DAVID S. SWANSON
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Book Review: ‘One of Them’ may read familiar
Elliott Holt’s new novel unfolds on a note that’s evocative of the Samantha Smith story.
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Calendar
Art “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. Paley Collection,” 62 works from the Paley Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, through Sept. 8; “Shangaa: Art of Tanzania,” first major exhibition in the United States to focus on the traditional arts of Tanzania, through Aug. 25, Portland Museum of Art. […]
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Society Notebook: Blooms’ day
Peonies and perfect weather mark the annual Audubon Society social.
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Mourning the loss of a true champion of the arts
Philip Isaacson’s clear voice will forever be irreplaceable, but it will never be truly gone. A half-century of articles cannot be unprinted or unread. The countless doors he opened for innumerable readers onto myriad artists, works and ideas cannot be closed. Isaacson, who died at age 89 Thursday, wrote about the arts for the Maine […]
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Ogunquit-born, ‘Cycles’ lands in Winter Harbor
WINTER HARBOR – The Schoodic Education Research Center is featuring an ambitious art installation by renowned East Coast painter George Wardlaw. The exhibit — “Cycles: Time, Light, Life” — is composed of a series of eight massive canvases inspired by Wardlaw’s visits to Ogunquit during a 24-hour solstice period in June 2000. Each canvas measures […]
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Joan Baez: Just plain folk
Ironically, it was ‘all opera and classical’ growing up for Joan Baez, who of course would go on to become perhaps the iconic singer-songwriter of her generation.
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Society Notebook: Harking ‘Mad’
The Ad Club of Maine celebrates the end of the year with a ‘Mad Men’-themed bash.
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Television: From ‘Desperate’ to ‘Devious’ with maids, not housewives
Writer Marc Cherry and actress Eva Longoria team up for a Lifetime series.
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Art Review: Environmentally tuned-in artists pay their respects to ‘Silent Spring’
I associate the George Marshall Store Gallery in York with some of the most coherently handsome gallery shows I have seen in Maine: Good art that looks good together. The venue itself is just as quirky (and cool) as you could expect of a 19th-century store overlooking Maine tidal waters. But “Silent Spring” is a […]