Albertini Presents “Stuffed”

    Sydney Albertini will present “Stuff­ed and Other Feelings . . .” at Ille Arts in Amagansett beginning Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

    According to Ms. Albertini, the show is about “four feelings that work in pairs and as a whole.” “Stuffed,” which occupies its own room, is a giant blue soft sculpture with “feelings of gratitude represented by embroidered pillows.” The artist asks, “Can gratitude be trivialized?”

    In another room, sculpture and photographic portrayals of animal-like creatures show how it feels to be limited in emotional expression, particularly love. The exhibition questions whether too much of anything, even something good for us, can be harmful. It will remain on view through June 3.

Two Decades of Louise Peabody

    Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton is presenting “Twenty Years: A Retrospective of Louise Peabody’s Work” through May 19, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

    The artist describes her work as “emotional narratives that explore the unseen — a subtle world of psychic energy.” That may sound abstract, but the subject matter, sometimes murky or hazy, is recognizable.

    Ms. Peabody’s paintings are in public and private collections, including those of the Portland Museum of Art and the University of New England in Portland, Maine; the Century Association and the National Arts Club in Manhattan, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.

“Intuitive Details”

    “Intuitive Details,” works by Jon Mulhern, will be on view at 4 North Main Gallery in Southampton through Tuesday, with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. The show, of 17 paintings and sculptures that explore the South Fork as a fresh new environment for the artist, will have viewing hours by appointment.

    Mr. Mulhern is an art teacher at the Ross School who grew up in Maryland and lived in Brooklyn before moving to Bridgehampton two years ago. 

Benefit at Demato

    The Richard Demato Gallery in Sag Harbor will host “Loyal Subjects,” an exhibition featuring animals, to benefit the Southampton Animal Shelter. An opening reception will take place on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

    The entire gallery will be devoted to animals, including rabbits, dogs, piglets, and more, from graphite sketches to formal oil paintings and photography. The show follows an open call to the artistic community to contribute something at different price points, beginning at $500, to help the shelter raise money to help find homes for its charges. It will remain on view through May 30.

Carone at Pollock-Krasner

    The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs has opened for the season with “Nicolas Carone: The East Hampton Years.”

    The show features nine paintings by Carone, who was an intimate of the group of artists who found their way out to Springs in the 1950s. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, some of the earliest, encouraged their friends and acquaintances from the city to join them here. Carone, who had been working in Italy through the 1940s and returned to the United States in 1951, became convinced to buy property on Three Mile Harbor Road. He and Pollock bonded over their stylistic affinities as well as their Jungian approaches to their compositions.

    Carone died in 2010. The exhibition will remain on view through July 27. Pollock-Krasner is open by appointment in May and will resume regular hours in June.

   Toby and Itzhak Perlman and young artists of the Perlman Music Program will return to Shelter Island for concerts this weekend.

    On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., an alumni recital will feature Christine Lamprea, cello, and Hannah Shields, piano, with a program of Bach, Beethoven, Penderecki, and Prokofiev. Both musicians are graduates of the program’s chamber music workshop, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary season this summer. Ms. Lamprea, who is Columbian-American, recently won the Sphinx Competition for young black and Latino string players.

    Advance tickets, $20, can be purchased at perlmanmusicprogram.org.  The cost at the door is $25; $10 for those 18 and under. Tickets include a meet-the-artist reception after the performance.

    Sunday’s 3 p.m. “works in progress” concert, which is free, features current Perlman students and classical masterworks. R.S.V.P.s have been requested at 212-877-5045 or by e-mail to [email protected]. 

    Both events will take place at the Kristy and James H. Clark Arts Center at 73 Shore Road.

   Amber Liao, a classical pianist, will perform at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The concert, which is free, will include masterworks by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and Daniel­pour.

    Ms. Liao has given recitals and solo performances throughout the United States and abroad, including recent engagements at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Her recording of works by Schumann, Beethoven, and Granados was recently released on the MSR Classics label.

   Alan Alda, the actor, director, writer, and educator, was honored on April 24 at the Stony Brook Foundation’s annual fund-raising event, held at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. The benefit raised more than $4 million, which will help pay for the university’s new Center for Communicating Science.

    The university’s president, Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., announced to the 750 guests at the event, among them the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Dr. Eric Kandel, that the building will henceforth be known as the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.

   Robert Wood will lead a night sky photography workshop for adults and children 12 and up on Saturday at 8 p.m., at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.

    According to Mr. Wood, the night sky reveals a hidden pattern, as predictable and consistent as sunrise and sunset, which can be viewed through the lens of time-lapse photography. Participants are instructed to bring a tripod and either a digital single-lens reflex camera with bulb mode or a 35-millimeter camera with a cable release. Those without equipment will still be welcome to take notes on the technique and see some of Mr. Wood’s own work.

    The weather-dependent workshop is free to museum members, $7 for adults, and $3 for children 12 and under. Enrollment is limited and advance reservations are necessary.

   Guild Hall and the Naked Stage will present three staged readings on Tuesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Boots Lamb Education Center. On tap are “WHOA!” by Lisa Bonner, “From Ship to Shape: An Excerpt” by Walker Vreeland, and “At the Bar” by Hortense Carpentier.

    Ms. Bonner’s and Mr. Vreeland’s pieces are excerpts from one-person shows they are developing. Ms. Carpentier’s is a short comedy featuring Lydia Franco Hodges, Peter Fitzgerald, Joshua Perl, and Josh Gladstone. Anne Seelbach will read stage directions. There will be no intermission, just a short break between sets.

    Artists of all disciplines may apply to the Watermill Center now for residency slots in 2014, from January through June or September through December. The deadline is June 12 at 5 p.m.; selected artists will be notified in August.

