Arts & Entertainment

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October 7, 2012

Calendar

Art “Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol,” University of Southern Maine (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education), Portland. usm.maine.edu/maps. Through Feb. 28. “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary […]
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October 7, 2012

Art Review: Flirting with new form of conceptual art

Since the 1960s, we have generally thought of conceptual art as art whose primary vehicle is an idea rather than aesthetics or its physical medium. It is art with concepts worked out completely in advance of its perfunctory fabrication. Maine hasn’t typically been associated with conceptual art, and yet I think many of our most […]
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October 7, 2012

Bob Keyes: Lute at us now! A city’s leap forward

It is a sign of our maturity as an arts city that in a week’s time, Portland will host an avant-garde chamber music concert at an alternative arts venue, an early-music festival in a long-established church, and a pair of orchestra concerts featuring music by a leading contemporary composer in the city’s most prestigious concert […]
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October 7, 2012

Classical Beat: New technique keeps Maine guitarmaker on the cutting edge

A technique developed in Sweden for curing wood to be used as decking is advancing the art of building acoustic guitars at Bourgeois Guitars in Lewiston. The decking was developed too late to compete successfully against synthetic products, but the process, called Torrefaction, is now finding use in electric guitars and violins. Bourgeois is the […]
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October 7, 2012

Book Review: Rare case: Her second book does first proud

In 'Cutting Season,' the author opens up not only her writing but also the bounds of mystery form.

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October 7, 2012

Author Q & A: Schooling, island-style

Eva Murray of Matinicus has seen island schools from many perspectives. Now she takes up her pen to share this 'neat mix' of old-fashioned and high-tech education.
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October 7, 2012

In The Arts: Shows explore Maine woods, Paris graffiti, geometric abstraction

Jeff Kellar works on the severe edge of geometric abstraction. On first impression, his pieces are so chaste that thoughts about sensual qualities are a concealed form of leering. They seem so plotted, so engineered, so exquisitely achieved, that any potential for sensory delight has been squeezed out of them. His pieces appear to sit […]
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October 7, 2012

Signings, etc.

LINDA GREENWOOD
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October 7, 2012

Scene & