If the name Geoffrey Drummond is not familiar, it should be. For years, the East Hampton-based producer and director has provided armchair epicureans the vicarious thrill of watching others perform miraculous feats in the kitchen. From his early work on PBS, first with Jacques Pepin and then with Julia Child, to his latest Emmy-winning series with Eric Ripert, he has channeled his appreciation of all things culinary to introduce Americans to great chefs the world over.

While he still creates shows such as “Avec Eric” for the Cooking Channel, Mr. Drummond has trained his sights on something new in the past year: Stony Brook Southampton’s innovative Food Lab. The initiative, which aims to assist and buttress the region’s budding food entrepreneurs, will hold its first conference from June 5 to 7.

Mr. Drummond recognized potential in the growing popular interest in chefs, first seen in the 1980s. The cooking shows followed, featuring such guests as the legendary Andre Soltner of Lutece, and, in his first television appearance, Emeril Lagasse, who became the breakout star of the Food Network in the 1990s. Mr. Drummond now sees the same promise in independent food and drink production.

“We were the first on a mass level to introduce the idea of celebrity chefs,” he said, not in a “kitchen arena‚” but how they cooked at home for their family and friends. “Two generations away, the whole area of food is still exploding. When you travel somewhere, the questions are where did you eat, what did you eat, as much as what did you see.”

At the same time, more and more Americans are realizing the benefits of eating fresh foods, particularly in places like the East End, where we are so close to their growth and harvest. Mr. Drummond said it was particularly important that the Food Lab encourage efforts to make these foods available to people at all income levels, not just those in the upper brackets.

The Food Lab’s overall mission is to coordinate with its partners, who include Kathleen Masters, director of the Amagansett Food Institute, and Brian Halweil, publisher of Edible East End and related titles, on entrepreneurial and educational activities, drawing also on Mr. Drummond’s media connections. Ms. Masters will continue to provide the institute’s on-campus commercial kitchen to local entrepreneurs, while Mr. Halweil will develop online courses in the field of “edible business,” a term coined by Mr. Drummond to describe this small-scale food industry. Mr. Drummond himself will produce integrated television or web-based programs.

While many groups and individuals have supported the East End’s food producers, often through benefit “tastings,” Mr. Drummond aims for a more active promotion. “I am fascinated with how stuff is done. I want to take that fascination a notch deeper and go beyond the simple box checking off ‘had that, tasted that, stood on that line.’ ” His goal is “to grow the food community outward, to share information and wisdom.”

With so many people, just out of school or looking for a midlife career change, all hoping for a food-related career, giving them the tools to succeed and the reasons why many of them fail is important, said Mr. Drummond.

This region’s rich bounty of fresh produce and seafood has always attracted foodies. Early on, that might have meant picnics with the likes of Pierre Franey and Mr. Pepin, but in the years since, wineries, breweries, James Beard Foundation dinners, and gourmet markets have sprouted like cornstalks in July. More recently still, urban transplants of all ages have joined the community as both growers and marketers of specialty foods tied to locally available ingredients. This is a national trend, but the region’s proximity to New York City makes it especially pronounced and well supported here.

With so much homegrown activity happening, Robert Reeves, associate provost at Stony Brook Southampton, began discussions with Mr. Drummond last year. The school was already offering the old Long Island University food services building as commercial kitchen space through the Amagansett Food Institute’s South Fork Kitchens initiative, and both men thought this could be the nucleus of a much broader effort.

The institute offers its 3,000-square-foot licensed commercial kitchen in four-hour blocks of time. Before it opened, people who wanted to cook and sell food products had to count on the generosity of South Fork restaurants in sharing their kitchens, or drive to Calverton to a similar small-business incubator.

Now, businesses such as Carissa’s Breads, Gula Gula Empanadas, Madeline Picnic Co., and Miss Lady sodas have used or continue to use the space. A cafe in the kitchen serves some of the food made there as well as dishes using fresh produce from the institute’s farm members.

What next month’s conference will do, besides introduce the region to the Food Lab, is bring people together to discuss how to start and grow a food business, the ins and outs of beverage production, farm and agribusiness, seafood and meat, and the social purpose of the food business. The schedule was still in formation earlier this month when Mr. Drummond spoke to The Star.

The participants to date include Amanda Hesser and Jessica Soffer, whose conversation will serve as the keynote event; Florence Fabricant, who will moderate the business panel, and many local and regional entrepreneurs and related distributors of specialty foods, from Andy Arons of Gourmet Garage in the city and Daniel Lubetzky, who founded KIND Snacks, to Sean Barrett of Montauk’s Dock to Dish and Joe Trembly of Joe and Liza’s Ice Cream.

In addition to the talks there will be plenty of opportunities for tastings, including raw bars and Channing Daughters wines, Hampton Coffee at breakfast, nibbles from the South Fork Kitchens Cafe, a chef’s dinner, food trucks, and other sips and samples. Tickets are $259, with a limited number of discounted tickets for farmers, students, and those over 65. Inquiries can be sent to [email protected].

Sounds of Summer will return to the covered terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, kicking off tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the HooDoo Loungers, the nine-piece New Orleans party band whose repertoire incorporates traditional New Orleans jazz, brass band standards, classic R&B, and funk.

For those wishing to supplement the music, the Golden Pear cafe will offer local wines and craft beers and a Big Easy buffet featuring jerk chicken breast, blackened mahimahi, dirty rice and red quinoa salad, and cornbread, for $25 per person.

Subsequent programs will feature Contradance with Dave Harvey and Dunegrass (June 5), Mambo Loco (July 3), Jake Lear (Aug. 7), and, for the third consecutive Labor Day weekend, Bluegrass & BBQ with the Ebony Hillbillies. All programs are $10, free for members, students, and children. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs for the terrace and blankets for the lawn.

Lovers of classical music have a lot to choose from this season, starting on June 7 at 4:30 p.m. with a kick-off chamber music workshop concert at the Perlman Music Program’s Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.    

Merry Peckham, an acclaimed cellist, will direct the workshop, which will present extraordinary young instrumentalists chosen for the summer program from around the world. The offerings will include master classes, “Classical Collaborations,” instrumental and and chorus concerts at various East End locations, and conclude in mid-August with a weekend of masterworks.

The first concerts in the Classical Collaborations series will take place on June 13 at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons and June 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. In both concerts, Merry Peckham, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, Don Weilerstein, and Vivian Hornik-Weilerstein, along with Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist who with his wife, Toby Perlman, founded the summer institution, will be joined by young artists.

Among other key events is an alumni recital featuring SuJin Lee, a cellist and recent graduate of the New England Conservatory, on June 26 at 7:30 p.m. Ms. Lee has performed throughout the United States and Europe.

The program’s master teachers will present a free concert on July 3 at 7:30 p.m., and its family concert, a community favorite, will occur on July 12 at 11:30 a.m.

Pianofest, another longtime institution here, is run by the classical pianist and teacher Paul Schenly and offers concentrated study to a select group of future stars who are selected by audition. During two four-week sessions 14 students will present 14 concerts in East Hampton, Southampton, and Brook­haven, starting on June 22 with a 5:30 program at the Levitas Center for the Arts. The concerts will run through Aug. 10.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present its summer concert on June 27 at 7 p.m. at the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Mark Mangini will conduct “The Creation,” Franz Joseph Haydn’s musical representation of the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”

A work dominated by arias as well as choruses, “The Creation” contains some of the most experimental music of its time. The Greenwich Village Chamber Singers will join the choral society, creating a chorus of some 100 voices who will be accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra.

The choral society’s summer benefit will follow at the new branch of Bridgehampton’s Osteria Salina in East Hampton. Benefit tickets, which include reserved seating at the concert, start at $300.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will open its 32nd season on July 29 with “Enchanté,” a free outdoor concert of French music on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Museum. Guests can bring blankets and picnics along for the concert, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. and include compositions by Roussel, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré.

Noteworthy components of this summer’s program are a new work by Mohammed Fairouz, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the world premiere of “Rounds for Robin,” a new piece by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, inspired by Robin Williams, and Stravinsky’s “A Soldier’s Tale,” which will be narrated by Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.

The festival’s annual benefit will occur on Aug. 1 at the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton. “A Night That Will Move You” will celebrate “music that dances” with pieces by Diego Ortiz, Corelli, Leclair, Matteis, Pixinguinha, Bach, and Piazzolla. Tickets for the evening, which the festival promises will include “great music, food, wine, and good cheer,” start at $1,500.

