Arts

The East Hampton Library will present “Jazz: The First American Art Form,” a free lecture by Craig Boyd, on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4. Mr. Boyd, a professor of music at Suffolk Community College and recipient of the New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, will examine the history of jazz from its conception to the present.

For the past few months, Guild Hall has displayed an array of photographic portraits in the intimate space of its Wasserstein Gallery. The set of 15 predominantly black-and-white prints, the work of Walter Weissman, befit the room, and the room enhances them.

For those who think the Hamptons International Film Festival hibernates during February, think again. The festival that never sleeps will present, in partnership with Guild Hall, a screening of Robert Altman’s 1971 classic “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the John Drew Theater. Alec Baldwin, the festival’s co-chairman, and David Nugent, its artistic director, will host a discussion after the screening.

After lives spent mostly in cities, the actors Harris Yulin and Kristen Lowman have embraced the woods and ponds and fields of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and Mr. Yulin has become an enthusiastic birder. 

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the Donmar Warehouse’s London production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” as part of its National Theater Live series, on Saturday evening at 7. The play was adapted by Christopher Hampton from Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel of sex, intrigue, and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France that scandalized the world.

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The band Great Caesar’s Ghost has released “Live at the Stephen Talkhouse,” documenting its Aug. 13, 2015, performance there with Butch Trucks, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.

Carlos Lama, a D.J., vinyl enthusiast, and audio engineer from Sag Harbor who has been a fixture on the East End music scene since moving here from Texas in 2010, will host the next Artists and Writers Night at Almond restaurant in Bridgehampton, on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will rock this weekend with “All the Hits: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” two tribute concerts set for tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tomorrow’s concert will focus on the bands’ early years, 1960 to 1966; Saturday’s will highlight their music from 1967 and after.

Clifford Ross has a busy week ahead. On Saturday at 8 p.m., imagery from the multimedia artist’s abstract video “Harmonium Mountain” will accompany a performance by Julian Rachlin of Beethoven’s violin sonatas 1, 6, 9, and 10 in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. Tickets are $35 and up, $25 for patrons under 35.

Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library will present “1966: Cinema Breaks Free,” a series of three influential films from that pivotal year, and a related lecture.

Guild Hall’s 31st Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award dinner will take place on March 8 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Each year the academy honors notable figures in the performing, visual, and literary arts who are either part-time or full-time residents of the East End.

The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will open “Love and Passion,” a group exhibition of work by more than 50 artists, on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. “Michelle Stuart, Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works” is on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through June 26. A reception for the artist, who has a house in Amagansett, will take place Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.

An encore screening of the National Theatre’s London production of “Jane Eyre,” adapted from Charlotte Bronte’s novel, will take place Saturday at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall. Sally Cookson’s production, hailed by The Financial Times as “witty, impassioned, and bold,” was first staged by the Bristol Old Vic last year before moving to the National.

The Art of Song’s Parlor Jazz series will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s archives building on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with “From Django to Piazzolla,” a performance by Dallas Vietty, an American jazz accordionist who specializes in the Parisian swing-waltz style of Musette and Gypsy jazz.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will open its East End Music Film Series on Sunday at 2 p.m. with a screening of Sharyn Felder’s “A.K.A. Doc Pomus.” Hosted by Suzy Elmiger, an accomplished film editor, the series will also feature D.A. Pennebaker’s “Company” and his first film, “Daybreak Express,” on Feb. 7 and “Voices of Sarafina!” by Nigel Nobel on Feb. 28, both at 2 p.m. All three filmmakers will be present for the screenings.

The Parrish Art Museum’s wildly popular PechaKucha programs, each of which features rapid-fire presentations by creative East End residents, has spawned an offspring of sorts. Neoteric Night, which will happen tomorrow at 6, is a networking event focused on, but not limited to, visual artists, writers, dancers, designers, craftsmen, and anybody interested in meeting and perhaps collaborating with other creative people.

Puccini’s “Turandot,” the next offering of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series, will be shown Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Alejandro Sainz Alfonso will exhibit for the first time at the Grenning Gallery. His colorful silkscreens offer a comedic take on his life in Cuba. Marissa Bridge, whose exhibition “A Bridge in Conversation” is on view at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton through Feb. 7, will be at the gallery on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. to talk about her life and work.

The Watermill Center will offer both an open rehearsal and a tour of the grounds, building, art collection, and study library on Saturday afternoon. The tour will take place from 1 to 2:30; the rehearsal, by Kenneth Collins and Temporary Distortion, will follow from 3 to 5.

A political season with many candidates hoping to distinguish themselves in the race for their party’s nomination has created little light but a great deal of heat in American discourse. Most of the smoke of the campaign is traveling well north and west of here (the New York State federal primary election is not until April 18). Yet many artists on the South Fork and farther afield have taken note of the acrimony, and their reactions now hang at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton.

“The All Star Comedy Show” will return to Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater tomorrow at 8 p.m. with the guest comedians Kyle Grooms (“Chappelle Show,” “Last Comic Standing”), Oscar Collazos (Comedy Central, XL Sirius Radio), and Brendan Sagalow, a New York City comedy club regular. As he has for the past three years, Joseph Vecsey will host.

The graceful, whitish curves of the small ceramic bowls and cups found a gentle illumination while sitting upon a sun-drenched shelf that ran across the windowpanes of the Clay Art Studios of the Hamptons on a recent Thursday afternoon.

For its second production of the season, the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue has put “Dead Accounts” by Theresa Rebeck on the table — along with an outrageous assortment of foodstuffs. A tale filled with moral dilemmas that will have audiences debating long after they leave, the evening buzzes along quickly and smoothly, sort of like that “very special episode” of a well-loved sitcom, where something serious goes down even in the midst of the laughs.

The JDTLab, Guild Hall’s program devoted to presenting work by performing artists from the East End and, occasionally, beyond, will begin its third season on Tuesday evening at 7:30 with a free staged reading of “Extinction,” a new play by Gabe McKinley that explores the evolution of friendships. Subsequent programs will include two new musicals, a one-artist show, three plays, and an immersive deconstruction of the Andromeda myth.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present the regional premiere of “Fieldworks,” a program of seven short documentaries that explore the nature of socially engaged art, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Last week’s announcement of the Academy Award nominations for 2015 films included a number with connections to the South Fork.

Solo exhibitions by Ashley Carter and David B. Smith will be at the Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton through March 9. Christian Little examines a voyeur culture preoccupied with sex and drama at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill. A reception will happen Jan. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Sordid Lives,” a black comedy by the Texas-born writer, director, and producer Del Shores, will open this evening at 7:30 at the Southampton Cultural Center and run through Jan. 31. The play premiered in Los Angeles in 1996 and won 14 Drama-Logue Awards.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has announced that Steven Todrys has been elected chairman of its board of trustees.