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January 27, 2013

Signings, etc.

TOM ALLEN
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January 27, 2013

Smithsonian exhibit makes one stop in Maine

LEWISTON — The Smithsonian is coming to Museum L-A. The museum, which documents and celebrates the economic, social and technological legacy of Lewiston-Auburn and its people, is the only stop in Maine for the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, “The Way We Worked.” The show explores America’s work history, depicting how work spans time, cultures and economic […]
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January 27, 2013

Art Review: The economy and eloquence of Lois Dodd

I once gave a talk about Lois Dodd when she was sitting 10 feet from me. Intimidated, I hesitated, then began with her quote, “I am cheap with the paint.” She nodded. That only reinforced my image of Dodd as the archetypical Maine painter. Sure, she is from away, but she has had a place […]
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January 27, 2013

Book Review: ‘Supper’ is served, and laced with irony

Da Vinci did not seek -- or likely even want -- to work on what became one of art's great masterpieces.
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January 27, 2013

‘Three Stooges’ a coffee table book for the low-brow

Here’s forehead-smacking news for anyne who can’t get enough of Moe, Curly and Larry: “The Three Stooges Hollywood Filming Locations” (Santa Monica Press, $39.95), by Jim Pauley. It’s an actual grown-up book, chock full of careful research and hundreds of black-and-white photos documenting almost every cinematic move the Stooges made from 1934 to 1958 — […]

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January 27, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The distinguished poet Lewis Turco, of Dresden Mills, has been writing poetry of great variety over many years. In today’s poem he describes the onset of a snowstorm.
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January 20, 2013

Dine Out Maine: At Cloud 9, you’ll be warmly welcomed and well fed

Augusta proper is ripe for an excellent restaurant, don’t you think? Not necessarily something fancy-schmancy or hipster-dipster. The state capital simply needs a distinctive eatery. Some place where, if you tell someone in the know you’re going to Augusta, they answer with a “Oh, then you must eat at …” Until that happens, there is […]
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January 20, 2013

Book Review: Beauty amid winter’s chill — it’s a thrill

Lauren Brown lets the reader have it in her first sentence. “In New England, almost half the year is winter.” Yikes! I had never thought of it quite like that. “The flowers,” she goes on, “and the greenery that brought us so much pleasure from April to October are gone.” Put in those terms, she […]
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January 20, 2013

Calendar

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Feb. 17; and Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine,” exploring the […]
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January 20, 2013

Art Review: Gaze into Dorothy Schwartz’s moral mirror

Dorothy “Deedee” Schwartz was a 19-year-old student when she produced her first significant woodblock print under Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). Yes, that Leonard Baskin. Schwartz’s 1957 “Daedalus and Icarus” is startlingly powerful and impressively proximate to Baskin’s work. A version of the print is accompanied by the wood block from which it was pulled. Together, these […]

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