Most of the festival’s programs will take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, which is renowned for its acoustics, but “Deep Rivers,” which will include the Fairouz work as well as music by Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin, will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Aug. 10, and the William Brian Little Concert, featuring “A Soldier’s Tale,” will take place at a benefit performance in the sculpture garden at Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton on Aug. 14.

Music for Montauk, which ran from 1991 until the death of Ruth Widder, who founded the free series with William Akin, was without a new guiding force until Lilah Gosman, a Montauk native and vocalist, and her husband, Milos Repicky, a conductor and pianist, took it over 18 months ago.

With a new board of directors, the latest incarnation took its first step on May 9 with a spring concert at the Montauk School. The organization has now announced its summer series, five concerts that will take place from Aug. 11 through Aug. 15 at several Montauk locations.

The first program will be a chamber music concert at the Montauk Lighthouse. The Aug. 12 program is billed as a garden concert, with music for strings, guitar, and voice. A tango concert featuring a piano, bass, and bandoneon trio, will take place on Aug. 13.  Venues for the latter two programs were not set by press time.

Third House, in Montauk County Park, will be the site of a circus-themed concert on Aug. 14, with classical music interpreted in a Big Top setting. The music will include Copland and Dvorak. An Aug. 15 program will also take place at Third House.

For those who like ferries, the Shelter Island Friends of Music has three concerts planned, starting on June 6 with an acclaimed violinist and continuing on July 5 with a pianist and on Sept. 6 with the Lark Quartet.

In addition, the Eroica Trio will take the stage at the John Drew Theater of Guild Hall on July 24, presenting a new work by Bruce Wolosoff of Shelter Isand. And the Montauk and Rogers Memorial Libraries also offer recitals by classical musicians.

More information on all programs is available on the organizations’ websites.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue finishes off its 30th season with “Hay Fever,” the Noel Coward comedy of English mores. Following two meatier pieces — “Time Stands Still” and “Clybourne Park” — “Hay Fever” provides a fitting bookend along with the opening comedic fluff of “Harvey,” showing that while the meat is the centerpiece, sometimes it’s the skin — crackling and crisp — that can highlight the meal.

Sir Noel loved to tell how he wrote “Hay Fever” in three days in 1925, and expressed astonishment up until his death over the play’s never-waning popularity. He wrote to one friend that “the play had no plot and there were few if any witty lines. . . . To me, the essence of good comedy writing is that perfectly ordinary phrases such as ‘Just fancy!’ should, by virtue of their context, achieve greater laughs than the most literate epigrams.”

The plot, what there is of it, follows the Blisses, a narcissistic and theatrical British family — mother, father, sister, brother — at their manor in the countryside over a weekend where each of them, unbeknownst to the others, has invited a guest of the opposite sex. When a “diplomatist,” a divorcée, a promising pugilist, and a flapper come down for the night, mayhem ensues, strange pairings occur, awkward silences abound, and there’s lots of talk about the weather. And tea.

As a writer, Sir Noel created his share of twisted characters as deep and rich as a fine Bordeaux (in particular Nicky, originally played by Coward himself in “The Vortex,” or Sir Hugo Latymer from “A Song At Twilight”), but “Hay Fever” offers up an asti spumante — light and bubbly without a lot of undertones. As Gertrude Stein might say, “There is no there there.” It’s somewhat surprising, actually, coming from a man who wrote perhaps the saddest torch song of all time, “If Love Were All.”

But this is “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” light. There are no moments of denouement, no great reveals, and no heartfelt monologues. There are, however, plenty of giggles, mostly at the shockingly bad behavior of the hosts, whose insouciant rudeness and flagrant dramatics horrify their guests. Although the Blisses never notice, of course. 

Quogue’s production is directed by a veteran H.T.C. board member, Diana Marbury, who steals each scene she’s in as the overwhelmed and under-impressed dresser-turned-maid, Clara. The Bliss family centers around the solipsistic Judith Bliss, a retired grande dame of the theater, “rusticating” and bored in her pastoral prison, played to perfection by Rosemary Cline. Judith has invited Sandy Tyrell as her boy toy for the weekend, a budding boxer portrayed by the H.T.C. newcomer Anthony Famulari with the expected blend of common courtesy and abject surprise at the weekend shenanigans.

