VISUALS | Chip Hooper

The Robert Klein Gallery hosts this exhibition of startling and stark black and white seascape photographs taken by Chris Hooper. Hooper, whose work is continuously showcased nationally at galleries in New York and California, is a renowned landscape photographer who captures his love of the ocean his latest series. Through Nov. 13. Robert Klein Gallery, 38 Newbury Street. Call (617) 267-7997 for more information. (VMA)

MUSIC | Clinic

Art-rockers Clinic are a band consisting of four Liverpudlian doctors, hence the name. Their angular and icy take on indie rock has caused a splash in the underground with each of their three releases on Domino Records. Their most recent, Winchester Cathedral, shows a diverse array of influences from surf-rock to klezmer music and never fails to innovate or entertain. Tickets $15. 18+. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club. (CAK)

Wednesday, Nov. 10

THEATER | Ears on a Beatle

This intriguing tale manages to unite the tension of Nixon administration with a passion for the music of Beatle John Lennon in one play. At the center of it all are two FBI agents. Through Nov. 20. 7:30 p.m. Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street. Call (617) 437-7172 for more information. (VMA)

FILM | The Magician

The Brattle’s Ingmar Bergman festival continues with the story of a 19th century conjurer-hypnotist, played by Bergman repertory player and Exorcist priest Max Von Sydow, traveling throughout shadowy Sweden along with his troupe of repertory performers. After falling into the hands of a grand inquisitor, a doctor decides it his professional responsibility to expose Sydow as a charlatan and the two sides clash in a brilliantly evocative philosophical duel between art and science, rationality and irrationality, believer and non believer. It all climaxes in a beautifully destructive sequence that reduces the once proud doctor to his bare parts. At The Brattle Theater at 7:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. (SAW)

Thursday, Nov. 11

MUSIC | Quincy Coffeehouse