    The center will host four information sessions for prospective applicants, two in Water Mill and two at its Manhattan studio. The sessions in the city happen at 2 p.m. today and at 6 p.m. on May 30 on the 10th floor at 115 West 29 Street. Sessions at the center are on May 21 at 6:30 p.m. and May 28 at 5 p.m.

    Details about the program and application guidelines are available at watermillcenter.org/programs/residencies. 

   Hamptons Take 2 will present an evening with the documentary filmmaker Roger Sherman tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, at which the half-hour film “Zapruder & Stolley: Witness to an Assassination” will be shown, its first showing in New York State.

    The evening also includes a screening of “Alexander Calder,” a 60-minute film on the life and work of the American kinetic sculptor.

    “Zapruder & Stolley” focuses on one of the most studied films ever made by an amateur photographer, Abraham Zapruder, as President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, telling the story of Richard Stolley, then the Dallas bureau chief for Life magazine, who raced to the scene and obtained the rights to reprint the stills.

    “Alexander Calder,” narrated by Tony Roberts, had its world premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art and won an Emmy Award as part of the PBS “American Masters” series. It shows Calder at work in his Connecticut studio and features archival footage of films, photos, and many of the artist’s mobiles in dynamic motion.

    Tickets are $15 at the door. More information can be found at HT2FF.com or baystreet.org.

    Question-and-answer sessions with Mr. Sherman, who has a house in East Moriches, will follow each film.

    You think you know Caroline Doctorow? “Something Pulls Me to You,” the opening track of the singer-songwriter’s new album, leaves behind flowery folk for Hank Williams lonesome. Backed by the loping twang of Pete Kennedy’s guitar, it calls to mind hunched patrons at a late-night New Mexico roadside diner, nursing their sorrows as much as their coffee cups.

   “I am a lovesick fool,” the speaker laments, making plain that she’s not giving up on her obsession: “My will is just the dust underneath the wheels of a wrong turn / And losing is just the closing of the day.” Caution? “Just a highway sign rolling by too fast.”

   “This one’s more Americana,” Ms. Doctorow said of the album, “Little Lovin’ Darling,” due out this summer. “People listen to music differently now,” picking and choosing a song here and there to download. This saddens her, as a fan of the long-playing album, and yet in a way frees her. “For the first time I didn’t even think of a theme.”

   Her most recent releases have them, or, better yet, were concept albums. Last year she came out with a Mary McCaslin retrospective, “I Carry All I Own,” and before that were albums exploring the lives of the ’60s folk singers Richard and Mimi Farina: “Carmel Valley Ride,” “a song cycle about them from an outsider’s perspective,” as she put it, and a remarkably well-received collection of their songs, “Another Country.”

   With the new release, “I thought each song could be like a mini opera, in a way. Each song could stand alone.” Music fans can embrace the cultural atomization, as they increasingly have to do, or, for an old-fashioned live show, there’s the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett tomorrow at 8 p.m., where, with her band, the Steamrollers, she’ll be performing on a bill with the folk rock duo the Kennedys — Pete, the guitarist who produced “Little Lovin’ Darling,” and Maura.

    In spite of the pining heart that opens the disc, “I wanted a happier album,” Ms. Doctorow said, “which means a stronger back beat, and that leads to Americana.”

    Her pursuit of happiness, though, led her across the pond, to one of the sunniest musicians around. Some of her songs are “very Donovan-inspired,” she said — “Cactus Flower,” for one, a chiming jaunt through the desert: “Listen closely to the kaleidoscope sound / Rainbow colors all around.”

    “I don’t have a rock ’n’ roll voice,” she said of the suitability of the Scottish troubadour’s music. “I’ve always loved Donovan, but he was overshadowed by Bob Dylan.” (As the Sag Harbor filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary, “Don’t Look Back,” famously attests.)

    The show tomorrow night, tickets to which cost $15, will be a friendly affair, with each performer sitting in with the other. Ms. Doctorow’s collaborations with the Kennedys, Nanci Griffith’s backup band, date to 2008, when she recruited them for “Another Country.”

    “There was no retrospective of Richard Farina’s work,” Ms. Doctorow said, which was surprising given his fame and influence. He died in a motorcycle accident in California in 1966. He was all of 29 years old and had written a novel, “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me,” that ranks with Jeremy Larner’s “Drive, He Said” among the better documents of the era and college life at the time.

    Mimi Farina, however, Joan Baez’s younger sister, lived until 2001, and one of the elements of her life that interested Ms. Doctorow was the way she watched her dead husband become slowly mythologized.

    In working on that project, the Kennedys lived for a month in a recording studio, Narrow Lane Studios, in an outbuilding on Ms. Doctorow’s property in Bridgehampton. “I had never met them.” Ms. Doctorow has two daughters. “We all got along so well.”

    They’ll be going separate ways for the summer, with the Kennedys touring Europe and Ms. Doctorow moving on to bigger venues, among them a 500-seater on July 14 in Chautauqua upstate.

    The Parrish Art Museum will host a spring cultural celebration on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Originally scheduled for February but preempted by a storm, the event honors the diverse heritages represented on the East End. Groups from the area will perform traditional folk dances and music throughout the afternoon.

    Scheduled to perform are Danni Medina, Grupo Folklorico Xochipilli, the Kalikay Group’s Andean Music, the Kildare Academy of Irish Dance, the Shinnecock Thunderbird Singers and Dancers, and the Tewa Marimba Ensemble from the Bridgehampton School. Activities will also include family art workshops and tours of the museum.

    The event is included in the price of museum admission, which is $10 for adults and $8 for senior citizens. Members get in free. Advance reservations have been recommended.