BANGOR – With the new year comes a new slate of exhibitions at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The museum opens three shows on Friday. “Fear & Play: Paintings by Jonathan Lux” explores the realist work of the New York City artist. His paintings are playful and sinister. Lux, whose […]

The Bowdoin Museum of Art is hosting 10 Old Master works from the Wadsworth Atheneum. All are great. Many are very large. And each is worthy of a long encounter. Three follow the Flemish tradition, while the others are connected to Italy — the two centers of European painting for centuries. For example, Jusepe de […]

Phippsburg residents Christopher Sewall and Mary Gibson will present the documentary film “American Outrage” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Frontier Cafe at Fort Andross Mill, Brunswick. Filmed in Nevada, the film by George and Beth Gage chronicles the ongoing struggles of the Western Shoshone sisters, Mary and Carrie Dann, to protect their homelands in […]

I recently spoke with composer Elliott Schwartz about his “Diamond Jubilee,” which will be performed by the Portland Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 25, a week after his 75th birthday. In spite of being brought up in Brooklyn and graduating from Columbia University, Schwartz might be considered a Maine composer — he taught at Bowdoin College […]

A new book by William Daicy and Don Whitney tells with great drama and detail the story of the blaze that ravaged the peninsula 125 years ago.