Public life these days is filled with images, some posed and others less scripted or welcome. While celebrities and starlets can refuse to participate in requests for selfies and such, those holding elected office have to consider how the public will view them if they are uncooperative. Fearing reprisals, the world of political photography has moved from very stilted setups to a more casual and natural feeling.

The International Center of Photography will open an exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday that examines how photographic images have shaped the perception of political candidates throughout recent history. Susan Carlson and Claartje van Dijk, assistant curators at I.C.P., have chosen work by photojournalists and art photographers such as Cornell Capa, Grey Villet, Elliott Erwitt, Mark Bussell, Chris Buck, Stephen Crowley, Ken Light, Mark Peterson, Antoni Muntadas, and Marshall Reese, whose still photos will be presented alongside campaign materials, posters, and videos.

Spanning some five decades, “Winning the White House: From Press Prints to Selfies” compares and contrasts the image-making of John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who ran against each other in 1960, through the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump this year.

At one time, the public held its elected officials in high regard and expected decorum in their presentation. In the age of social media, those expectations have loosened up, and now many want their representatives to be more approachable. Campaigns have to work hard now to find a balance of gravitas and folksiness. 

As images have migrated from print to phone screens, they often appear more improvised and natural. “With ‘Winning the White House,’ we examine that evolution and put it side to side with the screened selection of campaign images,” Ms. van Dijk said in a release.

An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. On Sunday, the curators and several of the participating photographers will host a gallery talk at 11 a.m. Admission is free to both events. The exhibition remains on view through Sept. 11.

Springs Invitational

The Springs Improvement Society will hold its 49th annual invitational art exhibition from tomorrow through Aug. 21 at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Nick Tarr, an East Hampton artist, organized the show, which will include several related events.

The opening reception will be held tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. Job Potter and Friends will provide music, and, at 6, the society will present Ashawagh Honors certificates to Margaret Kerr, Adrienne Mim, Alexander Russo, and Athos Zacharias in recognition of their longtime devotion to the arts.

A performance by Jeffrey Slater is set for Saturday evening at 7, to be followed at 8 by a screening of “A Guitar Maker’s Path,” a film by John Jinks. Two more short films by Mr. Jinks will be shown at 9 outside on the Ashawagh Hall green.

An evening of poetry will take place Friday, Aug. 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. On Aug. 13 from 4 to 5 p.m., Mr. Tarr will give a curator’s talk inside the hall. Music by Red Tide and Friends will follow from 6 to 9.

NYFA Studio Tour

An East End Studio Tour to benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts will take place tomorrow, starting at 9 a.m. and concluding with a seated lunch at 1 p.m. at a private residence in Bridgehampton. Christina Strassfield, Guild Hall’s museum director and chief curator, will lead the visit to the studios of Mary Ellen Bartley, Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, Toni Ross, and Claire Watson.

Tickets start at $250 and can be purchased be emailing Ellen Claycomb at [email protected]. Transportation will be provided to all studios, and the starting location will be disclosed when tickets are purchased.

Amagansett Art Show

The Amagansett Historical Association’s fifth annual art show for the benefit of the association will open Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and continue through Sept. 18. While the exhibition was previously limited to artists with a connection to Amagansett, this year the scope has been broadened to include neighboring hamlets.

Located in the Jackson Carriage House on the association’s grounds, the exhibition will include work by Scott Bluedorn, Philippe Cheng, Jennifer Cross, James DeMartis, Toby Haynes, Sue Heatley, Alice Hope, Janet Jennings, Claire Nivola, Anne Seelbach, Bastienne Schmidt, Michelle Stuart, and Christian White. 

News from Mannix Studio

“A Look Inside the Studio: The Minds of the Mentors” will open at the Mannix Studio of Art in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Sept. 2.

The work on view has been created by the studio’s mentors and instructors: Lois Bender, Linda Capello, Maeve Darcy, Sharon Gajajiva, Nancy Kiembock, Mary Laspia, Bruce Lieberman, David Martine, Lenny Stucker, and Aurelio Torres.

Portraits at Ille Arts

Ille Arts in Amagansett will open “Portrait,” an exhibition of work by Jack Ceglic, Ken Collins, Anh Duong, Joe Gaffney, Melora Griffis, and Billy Sullivan, on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will continue through Aug. 23. 

Also at Ille Arts, Lloyd Ziff, a photographer who lives in Orient Point on the North Fork, will sign copies of two just-published books, “Los Angeles — Photographs: 1967-2015” and “New York —Photographs: 1967-2015” on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5.