“Didn’t she mean all she said?” Sandy inquires of Sorel Bliss, Judith’s daughter, played with appropriate petulance and prettiness by Gabriella Campagna. “No, not really,” Sorel replies. “We none of us ever mean anything,” summing up the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of a Saturday evening with the Blisses.

Also appearing in the cast are Andrew Botsford as David Bliss, the self-absorbed and bitter novelist and patriarch of the family, and Matthew Conlon as Richard Greatham, the “pet of the Foreign Office.” Both of these seasoned actors perform admirably, along with Bobby Peterson as the artistic and spoiled Simon Bliss, Jane Cortney as the visiting vamp Myra Arundel, and Amanda Griemsmann as the painfully shy flapper Jackie Coryton.

Peter-Tolin Baker’s powder-blue set offers a beautiful background for the goings-on, along with Sebastian Paczynski’s moody lighting foreshadowing the coming of a storm. Teresa LeBrun’s costumes harken to the styles of the 1920s with headdresses and long beads.

Those who choose to offer “Hay Fever” must tread a fine line between acting and over-acting; the production simply doesn’t work if everyone is over the top. There must be a clear delineation between the bohemian fireworks of the Bliss family and the bourgeois confusion of the guests. Sometimes this simply comes down to volume control. If everyone is speaking at the top of their lungs, it’s difficult to differentiate between who’s “on” and who’s flustered. There were moments in Quogue’s production where it would have been nice to turn down the guests and turn up the hosts, but those moments were few.

All in all, any shortcomings arise from the vacuousness of the upper classes, as the playwright presents them. Perhaps if he had taken one more day to write “Hay Fever,” it might have offered more than just a tickle in the throat.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is breaking out the big guns during the coming week with Paula Poundstone, the Emmy Award-winning comedian, bringing her stand-up act to the theater on Saturday evening at 8, and the world premiere of “The New Sincerity,” a comedy written by Alena Smith and directed by Bob Balaban, opening on Tuesday and running through June 14.

Ms. Poundstone has performed a number of times at Bay Street and sold out her Memorial Day weekend concert last year. Known for her spontaneous interaction with her audiences, she is a panelist on NPR’s weekly news quiz show, “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me.”

She was the first woman to win a Cable Ace Award for Best Stand-up Comedy Special and the first woman to perform stand-up at the White House Correspondents dinner. She has had numerous comedy specials and television appearances, covered the ’92 election for Jay Leno, and released her second comedy CD, “I Heart Jokes: Paula Tells Them in Boston,” in 2013.

Tickets are priced from $69 to $129 and going fast.

“The New Sincerity” focuses on Rose Spencer, a young journalist who gets involved with an Occupy-style movement and finds herself in a love triangle that makes it difficult to distinguish between sincere action and skillful self-promotion. The play emerged in part from the author’s own experience with the Occupy movement in 2011.

Ms. Smith was named one of 10 television writers-to-watch by Variety in 2014. She currently writes for the Showtime series “The Affair,” which is set on the East End, and has previously written for HBO’s “The Newsroom.” She also created the popular Twitter feed “Tween Hobo: Off the Rails,” which led to the publication of a book of the same title.

Mr. Balaban, who lives in Bridgehampton, has had a long career as an actor and director for films and television. His films have ranged from “Catch-22” to “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” his TV resumé includes “Seinfeld” and “The West Wing,” and the documentaries “Bernard and Doris” and “Georgia O’Keeffe” are among his directorial credits.

Leading the cast are Teddy Bergman (Benjamin), Peter Mark Kendall (Django), Justine Lupe (Rose), and Elvy Yost (Natasha), all of whom have extensive experience in theater, film, and television.

Performances will take place Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays through Saturdays at 8, with 2 p.m. matinees scheduled for June 3, 7, 10, and 14. Tickets range in price from $60.75 to $75.

Guild Hall will present “The Thirteen Clocks,” a theatrical piece inspired by James Thurber’s novel and adapted by Strangemen & Co., on Saturday at 7 p.m. The free performance will conclude the group’s weeklong residency at the John Drew Theater. A reception with the performers will follow in the Minikes Garden.

