“Travesties,” a Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard, will begin performances on Tuesday at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play, directed by Gregory Boyd, is a partly imagined and partly historical realization of prominent figures living in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I.

The characters include James Joyce, when he was writing “Ulysses,” Tristan Tzara, as the Dadaist movement picked up speed, and Lenin, before the Russian Revolution, who meet during an amateur production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Through mayhem and mischief, Mr. Stoppard examines how art and revolution intersect. The cast features Michael Benz, Carson Elrod, Richard Kind, and Andrew Weems.

“Travesties” will run through July 20. Tickets range from $53.75 to $75 and are on sale at the box office and through baystreet.org. Some performances will have special pricing, such as “pay what you can” tickets for Tuesday, available at the box office after 2 p.m. that day, $30 tickets for attendees under 30, and free Sunday matinees for high school and college students.

On July 1, the theater’s “Talkback Tuesday” will return. After the performance, audience members will be welcome to attend a conversation with Scott Schwartz, the theater’s new artistic director, and cast members.

Sandra Bernhard will bring her live show to Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater tomorrow at 8 p.m. The evening blends theater, rock ’n’ roll, and stand-up comedy with a soupcon of burlesque and cabaret.

Ms. Bernhard first gained attention with her stand-up comedy in the late 1970s. She went on to star in Martin Scorsese’s film “King of Comedy” with Robert De Niro, winning the National Society of Film Critics’ award as best supporting actress. Since then she has been a fixture on and off Broadway, in movies and on television, and has written three books and recorded 15 albums. Her band, the Flawless Zircons, will accompany her.

Tickets cost $75 for prime orchestra, $70 for members, $65 for orchestra, $63 for members, and $45 for balcony, $43 for members. Free student rush tickets are available.

East End filmmakers have been invited to submit short surf movies to be considered for “Atlantic Vibrations, Vol. 2,” an outdoor screening on the terrace at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The deadline for submissions is July 23; the program will take place Aug. 22. Filmmakers can send links to their videos and brief synopses to [email protected].

The next alumni concerts of the Perlman Music Program will take place tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Tomorrow’s program will consist of solo repertoires. Saturday’s chamber music concert will feature Sean Lee and Areta Zhulla, violins; Jocelin Pan, viola; Talya Buckbinder, cello, and Peter Dugan, piano. The program will include works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Schumann.

Tickets to each concert are $20 and can be purchased through perlmanmusicprogram.org or at the door. The concerts are free for ages 18 and under.

 “1 Way Up,” a documentary about two London teenagers struggling to escape their gang-torn neighborhood by competing in a BMX bike competition, will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday at 3:30 p.m., in advance of its theatrical premiere in London.

Directed by Amy Mathieson, the film is a production of Shine Global, a nonprofit film production company in New York dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of children. Tickets to the benefit screening, at $25, $10 for children, are available at the Guild Hall box office.

Maria Bacardi, a Cuban-born singer who lives in East Hampton, will perform “Romance and Rosés” at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack next Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of the winery’s Twilight Thursdays series. David Oquendo will accompany her on guitar.

Ms. Bacardi’s debut album, “Deseo,” released last year, is a collection of traditional ballads of love and longing performed in the Cuban bolero style and sung in Spanish, French, and English. The performance is free. Glasses and bottles of wine and cheese and charcuterie plates will be available.

Akiko Kobayashi, a violinist, and Eric Siepkes, a pianist, will give a free concert of works by Beethoven and DeFalla at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The duo met at an international music festival in 2009 and have been performing together ever since.

Ms. Kobayashi has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra, the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Jamaica Symphony. Mr. Siepkes has given recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Baruch Center of Performing Arts in New York, and the Chicago Cultural Center.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is joining forces with Guild Hall on Sunday to celebrate the life and music of Leonard Bernstein, with a 6 p.m. screening there of Susan Lacy’s “Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note” and a related panel discussion. On June 28, the choral society will present “Bernstein! From Bible to Broadway” at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

“Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note,” an award-winning 1998 documentary, was produced for the PBS series American Masters. Ms. Lacy will participate in the panel discussion with two of the maestro’s children, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein Simmons, and Cornelia Foss, an artist whose late husband was Lukas Foss, the composer. Adam Green, the theater critic of Vogue, whose father, Adolph Green, performed in Bernstein’s musical theater pieces, will moderate the discussion, which will follow the two-hour film.