Vered Celebrates Larry Rivers

Vered Gallery in East Hampton is celebrating Larry Rivers with two complete suites of works, “Me and My Shadow” and “Oedipus Rex,” on view through Sept. 5.

“Me and My Shadow” consists of four large mirror images, each a sumptuous female figure and her shadow, created in 1970. The 29 oil and spray-painted works of “Oedipus Rex” were made for the 1966 Igor Stravinsky Opera-Oratorio festival at Lincoln Center.

On Aug. 7 at 11 a.m., the gallery will host a brunch for a conversation on Rivers between David Cohen, editor-publisher of “artcritical” and Catherine Gropper, an actress and playwright who studied with the artist.

Group Show in Sag

“A Hard Nut Containing the Whole Tree,” a group exhibition organized by Christopher French, an artist and critic, is on view at J&C Showspace at 30 Carroll Street in Sag Harbor through Aug. 21. Participating artists are Mary Boochever, Michael Byron, Philippe Cheng, Peter Dayton, Laurie Lambrecht, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Kevin Teare, John Torreano, and Mr. French.

Two at Lawrence Fine Art

Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton will open the last of its summer exhibitions of work by artists in their 80s and 90s on Saturday, with work by Athos Zacharias and Knox Martin.

During his long career, Mr. Zacharias has worked in many styles, ranging from abstraction through mixed-media works to Pop imagery informed by Abstract Expressionism.

As pointed out by Arthur C. Danto, a philosopher and art critic, Mr. Martin’s paintings embody a tension between the bright colors and vernacular references of Pop and a commitment to the physicality of paint.

Photos and Sculpture in Montauk

The Woodbine Collection in Montauk, across from the I.G.A., is presenting a show of work by Gary Kuehn and Luke Schumacher, both self-taught artists, through Aug. 28.

Mr. Kuehn, who lives in Montauk, is a photographer who concentrates predominantly on the natural wonder of the East End. Mr. Schumacher, who is based in Brooklyn, creates metal sculptures that are influenced by both nature and man-made objects.

Paintings at Markel

The Katherine Markel Gallery in Bridgehampton will open a show of recent works by Yolanda Sanchez today, continuing through Aug. 21. Ms. Sanchez’s works, which refer to nature but do not depict it, consist of expressionistic brushwork combined with the elegant restraint of calligraphy, which she has studied, and large areas of white canvas. 

“My work is influenced by poetry, Eastern philosophy, and the compositional structures of Chinese and Japanese classical ink painting,” she has written, but she does not try to make her art look Asian.

Photographs by von Hohenberg

Ann Madonia Antiques in Southampton will open a show of photographs by Christophe von Hohenberg tomorrow with a reception and book signing from 5 to 7:30 p.m. A second reception and signing will happen Saturday at the same time.

The exhibition will include photographs from “Blinded by the Light,” which features beach scenes of Southampton, and from “Another Planet, New York Portraits 1976-1996,” which captures the city’s club scene of that period. Mr. von Hohenberg was brought up in Southampton and Europe.

At Water Mill Bistro

A show of artwork by Clayton and Parker Calvert, brothers who have visited the East End since childhood, is on view at Bistro Été in Water Mill, formerly Robert’s restaurant, through Sept. 5. Parker is showing abstract color photographs, while Clayton is exhibiting paintings.

It seems silly in retrospect, but there was once a time when painting was so out of favor in the art world that artists who chose it as a medium were considered doomed to irrelevancy.

Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, three of the first graduates of the now venerable California Institute of the Arts in Valencia met up again in New York. Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle all committed early to bucking the trend away from painting in graduate school, where everyone else was dedicated to installation art, photography, and video. In the city and still determined to pursue their medium, they found their contemporaries devoted to conceptual art and new media. Their single-mindedness allowed them to contribute to a revolution that contributed to the definition of 1980s art.

The Parrish Art Museum will capture this moment in their development in “Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle,” which will open on Sunday. Brought together by David Pagel, an adjunct curator of the museum, the exhibition is the first to focus on the early work of these painters.

The show includes 41 paintings and works on paper from 1976 to 1987 that trace the development of each artist’s mature style. Conceptual in their own way, they each used painting to address social content and comment on contemporary culture and traditional societal norms, be it on the advent of AIDS, the creepy underbelly of suburbia, or the subtext of images found in magazines.