The group was founded in 2010 by Jason Ralph, Frank Winters, and James Ortiz, graduates of the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory for Theatre Arts and Film, “to simply honor what is truthful — one story at a time,” according to its mission statement. The troupe now has more than two dozen members, all based in New York City.

Often inspired by existing stories — their previous program, “The Woodsman,” evolved from the character in “The Wizard of Oz” — the company uses such elements as mime, puppets, choral speech, and shadow play to tell its stories.

Will Gallagher, who is adapting Thurber’s novel, discussed the group’s development while some of the actors exercised onstage. “We now have a lot of people with different mind-sets and mentalities,” he said. “When you have such amazing tools as the bodies and minds and spirits of artists like these, you’re compelled to use them. And they’re all here to help me write this story.”

Thurber’s book is a modern take on a classic fairy tale, featuring a wicked duke, his beautiful niece, and a handsome prince in disguise. “It was written for kids,” Mr. Gallagher said, “but it has a lot of potent images, a lot of wonderful phraseology that I think is fun to access.”

The process at Guild Hall involves determining what is universal about the story and expressing it physically. “This group is very physically oriented, which makes my job much easier. Right now we’re drawing a lot from the teachings of Jacques Lecoq, who had his own school in Paris and literally wrote the book on physical acting.”

To illustrate one of the group’s techniques, Mr. Gallagher picked up what he called “a neutral mask. When you put it on, it shuts off the actor’s most communicative tool. So what you’re left with is the pure physical form of whatever you’re trying to express. It’s very difficult, but it’s rewarding to find a story that can be universally understood.”

“Magical Jews: The Life and Times of Great Jewish Magicians,” a free talk by Allan Zola Kronzek about the enormous contribution of Jews to magic from the 1840s through the 1930s, will take place next Thursday at 8 p.m. at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor.

According to Mr. Kronzek, a magician and writer from Sag Harbor, many Jewish magicians became international celebrities and pioneers of prestidigitation. “Houdini is the most celebrated of these performers, but Alexander Herr­mann and David Bamberg were better magicians,” he said.

Mr. Kronzek, who performs primarily in schools, colleges, and libraries, has written four books, including “The Sorcerer’s Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter.” He will also present “Magical Jews” at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on June 1.

Remember 1975? Those alive that year would have witnessed the fall of Saigon, two assassination attempts on President Gerald R. Ford, the conviction and sentencing of three key Nixon administration officials due to Watergate, and the premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”

Musically, it was the year of singles such as 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” John Lennon’s “#9 Dream,” Barry Manilow’s “Mandy,” David Bowie’s “Fame,” and John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.”

It was into this milieu that Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album, “Born to Run,” was dropped on Aug. 25. The sensation it created was such that both Time and Newsweek featured him on the cover the same week, Oct. 27. In typical Springsteen fashion, he told Time, which called him “Rock’s New Sensation,” “I don’t understand what all of the commotion is about.”

Forty years later, there are still those who will forever think of him in terms of that album cover: full beard, long curly hair, motorcycle jacket, a guitar slung just so with an Elvis Presley button on the strap, leaning on the shoulder of a man who is revealed as Clarence Clemons, the E Street Band’s saxophone player, just on the other side of the gatefold.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the album, Eric Meola, the photographer, has led an effort to publish a commemorative poster, printed in an edition of 1,975. On heavy art stock blown up to 24 by 36 inches, the poster is an exact replica of the cover with all credits and type. The sales will benefit WhyHunger, a charity that got its start 40 years ago as well, when it was co-founded by the musician Harry Chapin and the radio disc jockey Bill Ayres as World Hunger Year. The poster, which was released last week, is available for $50 through Backstreets.com, the website and magazine devoted to all things Springsteen.

For the album, Mr. Meola, who lives in Sag Harbor, chose 25 sample prints from a two-hour photo shoot where he had taken some 700 images in June of that year. He dropped them off with John Berg, an East Hampton resident who was vice president for packaging and art design for CBS Records from 1961 to 1986. Two days later he was called in to see the mockup.

“It was beyond perfect,” Mr. Meola recalled recently. “What John had done with the layout was miraculous. He made the image so much more powerful.” But it was not Mr. Springsteen’s first choice. Mr. Meola said he was looking for a close-up shot, similar to his prior album, “The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle.” It did not take Mr. Berg too long, however, to convince him that it was the right cover for the breakthrough he was hoping to achieve.

