Arts & Entertainment

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October 16, 2011

Book Review: Tales of loss don’t bog down in sorrow

Sebastian Barry's latest novel shows a high level of finely wrought empathy.
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October 16, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Tavern at Brunswick Station rewards the inn crowd

Town residents watched with interest as the Inn at Brunswick Station, a 52-room hotel, went up last spring directly across from the historic and prominent First Parish Church and just steps from the Bowdoin College campus. How could the edifice possibly fit into the small lot at this major intersection where a senior center stood? […]
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October 16, 2011

Two concerts launch MSO’s new season

BRUNSWICK — The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra begins its 2011-2012 Topsham season at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at Orion Performing Arts Center at Mount Ararat Middle School. Music Director Rohan Smith leads the orchestra. The program is designed to provoke passion, laughter and melancholy with Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” […]
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October 16, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show featuring blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramics and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. Through Oct. 30. “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States,” drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints, […]
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October 9, 2011

Art Review: A mother lode of subversive feminine energy

Two of the most important works of art in American history were propaganda images by Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. Revere’s famous engraving of the Boston Massacre had no equal in fanning the flames of outrage throughout the colonies. Franklin printed his image of a severed snake (the inspiration for the Gadsden flag) with the […]

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October 9, 2011

Arts Dispatches

Three marine artists’ works chosen to show across U.S. The works of three Maine artists have been selected for the American Society of Marine Artists’ 15th National Exhibition. Linda Norton’s watercolor painting “Topmast, 1812 Privateer Lynx,” Gordon Bok’s woodcarving “Carrier and Seiner” and Loretta Krupinski’s oil painting “Moon Over the Peapod” were among hundreds of […]
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October 9, 2011

Arts Planner

In Lewiston, The Public Theatre opens its 21st season with the comic adventure “Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne and adapted by Mark Brown. It opens Friday and runs through Oct. 23. Five actors portray 39 characters who travel seven continents. Audiences will join Phileas Fogg and his faithful French servant as […]
Published
October 9, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. Paintings by Lea Peterson, The Bakery, Damariscotta. 563-2867. Through Nov. 30. “John Marin: Modernism at Mid-century,” with work from Marin’s career between 1870 and 1953, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Ends Monday. “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty […]
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October 9, 2011

In the Arts: De Sinety’s Poilley photographs strike a delicate balance

One of the few perks that go with writing this column is an occasional pre-publication catalog. An early arrival can set the tone for an ensuing show. It can suggest things to look for and spare the reading of wall texts. (Extensive wall texts account for more reduction of my gallery energy than the art […]
Published
October 9, 2011

Book Review: Family quest a tense thriller

A search for a relative in Somalia is full of danger, risk and uncertainty.

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