Right now, Space Gallery is arguably Portland’s most vibrantly pulsing arts organization. Despite ostensibly lean times, Space has been mounting ever-stronger exhibitions of visual art. At the moment, the multi-purpose gallery/performance venue has four challenging and interesting exhibitions. Carly Glovinski’s window installation, “X-Ray (Space)” has a very different flavor from her previous, highly camouflaged show […]
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Smithsonian to exhibit Portland metalsmith’s artwork
Jeffrey Clancy’s reputation in the craft-art world just gained a substantial amount of weight, thanks to his inclusion in the prestigious exhibition.
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Art Review: Collages and constructions form a fine ‘Confluence’
Noriko Sakanishi’s “Confluence” at June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland features two bodies of work: Her system-oriented wall constructions and her exquisitely intimate collages. And while Sakanishi’s painting-logic sculptures are her most ambitious work, her collages are more complex, striking and humanistic. The collages are small, float-framed squares comprising elements of her drawings, paintings, constructions and […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls and returned often to Maine in her later life. Though her output was small, her brief lyrics are some of the most beautiful in American literature.
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Movie review: ‘Dark Skies’ chills but lacks thrills
The standard-issue alien abduction thriller gains a few paranormal touches and a taste of the living dead in “Dark Skies,” a sometimes hair-raising riff on all the “Communions” that have come before. It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the […]
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Dine Out Maine: White Barn Inn’s bistro puts high-end spin on comfort food
For the sake of argument, let’s say that cost isn’t an issue when you are choosing a place to eat this month. You have heard wonderful things about grand chef Jonathan Cartwright’s prix fixe menu at the White Barn Inn in Kennbunk Beach. That haute dinner experience has been reviewed in these pages (to a […]
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Grownups to movie studios: If it’s worth it, we will come
Older moviegoers are turning out in big numbers for non-popcorn fare. Lesson learned?
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Book Review: ‘Bailey’ a fine Revolutionary War-era biography
The title of James S. Leamon’s superb new biography, “The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist: For God, King, Country and For Self,” is accurate, though the word order of the subtitle may be open to rearrangement for some. Parson Bailey (1731-1808) always held himself in high esteem, but almost certainly would have liked the subtitle […]
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Young artists show what they can do
In celebration of National Youth Art Month in March, the Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Art Education Association are teaming up to present artwork by students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The exhibition, on view through March 31 at the museum, showcases more than 100 works by students throughout the state. This year […]
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Calendar
Art Lisa Dombek, mixed media/white series, Katie Made Bakery, Portland. 771-0994. Through March 30. Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19, Portland Museum of Art. […]