Another unusual choice was the thin, elegant typeface, which was necessitated by Mr. Springsteen’s requirement that every person involved be credited. “The style was at odds with what is typically considered rock ’n’ roll,” Mr. Meola recalled. “Opening it was like getting an invitation to a wedding.”

He praised “the tactile sense of movement” in the design. “At first, you don’t know who Bruce is leaning on. You have to open it wide to see who’s on the back.” Although he took the photo, he credits Mr. Berg’s interpretation for providing its force. “That’s the genius of the art director, to see the space between Bruce’s head and Clarence’s hat and know to put a gatefold there.”

To Mr. Meola, who is another die-hard Springsteen fan, the two album photo shoots he did with the musician (the images he shot for “Darkness on the Edge of Town” were not used) were major highlights in a career full of them. He has since published a few collections of images from those shoots and others to help raise money for charities of significance to him and Mr. Springsteen.

Except for the cost of packaging the poster for mailing, all proceeds are going to the charity, which combines support for grassroots community efforts at battling hunger with outreach on a national level to connect the hungry to food sources in their area. Mr. Springsteen was a founding member of the group’s offshoot, Artists Against Hunger and Poverty, and has contributed both time and money as well as raising awareness of the cause.

Given how many people needed to sign off on the use of the cover for the poster, Mr. Meola said it was remarkable how quickly everything coalesced. He had worked with Chris Phillips, the editor of Backstreets, previously on a poster of an outtake photo from the “Born to Run” shoot and had been pleased with the result. It is surprising in this day and age that such an agreement could be done as a “strictly transparent, not-for-profit handshake agreement,” as he proposed to all parties. “Even the printer donated his services for free,” Mr. Meola said. “I’m just happy we all came together on this.”

“Twisted Metal” at Tripoli East

The Tripoli Gallery in East Hampton will open “Twisted Metal III,” a solo exhibition of new works by Yung Jake, a Los Angeles artist, with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will run through June 21.

A 2012 graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Yung Jake operates in the worlds of rap, technology, social media, and contemporary art.  In his works-on-metal series, motifs have been distorted, manipulated, and applied in the form of vinyl wrap to the surfaces of found scrap metal.

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The Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton is launching its summer season on two fronts. “Womanhouse,” an exhibition of work by 21 female artists, will open with a reception Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the space on Newtown Lane. The gallery is also collaborating with the Surf Lodge in Montauk, where a 90-square-foot hanging sculpture by Jen Stark, a Los Angeles artist, will go on view Sunday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Womanhouse,” organized by Eric Firestone and Michelle Tillou, takes its inspiration from Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro’s 1972 project, a feminist installation and performance space at the California Institute of Arts.

The show includes two works from Ms. Chicago’s “Dome” series and a piece of Ms. Schapiro’s “Femmage,” a conflation of textile arts and painting, as well as works by a number of contemporary artists.

Ms. Stark is known for her meticulously assembled, colorful paper constructions and large-scale painted murals. Her artwork mimics intricate patterns and colors found in nature while exploring ideas of replication and infinity.

“Womanhouse” will be on view through June 14. The Surf Lodge show will run through June 28.

James Greco at Ille

Ille Arts in Amagansett will present a solo show of new paintings by James Greco from Saturday through June 9, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Mr. Greco, who lives in Brooklyn, uses traditional oil paints, house paints, and other mixed media on panels to create what he terms “improvisational narrative abstraction.” What differentiates them from traditional abstraction is their combination of unrelated but seemingly referential elements that in fact have no connection to anything but themselves.

S.I.S Members Show

The 31st Springs Improvement Society Members Show will take over Ashawagh Hall this weekend, starting with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission of $5 will entitle guests to wine and hors d’oeuvres.

The gallery will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and from 11 to 2 on Monday. All proceeds from the exhibition will be earmarked for maintenance of the hall.

Graffiti Art at Lawrence

Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton will open its summer schedule Saturday with “Hard Edge: Work by Sen2 and Reso,” graffiti artists who work in the United States and Germany respectively.

Both artists have moved from buildings to canvas and are working toward a graffiti-abstract fusion. The graphic, hard-edged nature of the works and the bright colors reflect their Pop sensibilities.

