PORTLAND — Lois Dodd is best known for painting the world around her, from her apartment windows in New York City to the woods and gardens of Maine and New Jersey. The Portland Museum of Art opens a new exhibition, “Lois Dodd: Catching the Light,” next week that explores the career of the painter and […]
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Niche Carved
Dorothy Schwartz has spent her artistic career refining her skill as a maker of prints – especially woodcuts. A retrospective of that work goes up at the Maine Jewish Museum.
Book Review: Lives of affliction, tempered by resolve
Be prepared for a powerful rendition of the African-American experience.
Bob Keyes: Every picture will tell a story
Summer is for reading, but Maine winters seem particularly hospitable for ordering our thoughts and committing them to paper. It’s a season of staying home, stoking the fire and accomplishing some serious writing. The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance gives us incentive to sharpen our pencils this winter with summer reading in mind. The alliance […]
Movie: Directors struggle to find ‘The end’
Even with Oscar nominees, movie goers seem more and more to be leaving the theater confused and/or frustrated.
Calendar
Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. “The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine,” exploring the artistic relationship between Homer and the architect John Calvin Stevens and the early years of the Portland Society […]
Art Review: Bullish on wide-ranging display of pioneering women’s work at UNE
“Maine Women Pioneers III: Homage” is a fascinating show for myriad reasons. For starters, it not only gives a preview of Lois Dodd (born 1927) before her major solo show opens at the Portland Museum of Art later this month, it puts Dodd in the context of some of her finest contemporaries — 12 other […]
Competitiors: Walmart ads deceptive
Best Buy and Toys R Us have filed complaints in several states alleging that Walmart Stores deceived consumers in price comparison ads. The ads aired from late November to mid-December, according to Toys R Us. Sales in the two months account for 20 percent to 40 percent of U.S. retailers’ annual revenue, the National Retail […]
This twin stayed home
After 20 years, a vacuum breaks and a woman wonders if she should go visit her world-traveling sister.
Michael Cuzzi: Washington’s partisan dysfunction a cautionary tale for Augusta
Maine’s leaders must stay focused on action and results, and call their ideological wings to heel.