Arts

“Avedon’s America,” images that reflect the unflagging interest of one man in the faces that defined the country and its values for more than half a century, will soon grace Guild Hall’s galleries with a gala opening tied to its annual benefit on Aug. 11.

The Jazz on the Terrace series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will welcome back the Hendrik Meurkens Quartet, which appeared at the museum two summers ago, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Mr. Meurkens, a harmonica and vibraphone virtuoso who is a regular of the New York City jazz scene, is acclaimed for his mastery of Brazilian jazz. Reared in Germany, he lived in Rio de Janeiro for 10 years and immersed himself in the country’s music styles.

He will be joined by Misha Tsiganov on piano, Gustavo Amarante on bass, and Rogerio Boccato on drums. Tickets are $12, free for members.

“About Face,” an exhibition of work by 70 artists presented by the New York Academy of Art, will open tomorrow at the Southampton Arts Center with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 17.

In “Take Every Wave,” Rory Kennedy captures the surfer Laird Hamilton’s devil-may-care attitude and his aquatic accomplishments. It will be screened Aug. 4 at Gurney’s.

Mandy Gonzalez and the Bacon Brothers will perform in coming days at Guild Hall.

The Watermill Center’s annual summer lecture series provides a platform for accomplished workers in every imaginable field to share the cutting-edge ideas that shape their work. This year’s talks begin on Tuesday and continue through Aug. 17.

A barn show, a road show, four studio tours and new shows at Roman Fine Art, Romany Kramoris, Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, and The Art Barge, are all on tap for this week.

Comedy for a Cause, an evening of dinner, drinks, and a comedy show hosted by Felicia Madison, will take place on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. Four comedians, Jocelyn Chia, Clayton Fletcher, Nancy Lombardo, and Erin Maguire, will round out the program, which is a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Tickets are $185 and can be purchased in advance at feliciamadison. com.

With a wide span of years and no real focus, the show “Moving Targets: American Art From 1918 to 2012” is as rambling as its title suggests. Still, it has enough standout pieces to make it worth a look.

Alec Baldwin and Harris Yulin will star in a staged reading of “Gross Points” on Tuesday at 8 p.m. and Tovah Feldshuh and Richard Kind will headline a reading of “Assisted Loving” on Friday, July 28, also at 8.

“Barney’s Wall,” a new documentary about Barney Rosset, the Grove Press and Evergreen Review publisher who successfully waged battles against censorship and introduced to American readers such writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet, will be shown at Guild Hall next Thursday.

Not satisfied with one house, this year the Hampton Designer Showhouse, which benefits Southampton Hospital, will feature two next-door houses in a new subdivision to the west of Southampton Village.

The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will take a break from its music programs on Wednesday evening.

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,” the poet laureate Robert Southey informed Charlotte Bronte when she sent him her poems, along with her sibling Anne’s writing, to critique. The Brontes went on, quite efficiently, to make it their business.

Who better to consider the question “Is fashion art?” than Valerie Steele, a writer, fashion historian, and director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Dr. Steele will do so at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. in a talk that will explore how the exhibition of fashion in museums has blurred the line between art and fashion and how fashion designers, curators, and critics weigh in on the subject. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. Tickets are $12, free for members and students.

Janice Friedman, a jazz pianist and vocalist, and Marco Panascia, a bassist, will perform a program of jazz standards and original songs in a free concert at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

“An Evening With Lorna Luft,” a new show from the acclaimed stage, screen, and television actress and vocalist, will take place Monday evening at 8 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor as part of its Music Mondays cabaret series.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival kicks off its month-long, 13-concert series on July 30 with a program of music by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann, in a composer portrait called “Love, Genius, Madness,” narrated by Alan Alda.

“Summer Roses: The Gypsy Girl and the Nightingale,” an hourlong concert of music by Spanish composers, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane on Sunday at 5 p.m.

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will present “Long Island Landscapes,” a group show organized by Peter J. Marcelle, from Saturday through Aug. 1, with a reception set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. “The Girl Next Door” will open Saturday at the RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. A benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an organization dedicated to serving L.G.B.T.Q. youth, the show will run through Aug. 13.

By any measure Johannes Brahms was an “Old Master” and it was with his German Requiem, that musical salve for human suffering in the face of death that the Choral Society of the Hamptons, joined by the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra, closed its 2016-2017 concert season on Saturday in the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

On Sunday at 7 p.m., Dennis Elsas will present “Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets,” a multimedia show featuring highlights from his interviews with rock ’n’ roll royals, at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

If you are among those who are frustrated by the crowds and noise of summer (and who isn’t?) the East Hampton Historical Society exhibition now at Clinton Academy offers a chance to reflect on simpler times.

Race and matrimony are at the heart of “Intimate Apparel,” a 2003 play by Lynn Nottage in revival now through July 30 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The Platform series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill provides an occasion for individual artists to consider the entire museum over a period of months as a location for interdisciplinary artworks and installations.

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of the third Hamptons Plein Air invitational from tomorrow through July 23. Twenty-one artists will not only participate in the exhibition but also paint outdoors daily at locations in East Hampton and Springs. The East End Photographers Group’s summer exhibition will open at the Water Mill Museum with a reception next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. and continue through Aug. 13.

Yung Jake Patterson is bringing his emoji.ink paintings to the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton.

Guild Hall has a lively week ahead, with performances by the internationally acclaimed Pilobolus Dance Theater, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and vocalist Bebe Neuwirth, the classical musicians Boyd Meets Girl, and a talk by Misty Copeland, a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater.

Via Brooklyn will present "The 39 Steps," which spoofs Hitchcock’s murder mystery with a cast of four playing more than 50 characters, along with fast changes, shadow puppets, fog machines, projections, questionable accents, and moustaches.

The Montauk Library will present “What’s All That Jazz About?” on Wednesday evening at 7:30.