Art “Madeleine de Sinety: Photographs,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection,” Shaker furniture, art, tools, textiles and crafts, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 5. “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic […]

• The Portland Symphony Orchestra unveils this year’s version of “Magic of Christmas” beginning Friday at Merrill Auditorium and continuing through Dec. 18. This year’s show will feature acrobatic feats, joyful holiday songs, Christmas carols and music from “The Nutcracker.” Music director Robert Moody will lead the orchestra in a program of classical and popular […]

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Bill Belichick’s reign over the Patriots, as well as his influence on all of football, is the topic of a new book by Michael Holley.

PORTLAND – The exhibition hanging in the Art Gallery at Waynflete School in Portland came about by chance and circumstance. The artists who made it do not consider themselves artists, and they certainly didn’t set out to make art for public consumption when they began their project earlier in the fall. But “Arboretum” is very […]

“Arthur Christmas” is a spirited, comically chaotic and adorably anarchic addition to the world’s over-supply of holiday cartoons. It’s very British, in other words — from its producers (Aardman, the folks who gave us “Wallace & Gromit”) to its voice casting to the slang slung by the assorted Santas in this 3-D computer-animated farce. “Assorted […]

You know times are tough when even the Muppets are facing bankruptcy, or worse, playing in a Muppet tribute band. What happened to the “rainbow connection”? That and more will be answered with nostalgic charm and big, splashy production numbers in the very warm and fuzzy musical comedy of “The Muppets.” The movie stars Jason […]

Donn Fendler, who famously was lost for days on Mount Katahdin as a young boy, co-writes his story in graphic novel form.

BIDDEFORD – The University of New England’s Biddeford Campus Center will exhibit the paintings of UNE art professor Charles Thompson beginning Thursday and running through mid-January. Thompson will show his latest series of en plein air paintings, which depict the rugged coastline and dense woods surrounding his Maine homes. He works from start to finish […]