Artists on Inspiration

    “Unmasking the Muse: Inspiration in the Arts,” a panel discussion with Laurie Anderson, Andrea Cote, and Maria Maciak moderated by Marion Wolberg Weiss, will take place Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs.

    Ms. Anderson, who has a house in Springs, is an internationally renowned experimental performance artist, composer, and musician whose work has extended the boundaries of performance for four decades.

    Much of Ms. Cote’s multimedia work uses her own body as subject, object, and medium, but she has also produced temporary public art projects and site-specific installations on the East End, in New York City, and around the country. She lives in Flanders.

    Ms. Maciak, who is the media director at the Ross School in East Hampton, has worked as a producer, director, camera operator, and film and video editor. At Ross, she organized the Ross Human Rights Film Festival in collaboration with Human Rights Watch.

    The program will begin with a wine and cheese reception, followed at 6 by the panel discussion. Admission is $5, free for members, and reservations are not required.

Fireplace Project at Surf Lodge

    “EXSanguiNatio_n,” an exhibition of work by Michael Bevilacqua, will open tomorrow at the Fireplace Project at the Surf Lodge in Montauk and remain on view through July 13. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Mr. Bevilacqua’s work has long been informed by pop culture and, especially, music. “EXSanguiNatio_n means bleeding to death,” he has written. “I have been working with spray paint for the last several years to bring the medium beyond the idea of graffiti. Works come together in a collision between Mark Rothko and Lana Del Rey.”

    His work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. He lives in New York City.

New at Birnam Wood

    “Elements,” an exhibition of new work by David Datuna, opens today at Birnam Wood Gallery in East Hampton and will run through July 1. The show consists of portraits of famous figures, among them Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, and Michael Jackson.

    Each portrait incorporates a varying matrix of small dots, digitally printed, that coalesce into a recognizable image. An undulating screen of eyeglass lenses of different prescriptions is mounted over each image, forming a complex “lens” that both reveals and distorts the figures.

    Born in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, Mr. Datuna lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited widely in this country and abroad. His installation “Viewpoint of Billions” was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in February.

Sayre Barn Reopens

    On the occasion of the reopening of the Sayre Barn, the Southampton Historical Museum will present an exhibition of highly detailed oversized photographs, taken by Ulf Skogsbergh, of the deconstruction of the 1825 building. An opening reception for both the barn and the show will be held on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

    For Mr. Skogsbergh, a photographer who lives in Southampton, the dismantling of the barn provided an opportunity to examine and document the building techniques and design imperatives of an earlier age.

    The exhibition will include photographs of single objects — among them a saw, a plow, a shingle, and a horseshoe — in dramatic isolation on a white background. Other images focus on the sculptural beauty of the building’s skeleton.

    The exhibition will be installed in the barn, which was renovated by Strada Baxter Design/Build. Admission to the reception is free; light refreshments will be served.

Three Amigos From Sagg

    “The Three Amigos of Sagaponack,” an exhibition of work by Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Nathan Slate Joseph, and Ed Haugevik, is on view at the Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor through July 2.

    Mr. Van de Bovenkamp is known for monumental sculptures but also creates smaller pieces and drawings. Mr. Joseph will exhibit textured, weathered pieces that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Mr. Haugevik’s minimalist steel sculptures have been commissioned for sites throughout the country, including the Hayground School in Bridgehampton.

    A reception will take place on June 21 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Abstraction at Ashawagh

    Ashawagh Hall in Springs will host “Mostly Abstract II,” a group exhibition, on Saturday and Sunday. Painting, sculpture, drawings, and photography by 11 artists who approach abstraction in a variety of styles, will be on view.

    An opening reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

John Little Society

    A correction to last week’s Art Scene: Donations to the John Little Society should be made payable to the Town of East Hampton, with “Duck Creek Art Exhibition” specified on the face of the check, and mailed to Jess Frost, 366 Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton 11937.

Benefit for Wildlife

    Artists for Elephants and Rhinos, a benefit for the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, will be held on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Dora Frost Studio, 15 Windmill Lane in Southampton.

    Artwork by Lucy Cookson, Dinah Maxwell Smith, Sander Whitlan, Judith Whitlan, Alice Ryan, Allan Ryan, Kimberly Goff, Ronny Cohen, John Rist, Trevor Boteler, Blair Seagram, and Ms. Frost will be on view.

    The foundation, which is registered in Houston and headquartered in Zimbabwe, trains rangers across southern Africa, where they provide the first and last line of defense against the illegal trafficking of wildlife. Fifty percent of all art sales will go to the foundation.