Mr. Pagel has said that “Bleckner, Fischl, and Salle found in paint a medium they could turn to their own purposes. How they interpreted the use of materials and the conventions of painting make their work as relevant today as when it was made.”

They came together in the city at a time when the Mudd Club was a center for arts and music. Mr. Bleckner and Julian Schnabel lived in the same loft building at White Street in TriBeCa. 

Mary Boone, a prominent New York dealer, was important in launching the careers of the artists. Mr. Bleckner, who is still represented by the dealer, was first to join the gallery in 1979. He introduced Mr. Salle to Ms. Boone in 1981, and Mr. Fischl in 1982. The dealer saw in these young artists a resurgence of painting and brought them to prominence. 

All three also shared a creative haven on the South Fork, and each has maintained a presence here in different hamlets and villages since 1985. Through their decades-long friendship, the exhibition attempts to chart how each artist may have influenced the other.

The show’s catalog includes an essay by Mr. Pagel and an interview with the three artists, who will all be on hand for a book signing on Aug. 19. The exhibition will remain on view through Oct. 16.

It is well known in print circles that Stanley William Hayter was a master of innovation in early Modernist printmaking. What is less known is that his studio, Atelier 17, inspired some 200 other artists, including Jackson Pollock, to push the limits of the various mediums in both engraved and relief techniques.

In its latest exhibition, the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will examine that legacy in the work of a core group of female artists who found inspiration there. “Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17” opens today.

Hayter founded Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927 and moved to New York in 1940 in response to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. It continued to operate until 1955. His assertion that the primary tool of engraving, the burin, was a masculine tool inspired the female artists in the studio to come up with their own interpretations. After making impressions with fabric, string, and other fibers on soft-ground etching plates, some artists then turned to other mediums, making woodblock prints from recycled floorboards and using can openers to carve up a plate, or placing fabric dipped in acid right on the plate and then running it through the press.

The show will focus on female artists whose work in prints is mostly unknown, including Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson, and Anne Ryan.

Christina Weyl, the exhibition’s curator and a co-founder and co-president of the Association of Print Scholars, will present both abstract graphic works created with unconventional means as well as sculpture and paintings.

“With the exception of Bourgeois’s prints, these artists’ graphic works have been largely absent from accounts of postwar American art, despite their having been regularly exhibited in print annuals, museums, and art galleries during the period,” according to Ms. Weyl. She added that this would be the first time their works have been shown together within the context of women’s collective innovations at Atelier 17.

There will be a reception and talk with the curator on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will remain on view through Oct. 29.

“Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy,” an exhibition of photographs, paintings, decorative arts, and memorabilia, will open tomorrow at the East Hampton Historical Society’s Clinton Academy with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will remain on view through Oct. 10. 

Inspired by a gift to the East Hampton Historical Society of nine file boxes of family papers from Laura Donnelly, the Murphys’ granddaughter and The East Hampton Star’s food writer, the exhibition will chronicle the couple’s lives in Europe at a culturally fertile time as well as in East Hampton, where they met in 1909 and later lived. 

Ms. Murphy’s parents, Frank and Adeline Wiborg, owned extensive oceanfront acreage in the Village of East Hampton, now known as Wiborg’s Beach, where they built a vast summer cottage, the Dunes, in 1912. Mr. Murphy’s family owned the Mark W. Cross leather goods company in New York City.

The couple, who were married in 1915, moved to France in 1921. Their expatriate friends were giants of 20th-century art and literature, among them Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cocteau, Picasso, MacLeish, Léger, and Fitzgerald. The Murphys have generally been acknowledged as the inspirations for Dick and Nicole Diver in Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night.”

The Murphys returned to this country and the Wiborg estate in the 1930s. After the Dunes was demolished in 1941, they moved into the dairy barn, which they called Swan Cove. In 1959, they sold Swan Cove and built a smaller house they called La Petite Hutte. Mr. Murphy died in 1964; his wife died 11 years later.

Another East Hampton couple, Mary and Lorenzo Woodhouse, are the subject of a second exhibition that will run concurrently with “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”

Ms. Woodhouse, a philanthropic summer resident who gave the community the building that is now Guild Hall, among many other gifts, and her family made a grand tour of Europe in the early 1900s. The exhibition will display photographs of their trip, which were recently developed from negatives donated to the society.

Bebe Neuwirth, a Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer, will be the host on Saturday at the Ross School Center for Well-Being in East Hampton of a multidiscipline dance performance that will benefit the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation and the Ross School Scholarship Fund. World-class dancers will perform.

