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.
Lots of Locals at Ashawagh
“Uncommon,” a group exhibition presented by Hampton Photo, Arts, and Framing in Bridgehampton, will open at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception on Saturday from 5:30 to 11 p.m. and continue on Sunday from 10 to 3.
The exhibition, organized by Franki Mancinelli, will feature more than 35 “unconventional” artists, among them Scott Bluedorn, Carly Haffner, Peter Ngo, Adam Baranello, and Miles Partington. The reception will include food, cocktails, and music by William Falkenberg.
The Leibers in Chelsea
“The Artist and Artisan,” an exhibition of work by Gerson and Judith Leiber, will open today at the Flomenhaft Gallery in Chelsea with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will run through Dec. 30.
The artists, whose work is on view at the Leiber Collection in Springs from Memorial Day through Labor Day, met in 1945 in Budapest, and married and sailed to the United States a year later.
Ms. Leiber’s handbags, which are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others, have been carried by first ladies to most inaugural balls since 1953.
Mr. Leiber, a noted painter and printmaker whose work is included in the collections of more than 60 museums, is also the creator of seven acres of garden “rooms” on the Springs property.
Mixed Media in Brooklyn
The A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn will present “Overlap: Life Tapestries,” a group exhibition of photographs, fabric collage, clothing, video, paintings, and drawings by eight artists, from next Thursday through Dec. 18. A reception will be held next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
The show will include three East End artists — Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, and Linda Stein — and Sascha Mallon, Michela Martello, Shari Wechsler Rubeck, Martha Wilson, and Kumi Yamashita. A conversation among Vida Sabbaghi, curator of the exhibition, Karen Keifer-Boyd, a professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State, Ms. Schmidt, and Ms. Stein will follow the reception.
Helen Harrison in London
Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, will be among the lecturers this weekend at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in connection with the exhibition “Abstract Expressionism: Expressions of Change.”
Her talk, “Inside the Abstract Expressionist Studio,” will consider the practices of a representative group of artists and how their approaches define or contradict what we now call Abstract Expressionism.
At Halsey Mckay N.Y.C.
The second installment of Ben Blatt’s “Hovering” will open at the Halsey Mckay Gallery’s New York City space at 56 Henry Street with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Blatt’s new paintings, his most abstract to date, explore the limitations of the pixelated image and the illusion of reality in the digital landscape. A previous iteration of “Hovering” took place at Halsey Mckay in East Hampton in September.
Guild Gatherings, an ongoing collaborative program designed to engage, cultivate, and connect artists, professionals, and the public on the East End, will take place tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at Guild Hall. Presented in partnership with the East Hampton Arts Council, the evening will include presentations by four artists followed by a reception.
They are Darlene Charneco, a mixed-media artist whose work draws on network theory, microbiology, virtual worlds, evolutionary theory, and educational tools; Lukas Ortiz, a poet whose interests include fiction, cultural studies, history, current affairs, and memoir; Brian Schopfer, who builds custom surfboards and develops new surfboard shapes in collaboration with some of surfing’s iconic figures, and Steve Roux, a writer and Jack Kerouac archivist who lives in East Hampton. Admission is free, and reservations have been encouraged.
The Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane and the Jam Session will present “The Music of Mali,” featuring Yacouba Sissoko and LUMA, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Sissoko is one of the world’s foremost players of the kora, a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa. He has performed as a soloist and with his band, SIYA, toured with a variety of well-known artists and recorded with Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Abdoulaye Diabate.
LUMA, featuring Dan Lauter on saxophone, Jeff Marshall on bass, Claes Brondal on drums, and the singing of Natu Camara, has brought its music rooted in the funk and groove tradition to high-profile events on the South Fork and beyond.
Tickets are $10, $5 for children and students. For those unable to make the concert, it will be recorded live for broadcast on “The Jam Session Radio Hour” on WPPB 88.3 FM.
“From Bach to Rock,” a piano duet performed by Nadia and Vladimir Zaitsev, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The husband and wife will perform music by Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Barber, Gershwin, Gottschalk, and Legrand, as well as Mr. Zaitsev’s arrangements of American rock ‘n’ roll medleys.
