jackson, Jim Posner, Michael Rosch, Arden Scott, Claire Watson, and Marianne Weil. Organized by Anne Seelbach, a Sag Harbor artist, the show will occupy the grounds of the studio and archive at 128 Shore Road on Lazy Point through Sept. 22.

The gallery at the Art Barge off Napeague Meadow Road will present “Promised Land Remembered,” an exhibition focused on the menhaden fishing industry and the significance of Promised Land, the area on Gardiner’s Bay just west of Lazy Point.

Co-organized with Rachel Gruzen, an environmental planner, the show will include photographs, documents, stories, and a selection of works on paper by Mabel D’Amico dating from the 1940s through the 1960s. It will run through June 23.

Classes will begin at the Art Barge on June 4 and continue through Sept. 28. The Artists Speak series of artists’ talks will feature Judith Hudson on June 13 and continue with Eunice Golden, Audrey Flack, and Peter Spacek on dates to be announced. Details on classes, exhibitions, and other events can be found at theartbarge.org.

Sullivan at Rental

“Love Letters,” a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Billy Sullivan, will be on view at the Rental Gallery in East Hampton from Saturday through June 17. A reception will be held on May 26 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Drawing on a large archive of personal photographs, Mr. Sullivan has long captured the people around him, including friends, artists, writers, and models, often in fleeting instants of leisure or contemplation. 

“All my pictures are about being in the moment,” he has said, although some of those moments took place years ago, as in a candid portrait of the late choreographer Trisha Brown, reworked from an image from 1982.

New at Halsey McKay

The Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton will open “Converter,” a group exhibition, and “Necromancer,” a solo show of work by Ryan Steadman, with a reception on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. The shows will continue through June 24.

“Converter” brings together the work of seven artists who incorporate specific everyday objects from outside the studio, among them discarded masonry, bones, surveillance imagery, sea glass, and potato chips.

Mr. Steadman will present a wall installation of abstractions based on books. Drawing upon a range of sources, from rare Bauhaus designs to New Wave-inspired publications, the life-size works employ a wide variety of painting techniques.

Ashawagh Retrospective

A retrospective exhibition of paintings by James Joseph DeMartis, assembled by his children Bruno, Barbara, and James, a sculptor from East Hampton, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from tomorrow through Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

DeMartis studied at the Art Students League, the California School of Fine Arts, and, from 1950 to 1954, in Florence, Italy, where he developed a style reminiscent of Rouault and the Expressionists. His work of the 1960s and 1970s included impressionistic and lighter-toned treatments of the Maine landscape, while his final period blended romantic realism with Abstract Expressionism.

Strong-Cuevas Talk

Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, who is known for her monumental sculptures in fabricated metal, cast bronze, and stainless steel, will be interviewed by Jeffrey Sussman, an author, on Saturday afternoon at 2 at the East Hampton Library. The interview will focus on her new book, “Strong-Cuevas Drawings: Ideas on Paper,” just published by Abrams.

Kurita at Ille Arts

A solo exhibition of new photographs by Koichiro Kurita will open at Ille Arts in Amagansett with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through June 18.

Originally a commercial photographer in Japan, Mr. Kurita turned to fine art photography in 1990 and moved to New York in 1993. His large black-and-white platinum prints focus on the elements of nature, of which he has said, “The smallest things, or seemingly most insignificant phenomena, have their reason and their role.” 

Hudson at Tripoli

“Under the Covers,” an exhibition of new paintings by Judith Hudson, will open at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through June 18.

Inspired by an Ovid poem about the bedroom as a refuge for intimacy, the show includes wallpapers that evoke Rorschach tests, plush rugs marked with drips and washes of vibrant color, and paintings on paper that depict anonymous sleepers all but concealed by the tossed, rumpled bedding.

Four at White Room

“Positive Space,” an exhibition of work by Cindy Press, Alicia Gitlitz, Serge Strosberg and David Mandel, and Seek One, is on view at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton through May 28. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

A former fashion designer, Ms. Press creates paintings and drawings of women inspired by images clipped from magazines. Ms. Gitlitz works in a variety of styles, including both traditional and abstract impressionism.

Mr. Strosberg and Mr. Mandel fuse the visual language of Flemish and German portraiture with fantasy jewelry and fabric design. A former street artist, Seek One combines photography and graffiti on canvases that take their cue from Andy Warhol’s processes.

Art for the Retreat

The RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton will present “Fresh Start Collective,” a juried exhibition for the benefit of the Retreat, a nonprofit agency that provides domestic violence and sexual assault services on eastern Long Island, from Saturday through June 4. A reception will take place on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show will include work by 18 artists from throughout the United States and abroad chosen by Richard Demato, the gallery’s owner, and Margaret Bowland, an artist, from more than 70 submissions.

Two at Grenning

Recent work by Stephen Bauman and Carl Bretzke will be on view at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor from Saturday through June 17, with a reception set for Saturday evening from 6 to 7:30.

A gifted draftsman, Mr. Bauman will be represented by expressive figurative drawings as well as oil paintings that reflect his classical training. Mr. Bretzke is drawn to landscapes and cities, often painted at night, whose quiet familiarity has drawn comparisons to the work of Hopper and the Ashcan School.

‘Art in Focus’

“Art in Focus,” a series of three talks co-presented by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and the Stony Brook Southampton Library, will kick off on Tuesday evening at 7 with a lecture at the library by Katy Siegel, an art historian and curator, on the late artist Jack Whitten.

Ms. Siegel’s focus will be on the abstract painter’s previously unknown sculpture, which is the subject of an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art that will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall.

Future lectures will cover Jackson Pollock’s mural for Peggy Guggenheim (June 5) and “Rodin in Asia” (June 19).

Keyes Art’s New Space

Julie Keyes, a veteran curator, art dealer, and consultant, has opened a new space at 53 the Circle in East Hampton. “Hello!” is the title of the inaugural show, and it will open with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through June 2.

On view will be work by Bert Stern, Bill Claps, Nathan Slate Joseph, Darius Yektai, Ned Smyth, April Gornik, Larry Rivers, John Chamberlain, and Willem de Kooning.