Fans of “Antiques Road Show” can take their own trash or treasures to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton on Saturday. The event, Antique Treasures, will allow participants to take up to three items that they simply love and want to know more about, or hate but have kept because Grandmother said it was of great value. Either way, for $30, attendees can learn the truth about their keepsakes, which can be anything from decorative and fine arts to jewelry, silver, and small antiques.

The program, hosted by St. Ann’s Outreach Program, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participating appraisers include Terry Wallace of the Wallace Gallery in East Hampton, Gary Weinshank, Marsha Malinowski, Leonard Davenport, Kevin Tierney, and Robert Barker.

A reception and house tour will take place that night, at a 300-year-old house in Water Mill. Tickets for the reception cost $125 per person and $225 per couple. Tickets for the appraisal can be bought in advance at antiquetreasuresday.com. Proceeds from the event will benefit East End Hospice, the Dominican Sisters Family Health Service, and Maureen’s Haven.

The Perlman Music Program is active on the East End again this summer, with several events happening during the next week. This weekend, Itzhak Perlman, Merry Peckham, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, Don Weilerstein, and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein will join forces with young musicians to play chamber music masterpieces.

The concert, “Classical Collaborations,” will be performed twice, first on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center and again on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton. A reception with the artists will follow each concert. Tickets for the Southampton concert are $50, free for those under 18. Tickets for the East Hampton concert range from $50 to $200.

From Monday to Friday, June 13, Mr. Perlman and others will teach master classes at the Kristy and James H. Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. The classes will take place at 7 each evening.

On June 14 and 15, again at the arts center, the Perlman Music Program will host the final concert of its chamber music workshop. On both days, the concert will be given twice, once at 3:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.

Both the master classes and the concerts are free and open to the public. Because seating is limited, the center recommends calling 212-877-5045 in advance to confirm seats.

On Saturday morning at 11, Guild Hall will host “Rothko Revisited: A Panel Discussion.” The talk will be presented in conjunction with “Red,” the two-person drama about the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, currently playing in the John Drew Theater through June 8. Donald Blinken, former president of the Rothko Foundation; Stephen Hamilton, director of the production; Ben Heller, an art collector, and Christophe de Menil will make up the panel. Seating will be on stage.

The John Drew Theatre Lab will host “Teen Oblivion: Up and Coming East End Bands” next Thursday at 7 p.m. Performers include Skylar Day, Supply Side, and others to be announced. Admission is $5.

The Parrish Art Museum’s “Sounds of Summer” live music series will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with “The Next Level Band,” a five-piece steel drum reggae group that features the vocals of La Dawn Parris and the guitar and steel-drum playing of her husband, Tyrone Parris. The band, which performs regularly throughout the tristate area, plays reggae favorites as well as original arrangements of classics.

The concert will be held outside on the terrace. Tickets are $10, free for members.

The Barnes Landing Association will hold its 13th annual Writers and Artists Showcase, in memory of Anna Mirabai Lytton, on Saturday from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at its meetinghouse in Springs. The event features the writing, artwork, and performance art of members of the community.

This year’s program will include readings from new writings by Hiroo Dickler Awano, Lisa Dickler Awano, Elena Lesser Bruun, Fran Castan, Ramesh Das, Edward Hannibal, Phyllis Kriegel, Kate Rabinowitz, Dee Slavutin, Carole Stone, Martin Tucker, and Francine Whitney. The visual artists Dave Bennett, Christopher Panczner, and Lewis Zacks will show and discuss their work. Melissa Biezin, a vocalist, and Gregory Lynch, a violinist, will perform.

The event has been renamed to honor Ms. Lytton, a beloved community member, local student, and young writer who was hit by a car and killed last summer in East Hampton. Anna’s parents will read a poem written by their daughter.

The legendary Judson Dance Theater will be the subject of a talk by Judy Hussie-Taylor on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Watermill Center. Between 1962 and 1966, hundreds of choreographers, visual artists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers experimented with modes of performance at the Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square in Greenwich Village.

In 2012, Ms. Hussie-Taylor, executive and artistic director of Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, invited many of the original performers as well as a new generation of artists to consider Judson’s impact on their work. She will talk about organizing “Platform 2012: Judson Now,” which included live presentations by Steve Paxton, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Meredith Monk, and Carolee Schneemann, among many others.

The talk is free. Reservations, which are required, may be made at watermillcenter.org.

“God of Carnage‚” by Yasmina Reza, opened at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue last week, the end of a standout season of productions that managed to be both funny and provocative at the same time.

