Daniel O’Leary to conduct research for a book on Winslow Homer at the artist’s Prouts Neck studio.

NEW ON THE SHELF: “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies,” Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen. The final installment of Peter Jackson’s epic adaptation of the Tolkien prequel goes out with a bang and then some, delivering a battle for the ages, making nearly every cinematic mass altercation that came before it look like a walk […]

The crack studio musicians responsible for countless hit records get their props in ‘The Wrecking Crew!’ doc.

Clint Fulkerson and Kim Crichton make a companionable pairing at the Cape Elizabeth gallery.

‘The joy of creativity should be part of every day,’ says Tony Hoagland, a past Guggenheim Fellow, who will make a stand for poetry and humanity April 16 in Portland as the inaugural speaker in a new visiting poets series.