Boaz Vaadia at Vered

Vered Gallery in East Hampton will open an exhibition of new sculptures by Boaz Vaadia, an Israeli artist, with a reception on Saturday from 9 to 11 p.m. The show will run through June 23.

Mr. Vaadia’s latest works are a series of layered slate and bluestone busts for which friends and family served as models. His larger stone figures, which are in museums and public spaces worldwide, including the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, are not based on specific individuals but instead aim to capture the universality of human experience.

New in East Hampton

Allouche Gallery, a contemporary art venue that opened in SoHo last fall, will have a branch at 46 Main Street in East Hampton for the summer. The inaugural show, “Forty Somethings,” will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

The seven artists, all of whom are between the ages of 40 and 50, are Bast, Shepard Fairey, Faile, Marco Guerra, Paul Insect, Ryan McGinness, and Dustin Yellin.

Hammond and Zacharias

The Chase Edwards Gallery in Bridgehampton will open “Everlasting Color,” an exhibition of work by Phyllis Baker Hammond and Athos Zach­arias, on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through June 20.

Ms. Hammond has a studio and sculpture garden in East Hampton, where she has lived since 1985. While she initially worked with pottery and ceramics, her more recent work consists of abstract pieces of open shapes made from flat, colorful metal sheets.

Mr. Zacharias, who was an integral part of the New York School, built his house and studio in Springs in the early 1960s. He has worked in many styles, but his most recent paintings are an eye-popping blend of Pop and Abstract Expressionism.

Three at Kramoris

An exhibition of artwork by three East End artists — Christina Schlesinger, Dinah Maxwell Smith, and Ruby Jackson — will open today at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and run through June 11. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Ms. Schlesinger’s work ranges from representation to abstraction and often resides between the two, in mixed-media works that combine painted imagery with photo transfers and scraps of clothing.

Ms. Jackson, too, moves between abstraction and figuration and works with a variety of materials. She will show several of her miniature food sculptures and paintings.

Ms. Maxwell Smith paints naturalistic environments, especially the beaches and landscapes of Southampton and the people and animals who enjoy them.

“Ode to the Sea”

Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “Water 2015: Ode to the Sea” with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will include new and classic photographs by Daniel Jones, Roberto Dutesco, Blair Seagram, Herb Friedman, Burt Glinn, Stephen Wilkes, and Ms. Booth.

A History of Montauk

The Montauk Library will launch the release of “Images of America: Montauk,” written by Robin Strong, archivist of the Montauk Library, and published by Arcadia Publishing, on Saturday at 6 p.m. with an open house that will be followed at 7:30 by a slide presentation and discussion.

An exhibition of archival images that appear in the book and represent a pictorial history of Montauk will also open Saturday and remain on view through Labor Day. Refreshments will be served at the free event, and copies of the book will be available for purchase at the library’s circulation desk.

On Chuck Close

Terrie Sultan, director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will discuss “Chuck Close Photographs” (see review on C5), the museum’s current exhibition and the first full-scale survey of the artist’s photographs, next Thursday at noon. Tickets are $10; free for members, students, and children.

At Sylvester in Amagansett

An exhibition of paintings by Tommy Lee, a Savannah College of Art and Design undergraduate, will launch a series of shows by emerging artists at Sylvester & Co. at Home in Amagansett on Saturday. A reception will take place June 13, and the show will run through July 15.

Lynda Sylvester, the store’s proprietor, discovered Mr. Lee’s work while in Savannah, where one of her three retail shops is located. The artist describes his work as “a repetition of symbols and words and color.” The dynamic paintings combine pattern, shape, and color.

Ms. Sylvester is a supporter of SCAD’s art community, and a percentage of proceeds from the show and reception will benefit the school.

Classical Realists at Grenning

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor is showing the work of four classical realist painters through June 14. Both Anthony Ackrill and Patricia Watwood take a traditional approach to painting the human figure. In a further nod to classicism, the work of both painters has mythological overtones.

John Morfis, who grew up on Long Island surrounded by mechanics, welders, and tradespeople, will show a series of trompe l’oeil paintings of single hand tools. Edward Minoff’s work focuses on nature; he will exhibit a series of wave paintings.