Called Dancers for Good, choreography will range from modern and contemporary to musical theater and ballet. The show will begin at 6 p.m., following a 5 p.m. cocktail hour, and conclude with an after party with the host and dancers. Tickets cost $150, or $250 for a V.I.P. package, which includes preferred seating, both parties, and a gift bag. Donor-level tickets with a range of amenities depending on contributions are also available.

Eric Gunhus, an East Hampton resident who was a Broadway performer for many years, appearing in shows such as “Billy Elliot” and “The Producers,” and three others are producing the event.

Mr. Gunhus is a veteran of a program run by the Dancers Resource, an organization that supports dancers transitioning to new careers or facing hard times because of injuries, which helped him launch an event planning business. 

“This gives them something outside of the dance world,” Mr. Gunhus said in an interview.

Dancers from the Paul Taylor and the Alvin Ailey Dance Companies will perform. Among them is Desmond Richardson, an alumnus of the Alvin Ailey, whose dance on Saturday honors the late Maya Angelou.

“This program will be extraordinary because it’s diverse,” Michael Apuzzo, a co-producer of the show who is also a performer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, said. “This is an intimate celebration of dance. Most is done in small groups, and that’s always nice to pay close attention to each of these very special dancers.”

“We’re not just another cocktail-in-a-tent party with a silent auction,” Mr. Gunhus said, adding that he intends to make Dancers for Good an annual benefit here. “We are a fantastic party with food and drinks, but we’re also bringing world-renowned dancers. We thought there was a niche that needed to be filled by bringing the performing arts.” 

The year 1975 brought two films into the world whose shelf life has yet to expire: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Grey Gardens.” Classics in themselves, they have also given rise to various spinoffs and rituals.

The Parrish Art Museum, in partnership with the Maysles Documentary Center and the Hamptons International Film Festival, will honor one of those rituals next Thursday at 5 p.m., when an evening of “Grey Gardens” activities will begin with an “Edie Parade.” Audience members have been invited to dress as Big Edie or Little Edie Beale, whose eccentric lives in a 28-room East Hampton mansion were chronicled on film by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. 

Following the parade, excerpts from the film will be screened, and a panel discussion will take place with Michael Henry Adams, a Harlem historian, Jerry (The Marble Faun) Torre, the Beales’ only regular visitor; Sara Maysles, Albert’s daughter, and Ms. Meyer. 

Winston Irie, a reggae singer and fixture on the East End music scene, will perform in the museum’s “Sounds of Summer” series tomorrow at 6 p.m. Born in Guyana, he has performed or shared a bill with Lenny Kravitz, A Tribe Called Quest, and Richie Havens, and has opened for Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse, and King Yellowman, among others.

Table seating is reserved for Golden Pear Cafe patrons, so the museum has advised guests to take chairs or blankets for the outdoor show.

Tickets for each program are $10, free for members and students.

Eve Queler, founder and director of the Opera Orchestra of New York, will present an evening of operatic arias and duets by Bellini, Puccini, Verdi, and Donizetti tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.

Ms. Queler, who has conducted more than 100 operas in concert at Carnegie Hall, is recognized in this country and abroad for her groundbreaking work in introducing little-known operas to the standard repertory and for her continued dedication to emerging singers. Eglise Gutierrez, a coloratura soprano, and Marco Cammarota, a tenor, will join Ms. Queler.

Tickets are priced from $75 and can be purchased at the LongHouse website. 

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will launch its 2016 Comedy Club on Monday at 8 p.m. with a performance by Richard Lewis, the comedian who has fashioned a stellar career by mining his own neuroses. Mr. Lewis was recognized by Comedy Central as one of the top 50 stand-up comedians of all time and played the recurring role of one of Larry David’s closest friends on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Only a handful of $85 tickets remained at press time.

Subsequent programs will feature Angela LeGreca and Julie Halston, Aug. 15; Jim Breuer, Aug. 22; Bobby Collins, Aug. 29, and Paula Poundstone, Sept. 22. Ticket prices vary, and shows tend to sell out in advance.

Magdalene Brandeis, associate director of the Stony Brook Southampton M.F.A. in Film program offered in association with Killer Films, attended a special March on Washington Film Festival awards ceremony at the White House on July 20. Ms. Brandeis had served as a juror in the festival’s inaugural Students and Emerging Filmmaker Competition this year.