Ms. Lacy was the creator and executive producer of American Masters from its inception in 1986 until last September, when she left PBS to produce and direct documentary films for HBO. Speaking from her Sag Harbor home the day after a red-eye flight from Los Angeles, she said, “The reason I chose to leave the series I created and love is twofold. When I started the series I didn’t realize I was going to become a filmmaker, but over the course of almost 30 years, I did. I loved every part of working on the series, but I really loved making my own films. So when I was given the opportunity to just do that after 35 years at PBS, I couldn’t turn it down. There was also a lot of appeal to being able to make films without having to raise the money for them.”

Ms. Lacy majored in American studies at the University of Virginia, where she received a B.A., and at George Washington University, where she earned a master’s. “I thought I was going to be either a journalist or a scholar,” she said, “but I found my way to Channel 13.” There, she started working with Jack Venza, who created the Great Performances series and became her mentor. “I learned a lot working for a person whose mantra was, if we can’t make the film as excellent as the artist whose work we’re profiling, then we shouldn’t be in this business.”

Mr. Venza set a high standard for television programs on drama, dance, and music. One day Ms. Lacy realized, quite suddenly, that there were no programs about artists.

Because her particular interest was American cultural history, she decided to focus on American artists. “Nobody thought this was a good idea,” she recalled. “I had to convince people that stories about people who create are amazing stories.”

She insisted that the series run in prime time, and recommended that it debut during the summer, when, in the early days of cable, network programming consisted mostly of reruns. “Because there was nothing else on, and the programs were good, it gave the critics something to write about.” After the first season, PBS decided to try a second. It was only after 10 years that Ms. Lacy began to relax and think the series might last. It has; after 28 years, 215 films, and 27 Emmy Awards, it is still going strong.

Ms. Lacy’s parents were both musicians, and she was raised in a house full of music. “Leonard Bernstein was a hero. I used to get teased that I started American Masters so I could make a film about Lenny, and there’s a bit of truth to that.” Early on, she approached the Bernstein children, who agreed to participate. “The three children were not involved in the making of the film, but they are a big part of why it is so successful. Their honesty about their father, and their insights, really separate the film from anything else that has been done about him.” Ms. Lacy explained that one of the fundamental principles of American Masters was that the films had to be independent from editorial control by either the subject or the families.

In an email this week, Bernstein’s older daughter, Jamie, a filmmaker, concert narrator, and broadcaster, discussed the family’s initial concerns. “I remember how anxious my siblings and I were at the prospect of this in-depth, rather intimate film coming into the world so relatively soon after losing our father,” she said. “We had barely had time to process the loss ourselves . . . and so Alexander, Nina, and I felt a keen trepidation as we sat down, each in turn, to be interviewed by Susan.”

“Susan’s fierce intelligence and compassion reassured us throughout that difficult process that she was doing this for love. We could have felt manipulated or exploited by such an experience, but we never did, and the resulting film glows with the authenticity of Susan’s own heart.”

One of the first things Ms. Lacy did was visit the Library of Congress, home of the Leonard Bernstein Collection. In a room “as big as my house in Sag Harbor,” there were 50,000 photographs, the white suit Bernstein wore in Israel, pencils he used to write scores, and all his letters and diaries.

Ms. Lacy didn’t have a title for the film until she came across this text in an essay written by Bernstein: “In the beginning was the note, and the note was with God, and whosoever can reach for that note, reach high and bring it back to us to our earthly ears, he is a composer, and to the extent of his reach, partakes of the divine.”

“Lenny saw composing as the most important thing one could do on this planet,” Ms. Lacy said, “and I think he was a little disappointed that his own ‘serious’ work was not taken as seriously as he hoped during his lifetime. You look at that film and realize he saw himself in relation to Mahler as Salieri did to Mozart.”

Ms. Lacy has made films about living artists, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Lena Horne among them, as well as subjects no longer alive. “The advantage of working with people who are alive is that they can become a big part of telling the story,” she said. “I was happy that there were so many of Lenny’s letters and diaries that his ‘voice’ was in the film. And that voice belongs to Harris Yulin, a wonderful actor who has a home in Bridgehampton. I thought Harris added so much to the film, because it never felt like a narration.”