The play, performed without an intermission, follows the afternoon get-together of two sets of parents who meet to discuss what to do after their 11-year-old sons have engaged in a playground battle. The couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh (Andrew Botsford and Rosemary Cline) and Michael and Veronica Novak (Joe Pallister and Jessica Ellwood), talk about “the soothing powers of culture‚” and “the art of co-existence,” sip espresso, and admire expensive flowers, while just underneath the veneer, all hell is about to break loose, Albee-style.

The meeting begins with awkward formality as the group samples Veronica’s clafouti and Alan answers a stream of business calls on his cell, and slowly degenerates into a name-calling, foot-stomping free-for-all. Whether it’s a casual confession by Michael about what he did with their daughter’s hamster, or Annette’s sudden onset of nausea (emetophobes beware), their real nature rises to the surface.

At some point, alliances form and are broken — one couple against the other, or the men against the women, or any other possible combination. Add in the expensive rum, and eventually all of the niceties are stripped away and dog-eat-dog triumphs over civility. The god of carnage is, as always, pleased by the sacrifice.

This is all done in fun, of course, and the audience gets a good dose of low-class humor as the high-class parents become children themselves. “God of Carnage‚” won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2009, and prior to that, the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (which was also won by “Heroes,” another French-to-English translation served up earlier in the Quogue season). Roman Polanski adapted Reza’s play into the 2011 film “Carnage.”

The performances are all spot-on. Mr. Botsford plays Michael — who is really in two places at once as he tries to put out pharmaceutical fires on his cell while appearing interested in the parental conference — with a dash of well-placed confusion and a heaping helpful of arrogance, a winning comedy combination. Joe Pallister’s Michael is a real man forced to wear a monkey suit by his controlling wife, Veronica, played with panache by Jessica Ellwood, who tries to keep everything functioning smoothly. Rosemary Cline gets to make one of the largest leaps, from composed, cultured wealth management director to a frightened, sickly, spoiled child. All in all, the cast works together and works well.

Diana Marbury, who directs with aplomb, has also delivered a set that features a stylish neutral living room with a background of angry red, a portent of what the evening will bring.

“God of Carnage” lets the audience enjoy watching an urbanite, bourgeois train crash up close and personal, but with plenty of laughs emerging from the wreckage.

The play will remain in production through June 8, with performances Thursdays through Sundays. Tickets and showtimes are available at hamptontheatre.org.

Andrea Cote is a multimedia artist whose work includes photography, prints, paintings, sculptures, performances, and installations. “I do work that invites people to participate, that’s very public, but then I also have work that’s very private, done in the studio,” she said last week.

Ms. Cote’s public art projects will be the subject of a talk at Guild Hall on Saturday at 3 p.m. Her most recent was “Eyes on Main Street,” which was exhibited last year from May to October in downtown Riverhead. Her intention was to promote an awareness of the town’s diversity and the stories of its citizens.  

“Living in Flanders, I knew that Riverhead had been trying to draw people there to see what’s going on,” she said. “The East End Arts Council has been on Main Street for a long time, and the Suffolk Theater opened last year, but there are also a lot of vacant storefronts. I wanted a way to activate those empty windows.”

“Eyes on Main Street” consisted of a website, which is still accessible; posters placed in empty storefronts, and a window installation of 75 blindfolds on which Ms. Cote printed photographs of the eyes of local residents and business owners. “The blindfolds are quite beautiful on their own, but there’s something else that happens when you put them on a person. It becomes uncanny and striking.”

Each poster shows the artist standing in front of a Main Street location, wearing a blindfold printed with the eyes of the person associated with that site. The posters were imprinted with QR codes (barcodes containing information about the items to which they are attached), which, when scanned with a smartphone, opened a video portrait of the person. The videos are mini-documentaries that add up to a portrait of a community. A selection will be shown at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs in September as part of the Artists on Film series.

Ms. Cote’s video “Memorized” is currently playing in the artist-members exhibition at Guild Hall. At the O, Miami Poetry Festival in 2013, she invited people to write their favorite line from a poem with chalk on a blackboard, photographed each one, and created a slideshow from the results. “I was a poetry minor,” she said. “I’m thinking about a piece using my own poetry and a chalkboard, for which I’ll cast my own chalk.”

The human body is often the generative element of her more private, studio-based work. For two decades she has used the body as both subject and object, often in the same work. For “Second Skin,” she cast a rubber mask of her face and took a series of self-portraits trying it on and otherwise handling it. “I was after a sense of vulnerability,” she explained. “I’m playing with what it means to shed one’s skin or adopt a persona.” The mask both exposes and hides what’s beneath it.

