Arts

“Every ‘failure’ is a piece of future luck. Because it brings you closer to being ready.” This bit of wisdom from Uncle Lester, an eccentric and flop-prone composer of musical theater, to his nephew, Jimmy, a budding cartoonist, in Jules Feiffer’s 1993 illustrated novel, “The Man in the Ceiling,” is the heart of the matter.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, a Southampton performing arts and educational organization, will bring to the stage “TAP: An Evening of Rhythm!” at the Southampton Cultural Center tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater on Friday, April 29, also at 7.

Classic country music will be coming to the East Hampton Library on Saturday afternoon at 1 when Gayden Wren will perform as Tennessee Walt in a solo concert featuring two dozen songs, arranged for voice and piano, by Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and other country greats.

The Museum of Art in Deland, Fla. will have an exhibition of the work of Syd Solomon opening Friday, April 29. A reception will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Guild Hall’s 78th annual Artist Members Exhibition will open Saturday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and continue through June 4.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival’s Spring Docs Day will celebrate cats, dogs, and songbirds with three films and a daylong silent auction on Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will hold a book club-style discussion tomorrow at 6 p.m. on “25 Women: Essays on Their Art,” a new book by Dave Hickey, an art critic as provocative as he is influential.

The East Hampton Library’s Tom Twomey Lecture Series will launch its 2016 season on Saturday at 5 p.m. with “Colonial Commerce,” a discussion featuring Frank Sorrentino, a researcher, and Steve Russell Boerner, an archivist, both of whom draw upon the library’s Long Island Collection.

The Southampton Cultural Center will present “Mama’s Diary,” a gospel musical written and directed by Tramar Pettaway, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The show is the prequel to “Mama’s Last Song,” which was written by Mr. Pettaway in memory of his mother and performed in Southampton in 2014. Tickets are $15.

The Art of Song’s Parlor Jazz Series will feature “The Great City,” a performance by Hilary Gardner, a singer and writer from Brooklyn, on Saturday evening at 7:30 at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Archive Building.

Museum permanent collection shows can be confusing. Some are installed, well, permanently, and others are of the more ephemeral variety. The Museum of Modern Art’s “Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954,” for example, has been up for a few months but will be a memory come May 1.

The Met: Live in HD will present Gaetano Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. First performed in Naples in 1837, the opera is based on a historical incident, the execution for treason of Robert Devereux, the favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a modern take on the classical on Saturday at 8 p.m. with a performance of “Don Pasquale,” Doni­zetti’s classic comic opera.

The annual spring exhibition of the group Photographers East will take place on Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Participating photographers are Bill Alves, Nina Bataller, Fred Bertrand, Marilyn Di Carlo-Ames, Gerry Giliberti, Dave Gilmore, Bruce Milne, Sandy Peabody, Anne Sager, Joan Santos, Dainis Saulitis, Fred VanderWerven, and Denis Wolf. An exhibition of work by six artists will open today at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and run through May 5. A reception will happen Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30.

For the first time in its 16-year history, the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab included a master class that was open to the public, and the public turned out in force, filling the theater in the Ross School’s Senior Thesis Building on Saturday afternoon for an hour with Alexander Dinelaris, one of the Oscar-winning writers of “Birdman: Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.”

A very solid and crowd-pleasing version of the play is currently running at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue through Sunday.

Dance Fusion at the Southampton Cultural Center will hold an open dance workshop led by Jody Oberfelder, a director, choreographer, and filmmaker, from 3 to 4:45 p.m. on Saturday. A performance by Ms. Oberfelder’s company of “The Brain Piece,” a choreographed union of movement, film, neuroscience, and sound, will follow at 6.

“Dry Stone Art in the Landscape: Fleeting Thoughts and Works of Friction,” a talk by Dan Snow, an artist, craftsman, and writer from Vermont, will take place on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House.

It has now been more than 20 years since Jerry Garcia, guitarist and cofounder of the Grateful Dead, died at age 53, effectively ending the band’s 30-year lifespan. In the ensuing years, however, the Dead’s influence has not only persisted, but directly inspired both countless other bands and an entire musical genre.

The Montauk Library will present “Masterworks for Violin and Piano,” a free concert by Katherine Addleman and Stanichka Dimitrova, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

The second of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s spring concerts will take place on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “Newport Folk Festival: A Retrospective Film Screening” tomorrow at 8 p.m.

When considering street art, or graffiti, its transience would not be the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the elements are unkind to the type of paint preferred by those who paint al fresco (en plein air, if you like) on concrete, brick, aluminum, or other exterior surfaces.

Eric Booker, assistant curator at the National Academy Museum, will discuss Stephen Antonakos’s work at the Drawing Room in East Hampton. An exhibit of the artist's work will open tomorrow and run to May 9. The sixth annual “Art Groove,” a multimedia event including art, music, and video, will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Don't miss the reception Saturday night from 6 to 11, which will be a multimedia event.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will begin accepting submissions tomorrow for the 2016 festival, which will take place at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater from Dec. 1 through Dec. 4.

For those old enough to remember the psychedelic ’60s, and those who wish they could, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “A Night at the Fillmore East: A Musical Tribute to the Legendary Venue” on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Four screenwriters will come to East Hampton on Friday, April 8, to participate in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab, the festival announced this week.

Madoo in Manhattan, the third annual Robert Dash Garden Design lecture, will take place on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club.

Tap dancing will be on the menu at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. when Brian Seibert, a dance critic and features writer for The New York Times, will discuss his book “What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap.”

The Rising Stars piano series will return to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. with a concert by the Anderson-Roe Duo.

Managing one career at a time is enough for most people, but not for Setha Low. After receiving her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976, she established herself as a leading scholar and researcher in the field of cultural anthropology, focusing on the politics of public spaces, their increasing privatization, and the need to preserve diversity in their use.