Ms. Lacy stays in touch with Bernstein’s children. Alexander runs the Bernstein Family Foundation and is founding chairman of the Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning. Ms. Simmons worked with the Library of Congress to make the Bernstein Archives digitally available to the public. The fruits of that collaboration can be seen at the library’s American Memory website. Jamie is currently working on a film about El Sistema, a Venezuelan youth orchestra program that uses music to bring social transformation to disadvantaged children around the world.

At first, Ms. Lacy remembered, she submitted individual shows for Emmy consideration, but in 1999 she began to submit the series. It has been nominated every year since. It won nine times, three of which were for shows she directed: “Judy Garland: By Myself,” “Inventing David Geffen,” and “Reaching for the Note.” The series has also won 13 Peabody awards.

“I’ve just taken a turn in my life to focus on producing, directing, and writing films, and I’m loving that,” she said. “I miss working with the variety of subjects I was working with at American Masters, but I’m really proud of the legacy I created there, and I hope it continues.”

King at Duck Creek

An exhibition of large-scale outdoor aluminum sculptures by William King will be held at Duck Creek Farm in Springs from Sunday through Aug. 4. An opening reception for the artist, a longtime resident of East Hampton, will take place Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Founded in 1795, Duck Creek Farm was originally owned by three generations of the Edwards family. John Little, an East Hampton artist, purchased seven and a half acres of the property in 1948 and moved a 19th-century barn there. The Town of East Hampton bought the property in 2006.

Jess Frost, an art consultant from East Hampton, organized the exhibition in collaboration with the John Little Society, which was founded by Loring Bolger, Pamela Bicket, Ira Barocas, and Zachary Cohen to bring contemporary art to East Hampton.

Two at Drawing Room

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present concurrent solo exhibitions by Antonio Asis and Jennifer Bartlett from tomorrow through July 28. Mr. Asis was a key figure in the development of Op and Kinetic art. His work delves into chromatic phenomena and plasticity in painting and sculpture. The exhibition will include a rare selection of chromatic paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibition of Ms. Bartlett’s work focuses on her roots in system-based geometric imagery and her integration of abstract and figurative idioms. Work in the exhibition ranges in time from 1970 to the present.

Schmidt at Ille Arts

“Topography of Quiet,” an exhibition of work by Bastienne Schmidt, will be on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett from tomorrow through July 8. An opening reception with the artist, who lives in Bridgehampton, will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition accompanies the recent publication of her book of the same title, which explores through her paintings, drawings, and photography the subtle interaction between nature and imagination and the sensation and memory of travel. Ms. Schmidt will sign copies of her book at the reception.

Musnicki Installation

The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt will present a one-night multimedia art installation of Jill Musnicki’s “What Comes Around II” tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum art barn in Bridgehampton. Wine and cheese will be served. The group invited Ms. Musnicki, who lives in Sag Harbor, to collaborate with the organization on a project focused on the wild areas of the greenbelt. For the past 10 months, the artist has monitored several motion-activated digital cameras placed throughout the greenbelt, which yielded more than 150,000 still images.

Two Solos at Halsey Mckay

The Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton will present concurrent solo shows by Lauren Luloff and Joey Piziali from Saturday through July 14. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Ms. Luloff, who lives in Brooklyn, creates large collage paintings comprised of oil and bleach on bedsheets and other fabrics. Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, said the artist “excels at the extremes of ideas and touch.”

Acrylic, spray paint, ink, and tea are some of the materials Mr. Piziali uses to create his abstract paintings. He has been an active member of the San Francisco arts community for more than 10 years.

Strider at Lawrence

“The Second International Girlie Show,” a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Marjorie Strider, will open today at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton and remain on view through July 21. The title of the exhibition refers to a seminal 1964 exhibition at Pace Gallery, “The First International Girlie Show,” which was inspired by pinups and included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Ms. Strider, among others, placing her among the first wave of Pop artists.

The exhibition at Lawrence Fine Art will include recent paintings that return to the girlie pinup. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Next at Fireplace

“Chop Wood, Carry Water,” a show of work by Erika Keck, Nick Theobald, and Michael Bevilacqua, will open at the Fireplace Project in Springs tomorrow and run through July 21. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Keck uses paint, canvas, and stretchers or steel bars in unconventional combinations that aggressively deconstruct the medium. Beeswax, linen, and wood, Mr. Theobald’s materials, result in complex, tactile surfaces. Images from both popular culture and contemporary painting create a blend of high and low culture in the work of Mr. Bevilacqua.

