The Owen and Anna Wells gift is a significant acquisition for the Portland Museum of Art.

Since January is a month for new year’s resolutions, we begin 2014 with a poem by Richard Blanco of Bethel about a resolution.

• ART Amy Stacey Curtis, nine video projections, each an exploration of movement in time and space, via the motif of a walk in the woods. Through January 5. $10. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square Plaza. portlandmuseum.org. “Redacted,” paintings and drawings by Ahmed Alsoudani, Iraqi artist and MECA graduate. Through Feb. 2. Portland […]

According to the old expression, seeing is believing. But in this week’s hopeful poem for the new year, Robert Chute of Poland Spring shows that believing can be seeing.