A federal holiday since 2021, Juneteenth will be celebrated at events across the state, including in Portland, Lewiston, Westbrook, Ellsworth and Nobleboro.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Life & Culture
Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega brings her new album to Maine
Vega released her tenth studio album, ‘Flying With Angels’ and will make a stop in Arundel for a show on June 18.
advertisement
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Life & Culture, Maine
Illustration Institute leases space in Portland downtown to launch an archive
One early project for the nonprofit will be to create an archive of works by Douglas Smith, a Peaks Island artist who illustrated the 1995 novel ‘Wicked.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Stephen King talks ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the end of the world and, yes, joy
Every now and then, King is such a fan of an adaptation that he’s excited to talk about it. That’s very much the case with ‘The Life of Chuck,’ Mike Flanagan’s new adaptation of King’s novella of the same name.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Life & Culture, Maine
Yo-Yo Ma returns to Maine on Oct. 20 for concert with Indigenous musicians
The cellist will be joined by Wabanaki musicians Jeremy Dutcher, Mali Obomsawin, and Chris Newell.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Review
New shows in Rockland, Portland show innovation and evolution in Maine painting
Holden Willard’s ‘Pictures of Home’ is at Notch8 Gallery in Portland, while ‘Elizabeth Awalt: Natural Selections’ is at Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine, News
New building at Rufus Porter museum in Bridgton shows artist’s influence
The new Graham Center will open June 20 at the museum, featuring murals by Porter’s nephew, Johnathan Poor.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Artist Nicole Wittenberg paints the way Maine feels
Wittenberg has two solo shows in Maine this summer at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
‘Skin and Bones,’ and ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ top bestseller lists locally
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books from Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Politics
How kind can a leader be? Jacinda Ardern makes the case for compassion
In her memoir ‘A Different Kind of Power,’ the former prime minister of New Zealand explores the possibility and limits of benevolence in government.