Illuminated Art for Peace

Ellen Frank, an artist from Springs, will present her Cities of Peace Project on Wednesday at the annual conference on Arts, Peace, and Conflict at the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies in Liverpool, England. Cities of Peace includes monumental gold leaf paintings that honor the history and culture of world cities that have experienced trauma and conflict.

The project is an initiative of the Ellen Frank Illuminations Arts Foundation, which seeks to promote peace and understanding through illuminated art. It has been exhibited at 14 venues throughout the United States.

Multimedia at Nightingale

Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will open concurrent exhibitions by Yuliya Lanina and Dalton Portella tomorrow with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. that will include a short piano performance by Andrius Zlabys, a Grammy Award nominee, at 7. The exhibition will be on view through July 22.

“Play Me” is a multimedia presentation by Ms. Lanina consisting of paintings, animations, and animatronic sculptures of music boxes, each with original characters and accompanying music. Mr. Portella, an artist, musician, and surfer from Montauk, will show “Shark Room,” an installation of found objects, surfboard paintings, watercolors, and paintings depicting sharks as formal architectural objects.

Plein Air Invitational

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of the first Hamptons Plein Air Invitational on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Twenty-eight artists will not only exhibit their work in the main gallery, they will also paint en plein air Saturday in the area around Ashawagh Hall and at Gerard and Louse Points in Springs, and on Sunday on the grounds of the Pollock-Krasner House. Paintings from the excursions will also be on sale.

Images of New York

“Sense of Place: Images of New York” will open Tuesday at Birnam Wood Gallery in East Hampton and remain on view through July 18. Exhibiting artists are John Hardy, Beth O’Don­nell, Fred Stein, Susan Grossman, Ramon Espantaleon, and Clifford Smith. A reception will be held at the gallery on July 11 from 7 to 9 p.m.

“David Datuna: New Works” will run through Monday.

Temptation in Sag

“Edge of Temptation,” a group exhibition of paintings with sensual and seductive themes, will open at Richard J. Demato Fine Arts in Sag Harbor on Saturday with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Among the participating artists are Pamela Wilson, Teresa Elliott, Rick Garland, Katie O’Hagan, Frank Oriti, and Bart Vargas. The exhibition will run through June 24.

Found Objects

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will show the found object artwork of Jorge Silveira, Stephen Palmer, and William Skrips today through July 17, with a reception Saturday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Mr. Silveira transforms his found materials into animals and portraits. Wooden crutches, crayons, nails, and Ping-Pong paddles are among the components of Mr. Palmer’s fish sculptures. Mr. Skrips admits some people see his studio as a mess, but for him, “It’s a piece of my head.”

Odes to Nature

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will hold a reception Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a solo exhibition of paintings by Mark Dalessio that will remain on view through July 13. Mr. Dalessio has spent the past year traveling the world to capture on canvas the beauty of nature. Among the sites where he has worked en plein air are a farmhouse in Tuscany where he was been painting for more than 20 years and his new home in Croatia.

New at Arts Center

Julia Greffenius Scheuer will exhibit new mixed-media works at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, formerly the Parrish Art Museum, on Tuesday and Wednesday. A reception will take place Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Two other exhibitions will open today and run through July 20. “The Irrational Portrait Gallery: A Collaborative Portrait Project by Rick Wenner and FRESH” consists of 21 photographs taken by Mr. Wenner of artists. Also on view will be work by Claire Watson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Andreas Rentsch, presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts. All three artists have received grants from the foundation and have exhibited widely.

King at Duck Creek

An exhibition of large-scale outdoor aluminum sculptures by William King will be held at Duck Creek Farm in Springs from Sunday through Aug. 4. An opening reception for the artist, a longtime resident of East Hampton, will take place Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Founded in 1795, Duck Creek Farm was originally owned by three generations of the Edwards family. John Little, an East Hampton artist, purchased seven and a half acres of the property in 1948 and moved a 19th-century barn there. The Town of East Hampton bought the property in 2006.