In a series of collages, Ms. Cote cut out her own naked figure from a sequence of photographs and treated the images as paper dolls, folding, twisting, and distorting them. She used an overhead projector aimed at a studio wall on which she had pinned other objects and photographed the resulting collages, which have the surreal feel of Man Ray’s Rayographs. Her body is both a representation and an object to be manipulated, and the distortions add an unsettling effect to some of the images.

Photography, printmaking, and casting figure prominently in Ms. Cote’s work. “There’s something about casting and printmaking that creates a record, an indexical mark,” she said. “I often have a setup, a conceptual framework for a piece, but then I just play with the materials. It becomes a performance in the studio, and the photographs are a record.”

In one work from graduate school, Ms. Cote interacted with a life-sized silhouette of herself, cut out of Mylar — peering through it, dancing with it, and hiding behind it, while she herself was naked. For the series “Body Print Mandalas” she created rubber casts of parts of her body, then inked and pressed them to Mylar, creating abstract patterns that are nonetheless recognizable for what they are. “In these works I am taking the body apart in fragments with the intent to weave them together in new and more ‘wholistic’ ways.”

Ms. Cote is now working on materials for a show in September at Art Sites in Riverhead, featuring live performances in the gallery, photographic work, and the opportunity for viewers to sit for castings.

She showed a visitor a recent cast of the face of Claire Watson, an artist from Water Mill. “I talk to people while I’m sculpting them,” she said, “and I record the conversations, which will be compiled into a sound piece shown with the portraits. So it becomes a whole experience between two people, with one trying to capture the other.”

She also plans to create a live mandala on the Art Sites floor using her body and Peconic River mud. Again, the body is present, in action, but it is also a tool. Once completed, the mandala will be a record, a kind of action painting using the body and mud instead of brushes and paint.

Ms. Cote was born in Brooklyn but grew up and went to college in Miami. After graduating with a B.F.A. in 1994, she and her sister “just got in the car and drove from Miami to Seattle.” There, she worked as an artist’s model (“Modeling was my introduction to performance”). After two years she moved to Philadelphia for a year, then enrolled at the State University at Purchase, where she earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 2003.

Ms. Cote and her husband, Pierre Cote, a sculptor, left Brooklyn for Flanders in 2007 when his employer, Crozier Fine Arts, asked him to manage the company’s Southampton office. Soon after they relocated, Ms. Cote became pregnant. Their son, Nathaniel, is now 6.

In 2012, the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College presented “Body of Evidence,” a 13-year survey of Ms. Cote’s work. She has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University’s Newark campus, and galleries both nationally and internationally. She has created performances for the Dumbo Arts Festival, the Neuberger Museum, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, to name just a few.

For the past year Ms. Cote has been the teaching artist in the Watermill Center’s Young Artists Residency Project. The after-school arts program, run in partnership with the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center, engages students ages 8 to 12 in visual and performance arts. “The kids get to see the collection, interact with the artists in residence, and work with different materials,” she said. “Upcoming is a live performance with video, text, dancing, and drumming. It’s fun working with the kids, and it keeps you on your toes.”

On July 18 she will lead a “gesture jam” on the terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The idea of the program, which is an inventive figure-drawing class, was born in Seattle, where Ms. Cote and her partner choreographed and improvised performances while artists sketched them. For the Parrish jam, musicians will provide the soundtrack and serve as the models at the same time.

William King

At Duck Creek Farm

The John Little Society will host an installation of three outdoor sculptures by William King, the noted East Hampton artist, at Duck Creek Farm in Springs from June 29 through the month of July.

The society, created to bring contemporary art to East Hampton, is seeking donations in support of arts programming at the historic farm, which was bought by Little, an Abstract Expressionist painter, in 1948 and purchased by the Town of East Hampton in 2006.

While donations of any amount will be appreciated, three categories of sponsorship have been established: Platinum ($250), Gold ($100), and Silver ($50). Sponsorship-level donations received by June 10 will be acknowledged in the exhibition announcement.

Checks, made payable  to the Town of East Hampton, with "Duck Creek Art Exhibition" specified on the face of the check, may be mailed to Jess Frost, 366 Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton 11937.

New at Halsey Mckay

Concurrent exhibitions of work by Matt Kenny and Adam Marnie will open Saturday at Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton and remain on view through June 23.

“Other City,” Mr. Kenny’s first solo show at the gallery, includes three bodies of work that map the psychological and physical residue of New York City’s ever-expanding landscape.

