Silence your cellphone. Logoff Twitter and Facebook. Summer is all about long, lazy days and getting lost in a book.
Arts & Entertainment
Hartley’s Dogtown has its day at exhibit
A new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum offers insight into one of Maine’s most beloved modernist painters.
CMCA birthday bash a razzle-dazzler
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It’s celebratory exhibit is both beautiful and innovative.
Audience Calendar
Art “From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France,” paintings, drawings and letters, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through July 15. “Hang 10 with the Maine 10,” 10 women artists, Damariscotta River Grill, Damariscotta. damariscottarivergrill.com. Through June 11. “Show and Tell,” paintings, drawings and sculpture by children and teens with autism, Children’s […]
Arts Planner
After a successful run last year, Portland Stage Company decided it would be smart to bring back the play “2 Pianos 4 Hands.”
New book looks at Maine mothers who kill their children
Sarah Whitton of Alfred chloroformed her 3-week-old infant and threw her in the river.
ART REVIEW: Furniture-related art: Clever craftsmen reach new heights
One of the semi-secret art gems in Portland is the Coleman Burke Gallery window on Congress Street. While rather small and even dingy, it inevitably contains excellent art installations.
Dine Out Maine: Cuisine, setting combine for superb experience at Bresca
Nothing about Bresca is big or brash. But what an outsized presence it has in Portland’s food scene.
Performing Arts Festival to blow the lid off the Arts District
If you live in Portland, you might want to plan to stay in town the last three days of June and the first day of July.
‘Snow White’ has more style than substance
Give credit, at least, for a clever concept: “Snow White and the Huntsman” filters a classic fairy tale through the prism of a modern, special-effects driven, action-powered blockbuster, an idea so seemingly inevitable that it’s a surprise no one has quite done it before. (Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film “The Brothers Grimm” presumably was trying for […]