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Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
Summer’s end is the perfect time for sumptuous exhibits in Rockland, Portland
Dowling Walsh and Caldbeck galleries in Rockland, and Cove Street Arts in Portland play host to shows that wrap up the season.
Indigenous artists from across Maine gather at Shaker Village for festival
The market has been held at the New Gloucester village for over 20 years and celebrated two of Maine’s oldest artistic traditions.
This Portland show is a ‘who’s who’ of women in photographic arts
The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is exhibiting more than 70 prints, a possible record for the tiny gallery.
Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge demonstrate the power of two at Bangor show
Both acts have been drawing huge crowds since the late ’80s.
See photos of Bob Dylan’s 1978 Maine performance at the Cumberland County Civic Center
Dylan’s next performance is Sept. 5 in Bangor.
Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Scholars see sanitizing.
President Donald Trump threatened to unleash his attorneys on the Smithsonian, saying the institution was fixated on ‘how bad slavery was.’
Maine’s best bets this week: Bonnie Raitt and the Windjammer Festival
You can also dance to the music of Funkationland and shop at the Old Port Makers Market, both in Portland.
The 11 can’t-miss films at the Camden International Film Festival
The festival, now in its second decade, brings together the best nonfiction filmmaking from around the globe — and from right here in Maine.
Lauren Wolk’s lyrical ‘Candle Island’ gets so much right
But her recent YA novel gets one thing all wrong: the summer residents versus locals dynamic.