Jess Frost, an art consultant from East Hampton, organized the exhibition in collaboration with the John Little Society, which was founded by Loring Bolger, Pamela Bicket, Ira Barocas, and Zachary Cohen to bring contemporary art to East Hampton.

Two at Drawing Room

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present concurrent solo exhibitions by Antonio Asis and Jennifer Bartlett from tomorrow through July 28. Mr. Asis was a key figure in the development of Op and Kinetic art. His work delves into chromatic phenomena and plasticity in painting and sculpture. The exhibition will include a rare selection of chromatic paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibition of Ms. Bartlett’s work focuses on her roots in system-based geometric imagery and her integration of abstract and figurative idioms. Work in the exhibition ranges in time from 1970 to the present.

Schmidt at Ille Arts

“Topography of Quiet,” an exhibition of work by Bastienne Schmidt, will be on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett from tomorrow through July 8. An opening reception with the artist, who lives in Bridgehampton, will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition accompanies the recent publication of her book of the same title, which explores through her paintings, drawings, and photography the subtle interaction between nature and imagination and the sensation and memory of travel. Ms. Schmidt will sign copies of her book at the reception.

Musnicki Installation

The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt will present a one-night multimedia art installation of Jill Musnicki’s “What Comes Around II” tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum art barn in Bridgehampton. Wine and cheese will be served. The group invited Ms. Musnicki, who lives in Sag Harbor, to collaborate with the organization on a project focused on the wild areas of the greenbelt. For the past 10 months, the artist has monitored several motion-activated digital cameras placed throughout the greenbelt, which yielded more than 150,000 still images.

Two Solos at Halsey Mckay

The Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton will present concurrent solo shows by Lauren Luloff and Joey Piziali from Saturday through July 14. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Ms. Luloff, who lives in Brooklyn, creates large collage paintings comprised of oil and bleach on bedsheets and other fabrics. Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, said the artist “excels at the extremes of ideas and touch.”

Acrylic, spray paint, ink, and tea are some of the materials Mr. Piziali uses to create his abstract paintings. He has been an active member of the San Francisco arts community for more than 10 years.

Strider at Lawrence

“The Second International Girlie Show,” a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Marjorie Strider, will open today at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton and remain on view through July 21. The title of the exhibition refers to a seminal 1964 exhibition at Pace Gallery, “The First International Girlie Show,” which was inspired by pinups and included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Ms. Strider, among others, placing her among the first wave of Pop artists.

The exhibition at Lawrence Fine Art will include recent paintings that return to the girlie pinup. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Next at Fireplace

“Chop Wood, Carry Water,” a show of work by Erika Keck, Nick Theobald, and Michael Bevilacqua, will open at the Fireplace Project in Springs tomorrow and run through July 21. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Keck uses paint, canvas, and stretchers or steel bars in unconventional combinations that aggressively deconstruct the medium. Beeswax, linen, and wood, Mr. Theobald’s materials, result in complex, tactile surfaces. Images from both popular culture and contemporary painting create a blend of high and low culture in the work of Mr. Bevilacqua.

Illuminated Art for Peace

Ellen Frank, an artist from Springs, will present her Cities of Peace Project on Wednesday at the annual conference on Arts, Peace, and Conflict at the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies in Liverpool, England. Cities of Peace includes monumental gold leaf paintings that honor the history and culture of world cities that have experienced trauma and conflict.

The project is an initiative of the Ellen Frank Illuminations Arts Foundation, which seeks to promote peace and understanding through illuminated art. It has been exhibited at 14 venues throughout the United States.

Multimedia at Nightingale

Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will open concurrent exhibitions by Yuliya Lanina and Dalton Portella tomorrow with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. that will include a short piano performance by Andrius Zlabys, a Grammy Award nominee, at 7. The exhibition will be on view through July 22.

“Play Me” is a multimedia presentation by Ms. Lanina consisting of paintings, animations, and animatronic sculptures of music boxes, each with original characters and accompanying music. Mr. Portella, an artist, musician, and surfer from Montauk, will show “Shark Room,” an installation of found objects, surfboard paintings, watercolors, and paintings depicting sharks as formal architectural objects.

Plein Air Invitational

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of the first Hamptons Plein Air Invitational on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Twenty-eight artists will not only exhibit their work in the main gallery, they will also paint en plein air Saturday in the area around Ashawagh Hall and at Gerard and Louse Points in Springs, and on Sunday on the grounds of the Pollock-Krasner House. Paintings from the excursions will also be on sale.