The two have performed at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Merkin Concert Hall, and Symphony Space in New York City, as well as at concert venues in Europe, Asia, and Israel. Mr. and Ms. Zaitsev made their Weill Recital Hall debut at Carnegie Hall as winners of the Artists International Chamber Music Award.
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.
Ms. Brown is the first female choreographer to receive a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and is the creator of more than 100 dances, six operas, and one ballet. She was a founder of the legendary Judson Dance Theater, a collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who were at the forefront of interdisciplinary art during the 1960s and 1970s.
Tickets are $10, free for members and students. Copies of the book will be available for purchase in the museum’s shop.
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.
The program will include the music of Monteverdi and Bach, operatic arias, and Broadway show tunes. Walter Klauss, the artistic director of the series, will accompany Ms. Donato on piano. Tickets are $20.
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. Laughs will be provided by Lynne Koplitz, a veteran of stand-up who has appeared on “The View,” Comedy Central, the Food Network, and elsewhere, and Pete Correale, whose many credits include “Let Me Tell Ya,” a one-hour Showtime special. Tickets are $30, and a 50-50 raffle will be part of the festivities.
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.
On Oct. 24, the artists, both East End residents who wish to remain anonymous, mounted a temporary show of textile and ceramic works at 77 Dune Road. According to an email sent by someone representing the artists, the pieces were made in tribute to the memories they had of growing up in the community during the 1970s and similar cottages that have vanished over the years, replaced by much larger houses.
In place of a long-gone door screen, a sampler of sorts was stitched to a piece of sheer white fabric. It said, “This house has survived 23 hurricanes, 14 nor’easters, two super storms, 22 blizzards. But it will not survive their plans to demolish it. Save this house and keep its gentle footprint.”
A colorful knitted scarf or runner seemed to replicate a series of windowpanes where ospreys, whales, and other indigenous creatures were represented in drawings that were attached to the knitted material. Ceramic vases and trays were embellished with shells.
The theme of the work was “the inherent beauty of a small footprint created in tandem with the natural landscape.” The artists said such Dune Road beach cottages were once plentiful and “were cherished getaways for working middle-class families, as well as the wealthy.” The occupants maintained them with care and minimal decoration. Their attention was focused on the beauty of the “outer environment rather than the house itself.”
According to the property listing, the house was built in 1956 and is 1,200 square feet with two bedrooms. Zoning allows the half-acre lot to accommodate a building of 2,700 square feet, but an architect has already devised plans for a 4,000-square-foot house with a pool and deck. Variances would be needed to realize them.
The artists said the house was maintained until the mid-1990s but has had virtually no occupants since then. The price tag is $8.9 million.
In addition, they said, the dunes in front of the house are home to many indigenous species of plants and wildlife that used to characterize Dune Road, including beach rose, various beach grasses, bayberry, pitch pine, and goldenrod. “On a recent morning, monarch butterflies were seen flying in and out of the dunes,” the email said.
On the day of the guerrilla installation, 40 invited guests viewed the show and then enjoyed a party on the beach near the house.
“We realize what we did was not particularly legal, but it was important to us to honor this beautiful house and spotlight the unsound trend of tearing down these shingle beach houses to build gigantic ones in their place,” the artists said.
Although the show was temporary, they did leave two of the pieces at the house. “We hope that our message will be heard, by realtors and potential buyers, that this house, and the land it sits on, is worth saving.”
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.
Set in West London in 1952, the play centers on Hester Collyer, who is discovered by her neighbors following a failed suicide attempt, after which the details of her affair with a former R.A.F. pilot and the breakdown of her marriage begin to emerge. Directed by Carrie Cracknell, the production stars Helen McCrory as Hester, which is considered one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.
Guild Hall’s artXchange, a free celebration of cultural diversity, will take place Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The family afternoon will include workshops led by visual and performing artists, a multilingual poetry reading, dance and music performances, and other activities aimed at fostering respect and interaction among the East End’s communities.