Harper’s Gallery has paintings and ceramics by three artists whose moody, complex works “straddle an axis of abstract and recognizable imagery.”

Strong stories by four female playwrights will have staged readings in Bay Street Theater’s New Works Festival.

The Art Center at Duck Creek will open with geometric wooden abstract paintings by Don Christensen, and ritualistic sculptural groupings by Brianna L. Hernandez.

Parrish Art Museum marks its 125th year with invigorated curatorial and administrative leadership, naming Corinne Erni chief curator of art and education as it enters a global dialogue.