HEBRON Academy’s Yena Kang wins Scholastic Art’s top awards Hebron Academy student artist Yena Kang has earned top honors in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2012. Kang’s original works received seven Gold Keys and one Silver Key, the top prizes bestowed by the organization. Among the most prestigious awards for young artists since […]

What does a tiny winged insect at the periphery of human awareness have to do with holiness? This question lies behind today’s poem by Betsy Sholl, Maine’s former poet laureate. “To the Infinitesimal” By Betsy Sholl  I opened a holy book, hoping to find the part about turning the other cheek, and out you flew, […]

Art “Charles Gatewood’s Wall Street,” rare vintage and contemporary photographs, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. 967-9120. Through March 16. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. Through April 14. Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments exhibit, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), […]

Portland Museum of Art members mingle with artists and collectors at the opening reception for the museum’s Degas exhibit.

When is the last time you saw an animated film for children that was soothing? Most studios feel obliged to pump up the little tykes with nonstop bustle, eye-frying color and action figure tie-ins, the entertainment equivalent of heavily sugared breakfast cereal. “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a Disney release from the Japanese Ghibli animation […]

The late Theodore Enslin of Milbridge was one of Maine’s most distinguished poets. Shortly before his death in November, he wrote that today’s poem was influenced by Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica. According to experts, the beautiful music of this instrument is in a range that makes the brain uncertain about where the sound comes from. […]

Maine author Morgan Callan Rogers will be reading from her debut novel “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea” on Thursday at Longfellow Books. The book is about a girl in small-town Maine whose mother disappears, and how the girl deals with that growing up. WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument […]

We can all agree that Portland is a great place to live. We have great art, great theater, great music, great food and mostly great architecture. It’s a city with a lot of history and a city that understands its history in the context of the present day. Two upcoming series at Maine Historical Society […]