Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. Maine Art Gallery Artists Exhibit, art depicting the open road and beyond, Atlantic Motorcar, Wiscasset. 882-7511. Through Oct. 30. Frederick Lynch and James Linehan, “Geometry Meets Nature,” Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor. littlefieldgallery.com. Through Oct. 15. “Continuing […]

“Americanitis comes from an intense desire to git thar and an awful fear that you cannot.” — From the Philistine, New York Times, 1897 Do you suffer from Americanitis? San Francisco artist Alison Pebworth’s traveling show of paintings and more — “Beautiful Possibility,” currently at Space Gallery in Portland — can help you with that […]

“Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters,” a handsomely produced volume introduced and edited by seasoned Civil War scholars James McPherson and Maine’s own Thomas Desjardin, provides some 250 previously unpublished communications relating to the state’s most celebrated fighting general. They are nicely annotated, indexed and backed by fine illustrations. The bulk of the letters […]

The Oscar-winning animated feature “Finding Nemo” doesn’t need to fish for compliments: Newly rereleased in 3-D, the 9-year-old Disney/ Pixar marvel about a single-father clown fish searching for his son is a welcome sight on the big screen, where you can feel the undiminished immensity of the ocean and the bulk of a whale in […]

My husband and I discovered Robert’s Maine Grill in Kittery on Labor Day as we traveled back from Massachusetts. We were looking for a place to eat along Route 1, contentedly driving in the opposite direction of backed-up tourists. But some of those drivers had the same idea — out-of-state cars took up half the […]

Celebrating the marriage of business and the arts at a gala party in Portland, Maine Creative Industries bestows its inaugural award on actress Glenn Close and her real-life husband, Idexx founder David Shaw.

Some shows strike me as compulsory, and they get reviewed. Others strike me as major efforts of their type, and they get reviewed too. A third category offers me personal enhancement, and I sometimes write about them. A final group floats in from out of the blue. Catalogs, announcements, requests and notes from informed people […]

Art “Addiction to Perfection,” encaustic paint and mixed media by Kimberly Curry and graphite on paper by Jeanne Titherington, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fishgallery.com. Through Oct. 27. Frederick Lynch and James Linehan, “Geometry Meets Nature,” Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor. littlefieldgallery.com. Through Oct. 15. “Continuing Connections,” Michael Alpert, orchard photographs, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle. turtlegallery.com. Through Oct. […]