‘Spatial Relations’ at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art features the works of Elizabeth Atterbury, Gordon Hall and Anna Hepler.

Pop culture is awash in boomer nostalgia, a symptom of intellectual malaise and the enduring chokehold one generation still has on what counts as worth caring about. But sometimes, the stewards of that patrimony manage not just to preserve what was great about the things they loved as kids, but infuse them with enough new […]

“Encounter” opens with a shot of a bright celestial object streaking across the night sky, followed by ickily close-up footage of insects, particularly the mosquito – or, it is suggested, some mosquito-like E.T. – that pierces the skin with its proboscis and deposits something nasty into the bloodstream. To wit: that something is a nonterrestrial […]

The play, written by Maine’s David Butler, tackles serious subjects with stellar acting.