Images of New York

“Sense of Place: Images of New York” will open Tuesday at Birnam Wood Gallery in East Hampton and remain on view through July 18. Exhibiting artists are John Hardy, Beth O’Don­nell, Fred Stein, Susan Grossman, Ramon Espantaleon, and Clifford Smith. A reception will be held at the gallery on July 11 from 7 to 9 p.m.

“David Datuna: New Works” will run through Monday.

Temptation in Sag

“Edge of Temptation,” a group exhibition of paintings with sensual and seductive themes, will open at Richard J. Demato Fine Arts in Sag Harbor on Saturday with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Among the participating artists are Pamela Wilson, Teresa Elliott, Rick Garland, Katie O’Hagan, Frank Oriti, and Bart Vargas. The exhibition will run through June 24.

Found Objects

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will show the found object artwork of Jorge Silveira, Stephen Palmer, and William Skrips today through July 17, with a reception Saturday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Mr. Silveira transforms his found materials into animals and portraits. Wooden crutches, crayons, nails, and Ping-Pong paddles are among the components of Mr. Palmer’s fish sculptures. Mr. Skrips admits some people see his studio as a mess, but for him, “It’s a piece of my head.”

Odes to Nature

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will hold a reception Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a solo exhibition of paintings by Mark Dalessio that will remain on view through July 13. Mr. Dalessio has spent the past year traveling the world to capture on canvas the beauty of nature. Among the sites where he has worked en plein air are a farmhouse in Tuscany where he was been painting for more than 20 years and his new home in Croatia.

New at Arts Center

Julia Greffenius Scheuer will exhibit new mixed-media works at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, formerly the Parrish Art Museum, on Tuesday and Wednesday. A reception will take place Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Two other exhibitions will open today and run through July 20. “The Irrational Portrait Gallery: A Collaborative Portrait Project by Rick Wenner and FRESH” consists of 21 photographs taken by Mr. Wenner of artists. Also on view will be work by Claire Watson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Andreas Rentsch, presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts. All three artists have received grants from the foundation and have exhibited widely.

Judith Hudson at Tripoli

“Judith Hudson: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton tomorrow and remain on view through July 13. The exhibition consists of a series of watercolors that explore the humorous, lusty, and quixotic sides of Shakespeare’s comedy. A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

“Shakespeare is the master of one-liners,” said Ms. Hudson, who lives in Amagansett and New York City. “The flesh and fur and dreams and antics of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ are a bottomless resource, as are the digressions.”

Ms. Hudson has exhibited widely, and her work is included in many public and private collections.

Sonnier to Speak

Artists Speak, a series of summer programs that began in 1983 at the Art Barge on Napeague, will inaugurate its 2014 season on Wednesday at 6 p.m. with a conversation between Keith Sonnier and Janet Goleas, an artist, curator, writer, and host of the series.

Mr. Sonnier, who lives in Bridgehampton and New York, helped to revolutionize sculpture in the late 1960s through experimentations with latex, satin, bamboo, video, performance, and neon. His work is represented in the collections of prestigious museums through­out the world.

Tickets are $20. More information can be found at theartbarge.com.

Tonic Artspace Pops Up

Tonic Artspace will open its summer season Saturday at the Jackson Carriage House in Amagansett with “Grand Royale,” a group exhibition of East End artists organized by Carly Haffner. The exhibition will be open to the public Saturdays and Sundays through July 12, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

The work of 30 artists will be on view, including new works by Rossa Cole, Peter Dayton, Ron Focarino, Kristi Hood, Peter Ngo, Sven Hokanson, and many more.

The Jackson Carriage House is at the intersection of Main Street and Windmill Lane. The gallery will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. on weekends.

New at Eric Firestone

“#highfunctioningADD,” the first solo exhibition in the United States of work by Donald Robertson, will be on view at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton from Saturday through June 30.

Mr. Robertson, who is also known at Donald Drawbertson, is a prolific creator of drawings, paintings, and photographs, which he posts, along with other images, on his Instagram site at the rate of 10 or more per day.

When not in his studio, Mr. Robertson works as head of creative development at Bobbi Brown cosmetics, the most recent stop in a long career in the fashion and beauty fields.

