Arts

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs is featuring artists from Eastern Europe who bucked the conventions and limitations imposed by their Communist lead­ers to create their own version of Abstract Expressionism.

By the time the Hamptons International Film Festival is over on Monday, it will have screened 65 features and 50 short films. With so much to choose from and many films in competition, a small cross section of reviews and previews follows.

Over a plate of clams on the half shell at Gosman's Top Side, Jack Douglas shared epic tales of musical genius, and sometimes madness, working on albums by artists such as John Lennon and Aerosmith as a producer at the Record Plant Studios in New York.

Two screenings of the classic 1920 German horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” accompanied by a live improvised score by the Dave Harrington Group, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday at 7 p.m. and Monday at 2 p.m.

The Rising Stars piano series at the Southampton Cultural Center will open its fall season with a concert by Igor Lovchinsky on Saturday at 7 p.m. The recital will include works by Bach, Chopin, Wild, and Gershwin.

The Salon Series of concerts by young, award-winning classical musicians will open its 10th iteration at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by the pianist Fei-Fei Dong.

A show of photographs by Nancy Breakstone, will open at Grain Surfboards in Amagansett on Saturday. A sale of paintings by Paton Miller and sculpture by the late Don Saco to benefit the Southampton Cultural Center, will be held on Sunday. Mari Rantanen and Bonnie Rychlak will show work at Ille Arts in Amagansett beginning Saturday.

Bruce Wolosoff's musical composition “The Astronomer’s Key” will premiere at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday. It will then be presented on Oct. 15 in Medford, Mass., in the Distler Concert Hall at Tufts University.

Last week’s sale of Edward Albee’s collection of art and decorative objects at Sotheby’s in Manhattan broke records for many of the artists involved. It was a rare “white glove sale,” meaning all 105 lots sold, and the auction raised $12.5 million to support the Edward F. Albee Foundation, which provides residencies for writers and visual artists in Montauk, where the playwright lived part time.

Katherine C.H.E., an Amagansett singer and songwriter has collaborated with Bakithi Kumalo, a South African Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer on a new song with an interactive component.

Ned Rifkin interviewed Andrea Grover on Saturday at the Amagansett Library. He started off the exchange with a rapid-fire series of questions, presented here.

“You’ll see things you’ve never seen done in the water before,” Jace Panebianco said of his new action water sport film, “Paradigm Lost.”

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will host a benefit concert to raise money for hurricane victims around the country on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman has helped organize and will M.C. the event, which will include music by Joe Lauro and the HooDoo Loungers, Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, and other groups to be announced.

Royce Weatherly is a fellow at the Watermill Center, one of the early recipients of a grant from Inga Maren Otto that established a fellowship for visual art.

Dan Welden, a master printer, painter, and educator, will conduct a one-hour demonstration in total silence next Thursday at 7 p.m., at the Golden Eagle barn on North Main Street in East Hampton. “Under the Surface,” an exhibition of photographs by Michele Dragonetti from her “Boat Hulls” series, will open tomorrow at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton and continue through Oct. 29. A reception will be held on Oct. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Two Watermill Center artists-in-residence, Lilian Colosso and Lua Rivera, will present their work on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. as part of the center’s “In Process” series, which encourages engagement between the residents and the community.

Itzhak Perlman, who has a celebrity status that is rare for a classical musician, is the subject of a new documentary that will be premiered at the opening of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Music will fill the air starting tonight and going though Sunday as the Sag Harbor American Music Festival celebrates seven years of presenting established and up-and-coming artists to residents and visitors to the village.

After a three-year hiatus, the 11th annual Artist Birdhouse Auction will take place on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Union Cantina in Southampton. It will benefit Lucia’s Angels and the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital in their fight against breast cancer.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for its Dec. 3 concert beginning Monday evening.

“What if the Victorians had access to digital technology? What would it look like?" It's a question that guides the artists of Steampunk, some of whose work is on view at the Southampton Arts Center.

Kenny Mann's “Naisula — A Prayer for a White Woman, Her African Servant, a Shaman, and a Spirit Child,” an epic poem, will be staged for a performance at Guild Hall on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the venue’s JDT Lab.

Although Alfonso Ossorio, and then Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, receive all the credit for starting the midcentury modernist art colony in East Hampton, a group of European émigrés actually preceded them during and just after World War II.

“The Watery Owl of Minerva,” a live multi-projection and sound performance by Optipus will take place outdoors at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Sixties Show, a band known for its impeccable, note-for-note recreations of the hits, B-sides, and deep cuts from the 1960s, will return to Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Next up at Ashawagh Hall in Springs is the fourth exhibition by Hamptons Project, a group consisting of Dennis Bontempo, Brian Monahan, Michael Monahan, Christina Friscia, Raul Lagos, and Richard Mothes. “Jeremy Dennis: East Hampton Indigenous” will be on view at Guild Hall from Friday, Sept. 29, through Dec. 12. The exhibition features photographs of East Hampton landscapes that have significant archeological, historical, and sacred meaning to the Shinnecock and Montaukett tribes native to the East End.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will bring three new programs inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” to Guild Hall this weekend, starting tomorrow night at 7:30 with “Wonderland,” the troupe’s 18th production, which explores the balance of power in a utopian world inhabited by Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and many other denizens of Lewis Carroll’s wondrous creation. “Wonderland” will also be performed on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

By the time it closes on Oct. 9, the Hamptons International Film Festival will have screened 65 feature and 50 short films from 40 countries.

Two free a cappella performances will take place this weekend at the Montauk Library. Tomorrow evening at 7:30, the Chickpeas, a quintet consisting of Liz Sarfati, Marcia Previti, Lisa Shaw, Deb Coen, and Jane Hastay, will perform a program of traditional and popular songs by composers ranging from Harold Arlen to Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne to Bob Dylan.

Queen Esther Marrow has performed for Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton; Pope John Paul II, and in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s World Crusade, a series of civil rights rallies. Her next stop is the Southampton Cultural Center.