“Recursions” continues Mr. Marnie’s engagement with site-specific installation and architectural intervention, with red inkjet prints mounted onto altered sheets of drywall, transforming the gallery space.

An opening reception will take place Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Ceramics at Ille

Ille Arts in Amagansett will host an exhibition of ceramics by Steve Keister, Jennie Jieun Lee, and Elizabeth Levine from Saturday through June 24, with an opening reception scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

In Mr. Keister’s recent work, the cast forms are arranged to create relief images of birds, insects, and other creatures, loosely based on Mesoamerican glyphic images. Ms. Lee, who was born in Korea and grew up in New York, reinterprets historical forms and techniques through the lens of her personal history. Ms. Levine, who lives in Amagansett and New York City, will exhibit colorful earthenware flowers.

Schmidt to Sign

Bastienne Schmidt, a mixed-media artist who lives in Bridgehampton, will sign copies of her new book, “Topography of Quiet,” Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at BookHampton’s East Hampton store.

Inspired by her travels in Egypt, Vietnam, Japan, Burma, and Greece, the book explores, through paintings, drawings, and photographs, the interaction between nature and imagination and the sensation and memory of travel.

An exhibition of work drawn from “Topography of Quiet” will be held at Ille Arts in Amagansett from June 27 through July 8.

Peter Dayton in Chelsea

“Anarchy in My Head,” an exhibition of paintings, collages, and sculpture by Peter Dayton, opens today at Winston Wachter Fine Art in Chelsea with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will remain on view through July 31.

Mr. Dayton, who lives in East Hampton, has created a body of work that ranges from lush flower collages, through glossy surfboard paintings inspired by the work of such artists as Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland, to vinyl discs and record jackets that pay tribute to the music industry.

Hoie in Peace and War

“Bountiful Harvest,” an exhibition of Claus Hoie’s fruit and vegetable-inspired paintings, will open tomorrow at the Bridgehampton Museum and remain on view through Oct. 15. A reception will be held tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m.

Created during the last three decades of Hoie’s life, the watercolors reflect his intellectual curiosity, imagination, and sense of humor. The paintings on view have been donated to the museum’s permanent collection by the Helen and Claus Hoie Charitable Foundation.

Five watercolors and one line drawing currently on view at the NATO ambassador’s residence in Brussels, Belgium, show the application of Hoie’s skills to a very different subject. Those works were created during World War II, when the artist was serving with the Army’s 99th Infantry Battalion. After the Brussels exhibition, the works will travel to other sites in Europe before being installed permanently at the Paris post of the American Legion.

Beach Scenes at Rogers

“Hail to the Beach,” an exhibition of paintings by Dinah Maxwell Smith, will open with a reception Saturday between 4 and 6 p.m. at the Southampton Historical Museum and remain on view through Oct. 8.

Ms. Smith, who lives in Southampton, uses a sensual handling of paint to depict naturalistic environments. Inspired by historical photographs, the work in the current exhibition features impressionistic paintings of Long Island beach scenes.

The show will take place at the Rogers Mansion, which is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $4, free for members and children under 18.

Abstract Paintings at Kramoris

“Open Paths,” a selection of abstract paintings by Christopher Engel, will open today at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor, where it will be on view through June 26.

According to the gallery, the paintings were inspired by the interplay of light and wind on the water visible from Mr. Engel’s studio overlooking Long Pond in Sag Harbor, as well as his former summer studio off the coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Woodcuts of Old New York by Ted Davies will also be on view at the gallery. A reception will take place on June 14 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

New at Crazy Monkey

A new exhibition featuring the work of Andrea McCafferty, Ellyn Tucker, and Bob Tucker will open at the Crazy Monkey Gallery in Amagansett today and run through June 30. Work by other gallery members will also be on view. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Antiques Treasures

St. Ann’s Outreach Program will host Antiques Treasures, a day of appraisals, on June 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Ann’s Church in Bridgehampton. Appraisers will include Terry Wallace, Gary Weinshank, Marsha Malinowski, Leo­nard Davenport, Kevin Tierney, and Robert Barker. The $30 admission allows participants to bring three items for appraisal, which can be anything from decorative arts and fine arts to jewelry, silver, and small antiques. A reception and house tour will be held that night at a 300-year-old house in Water Mill. Tickets for the reception are $125 per person and $225 per couple. Tickets for the appraisal can be bought in advance by calling 537-1527. Money from the event will benefit the East End Hospice, the Dominican Sisters, and Maureen’s Haven.