THOMASTON — Frost Gully Gallery, 150 Main St., will present an exhibition of figure paintings by Saco artist Janet C. Manyan and recent still-life and landscape paintings by Sharon Yates, who lives in Lubec. The exhibition runs from Saturday through May 19. Manyan and Yates have dual careers as painters and teachers – Manyan at […]

For younger Americans, Facebook is a fully integrated aspect of normal social life. Yet for many others, the viral logic that makes social media so pervasive is precisely the thing that makes it seem so alien. As I grew up, there were three television stations – the three networks – and Americans mostly watched the […]

ART “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through May 28 Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Ends today. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic […]

PROPEL attracts both a big crowd and a speaker with a familiar name for its party to open nominations for the Entreverge entrepreneur awards.

THIS WEEK The Maine State Museum in Augusta will celebrate Maine’s role in the evolution of the board game when it hosts an illustrated talk, “Milton Bradley and the Checkered Game of Life,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. David Richards, interim director of the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, will talk about the […]

Art “A Thickening Rhythm,” five artists, various media, installation and performance, Coleman Burke Gallery (Fort Andross), Brunswick. colemanburke.com. Through May 19. “Are You Really My Friend?”, Tanja Alexia Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through June 17. Edgar Degas: “The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland […]

There’s something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Midwesterners, that screams “Insurance fraud!” to screenwriters.

Written when he was 21, the “The Sea is My Brother” is the work of a talented beginner still developing.