The biggest names on everyone’s lips this season this season are Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who’ll be at the Merrill Auditorium on Nov. 9 at 6:30 p.m. The husband-and-wife artistic team, whose large-scale installations like the “Running Fence” project in the 1970s and last spring’s “The Gates” in Central Park, have created some of the most discussed public works in the last few decades. Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be visiting to lecture on their work and promote a collection from the Wurth Museum in Germany, on display at the Portland Museum of Art from Nov. 3 to Dec. 31. The exhibition features approximately 65 of their works, covering ground that ranges from early wrapped works from the 1950s to photographs of large-scale finished public products. Tickets are $10 for PMA members and $15 for non-members. Tickets can be purchased through PortTix by calling 207-842-0800 or visiting www.porttix.com.

The Portsmouth Public Library’s Conversations With Artists series resumes on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. with a presentation by Gina Adams, who specializes in Native American “lace bead heritage” artwork. The series will continue on the second Thursday of each month, through December. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For more information, call the library at 603-427-1540, or visit www.cityofportsmouth-.com/library.

At the Haley Farm Gallery in Kittery, 10 percent of gallery profits from September’s “Diggins-Totman: Perspectives” exhibit will go to the American Red Cross to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina, according to gallery owner Jackie Abramian. Haley Farm’s October exhibit, “We All The People,” will celebrate America’s artistic diversity. At the George Marshall Gallery in York, Maine, the annual Accord exhibition will be on view from Nov. 4 through mid-December. The exhibition combines furniture from the Old York Historical Society with contemporary art.

Artwalks will continue at nearly a dozen galleries in Portsmouth (www.artroundtown.org) every second Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., as well as periodically in Newburyport (contact the Newburyport Art Association for more information, 978-465-8769).