An opening reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

Two Shows at Ashawagh

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of two exhibitions during the coming week. “Mixed Media Plus,” a group show of 11 artists, most of whom work in collage, will be on view Saturday and Sunday, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

“Collision,” an exhibition of abstract paintings by David Demers and Zoe Pennebaker Breen, will be shown Wednesday and next Thursday. The artists will be on hand to discuss their works from 5 to 8 p.m. on both days, and refreshments will be served.

Meet the Artist

Lili Almog, whose exhibition “Down to Earth” is currently on view at Vered Gallery in East Hampton, will be at the gallery Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. to talk about her new series, which features landscapes utilizing satellite imagery and embellished by her own drawings. A 25-minute film about the artist will be screened every hour, starting at 3 p.m.

The exhibition will run through June 30.

McNeill Opens New Space

The McNeill Art Group will open a summer exhibition space at 40 Hill Street in Southampton Saturday with “Stained with Sweet,” a group show that will remain on view through July 13.

The show will include paintings by Perry Burns, neon sculpture and photographs by Tapp Francke, paintings, concrete sculpture, and design by Jeff Muhs, and texturized colored salt paintings by Bettina Werner.

An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

New at Old Whalers

“Under the Influence,” an exhibition organized by Peter Marcelle, will open at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum tomorrow and remain on view through July 8. The exhibition explores the relationships between nine contemporary artists and the artists who have inspired them.

The pairs of artists are as follows: Terry Elkins-Andrew Wyeth, Eric Ernst-William Baziotes, Cornelia Foss-Larry Rivers, Steve Miller-Andy Warhol, Michelle Murphy-Jamie Wyeth, Dan Rizzie-Donald Sultan, Stephen Schaub-Alfred Stieglitz, Mike Viera-Eric Fischl, and Gavin Zeigler-William Scharf.

An opening reception will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

Inspired by Nature

The Nature Conservancy is presenting “Nature Inspires,” a group show organized by Silas Marder, on view Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through July 2 at the Center for Conservation, 142 Route 114 in East Hampton.

The show features works by local landscape artists including Bobbie Braun, Jim Gingerich, Terry Elkins, Catherine Krusos, and members of the Wednesday Group, an association of plein air painters.

The island-wide work of the conservancy will receive 30 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings.

Garden Party in Sag

Dodds & Eder Home in Sag Harbor will host a garden party with music and refreshments on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. The occasion is the exhibition of 10 sculptures by seven artists in the gallery’s outdoor sculpture garden.

The sculptors, Bill Barrett, Michael Chiarello, John Cino, Gregory de la Haba, David Elze, Dennis Leri, and Paul Pavia have mastered their artistry in aluminum, marble, and steel.

The exhibition will be on view through October.

Cornelia Foss in New York

Recent work by Cornelia Foss will be shown at Gerald Peters Gallery in New York City today through July 18. Organized by Peter Marcelle, the exhibition will include new landscapes, seascapes, and garden scenes.

Ms. Foss, who lives in Bridgehampton, is a painterly realist. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as many public and private collections.

An opening reception will take place today from 6 to 8 p.m.

Susan Vecsey’s Paintings

Susan Vecsey, who lives in New York and East Hampton, has work on view at Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea through July 3. Ms. Vecsey’s oil-stained paintings, which make reference to shapes in the landscape, are said to evoke emotion through color and composition.

A visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2012, Ms. Vecsey’s work is held in many collections, including that of Guild Hall.

Open Studios at Watermill

The Watermill Center visiting artists studios of Mohammed Kazem and Maya Chami will be open Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Mr. Kazem, who was born in Dubai, creates conceptual explorations of the environment through works on paper, video, photography, and installation. Born in Beirut, Ms. Chami, a practitioner of graphic design and digital arts, will present three audiovisual works.

A reception will coincide with the presentations, and a tour of the center will take place at 2 p.m. Free reservations may be made at watermillcenter.org.

New in Water Mill

Gallery 125, an exhibition space in Bellport that represents painters living and working in Suffolk County, will open an East End venue on Saturday in the Water Mill space previously occupied by Hampton Hang.

The show, which will include work by Rex Ashlock, Arthur Pinajian, and Russell Christoffersen, will remain on view through July 13. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.