Mr. Ackrill, in a departure from his renderings of the human figure, is exhibiting “Shark,” a lifelike 10-foot image on a whitewashed door, which, because it was sold to the first person who saw it, will be on view only through May 26.

Artist Associations Shows

As in years past, Memorial Day weekend will include art exhibitions by members of both the Montauk Artists Association and the Southampton Artists Association.

The Montauk show will take place on the Montauk Green from tomorrow through Sunday, with painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, glass, ceramics, and fiber art among the mediums on view. The show will be open Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 6. Admission is free, and many of the artists will be on hand to discuss their work.

The Levitas Center for the Arts in the Southampton Cultural Center will host the Southampton artists’ exhibition from today through May 31, with a reception on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. The show will include photography, painting, sculpture, pastels, drawings, and three-dimensional constructions. The gallery will be open Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m., Sundays through Thursdays from noon to 4.

“Whale of a Show”

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will open “A Whale of a Show,” an exhibition of work by local artists celebrating the whale, with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Organized by Dan Rizzie and Peter Marcelle, the show will run through June 21.

Participating artists are Anna DeMauro, Jameson Ellis, April Gornik, Susan Lazarus, Edwina Lucas, Jill Musnicki, David Slater, Donald Sultan, Barbara Thomas, John Torreano, and Mr. Rizzie, who will also sign copies of the new monograph on his work.

The sixth annual Montauk Music Festival, featuring artists old and new, homegrown and hailing from as far as Texas, begins tonight with an opening party at Gurney’s Inn. From tonight until the festival’s conclusion on Sunday, Montauk will rock to more than 300 performances by some 80 acts at over 30 venues.

The festival has grown to draw many visitors to the hamlet on the weekend before summer’s unofficial start, providing its hotels, restaurants, and merchants a measurable economic boost. It promises a diversity of sounds and styles, from veteran touring artists to hopeful up-and-comers.

This year’s performers include longtime South Fork musicians like Jim Turner, the Montauk Project, Scott E. Hopson, and Jettykoon, alongside renowned artists such as Randy Jackson of the band Zebra and the Florida duo Swamp Cabbage, fronted by Walter Parks, a guitarist and vocalist who was a longtime sideman to Richie Havens. The complete schedule is at the festival’s website, montaukmusicfestival.com.

Performances are free, with the exception of tonight’s opening party. The $30 admission includes four hours of open bar, food, and live music starting at 8. Concerts on the downtown green on Saturday and Sunday, fund-raisers for charities supported by the Montauk Friends of Erin, will feature food and beverages for sale.

“It’s all about original music,” said Kenny Giustino, the festival’s founder. A longtime music fan, Mr. Giustino, who is also founder and publisher of The Montauk Sun, promoted and booked talent prior to establishing the festival. Local business owners had long discussed such a festival, he said, “but it didn’t go anywhere. Somebody approached me and said my name came up a lot in those discussions because I knew a lot of musicians. I thought it would be a great thing to do.”

Historically, the weekend prior to Memorial Day was a slow one, he said, citing hotel occupancy of around 20 percent. Mr. Giustino said that the donation of hotel rooms for the performers who travel to Montauk for the festival has imparted both geographical diversity in the lineup and, in turn, greater credibility as a significant musical event for players and listeners alike. “We have gotten to the point where the hotels are having a hard time sparing their rooms because they’re booked,” he said. “It’s all worked out, it’s a good formula — we had over 3,000 bands submit to be in it this year.”

Returning to the festival after a year away, Swamp Cabbage will be “lab-testing our new concept,” Mr. Parks said of his band, which will make its first festival appearance as a guitar-and-drums duo. With Havens, who died in 2013, Mr. Parks regularly performed at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

In Swamp Cabbage, jazz, blues, Southern rock, and soul are melded in a uniquely American sound that Mr. Parks, a native of northeast Florida, says has found an audience for on the South Fork. “I grew up in a beach area, and Montauk reminds me of home, where the music came from,” he said. “My good friends in New York City and New England kind of process music from the shoulders up. Southerners tend to process music from the hips down. I get the feeling people are more like that in the Hamptons — maybe because it’s the sort of a place people go to unwind. It seems like the folks cut loose a little bit more.”

Mr. Giustino agreed. “The local residents really love it,” he said of the festival.