A critical look back at Maine art in 2011 and a view of 2012.

In our first poem of the new year, Thomas Moore of Brooksville looks back on the risks he and his friends once took as they glided over the ice holding ropes behind a Plymouth in the dark. Note how Moore imitates the dangers he describes with long sentences that turn sharply at line breaks and […]

NEW YORK – Meryl Streep shuffles down a London street wearing a kerchief, a drab beige overcoat and enough prosthetic wrinkles to pass as an octogenarian in the opening scene of her new movie about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady.” For Streep, shooting the sequence provided a jarring taste of a […]

South Portland photographer Jonathan M. Dunitz exhibits a series of photographs of old and abandoned vehicles in a show titled “Forgotten Transport,” opening Friday at Blue, 605A Congress St., Portland. Dunitz portrays the vehicles in full color, while desaturating the background to appear black and white. The process gives the vehicles a ghost-like appearance. Dunitz […]

Ah, the things we see, or know of, and roundly ignore, or sometimes confront in the pursuit of our own happiness. The things we say about “others” in the heat of the moment. In everyday chit-chat, we hear it, we say it, and we hardly give it a thought. In his incisive new book, “Less […]