Mamet, Miller, Scorsese and Stones

The Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, which opens Feb. 7, bestows golden bears on its award winners and has the largest audience of any film fest. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)

Speed-the-Plow'

The Old Vic LONDON Feb. 1-April 26

Not since Clifford Odets has an important American playwright known Hollywood quite so well (or loathed it quite so much) as David Mamet has. In his 1988 satire "Speed-the-Plow" two Hollywood producers offer up a particularly dazzling array of Mametian verbal pyrotechnics focused on the struggle between commerce and culture on the Left Coast. In this new production, the producers are played by two actors with considerable experience of Hollywood themselves: Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum.

The Cut, 011-44-870-060-6628, oldvicthe atre.com.

'The Art of Lee Miller'

Philadelphia Museum of Art Through April 27

Lee Miller was definitely one of a kind. A great beauty, she became a highly successful fashion model in New York during the '20s, posing for the likes of Edward Steichen and George Hoyningen-Huene. Deciding to become a photographer, she moved to Paris to study with Man Ray, becoming his lover and frequently posing for him. She went on to become a notable photographer in her own right in New York and Egypt. During World War II, she took many striking photos in the European theater of operations. This year marks her centenary, which the Philadelphia Museum celebrates with this extensive retrospective, featuring some 150 images.

26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.

'Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art'

Kimbell Art Museum

FORT WORTH Through March 30

In the beginning was the Word, but eventually there was the image, too. "Picturing the Bible" is the first major look in more than three decades at the emergence of Christian imagery between the third and sixth centuries. The exhibition includes items from the Louvre, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Vatican. Among those items are frescoes, sculptures, sarcophagi, reliquaries, carvings, and illustrated Bibles.

3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817-332-8451, kimbellart.org.

58th Berlin International Film Festival

Feb. 7-17 Sundance kicks off the film festival season in the United States, and Berlin does so in Europe. The Berlinale, as the festival is commonly known, attracts about 20,000 movie professionals and screens upward of 350 films. With ticket sales annually approaching 200,000, it has the largest audience of any film festival. Highlighting this year's event are the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary, "Shine a Light," with both director and band scheduled to attend, and a lifetime achievement award to Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi.

Potsdamer Strasse 5, 011-49-30-259-200, berlinale.de/en.

'Jasper Johns: Gray'

Metropolitan Museum of Art NEW YORK Feb. 5-May 4

The most austere of all Pop artists (if he can even be called a Pop artist), Jasper Johns has long been drawn to the color gray. This exhibition, which previously ran at the Art Institute of Chicago, is the first to examine the role that gray has played in Johns' work, formally and thematically as well as chromatically, going back to 1955. It includes some 130 works by the artist, among them paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

1000 Fifth Ave. at 82d Street, 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Events are sometimes canceled, rescheduled, or sold out; call or check online to confirm. Mark Feeney can be reached at mfeeney@globe.com.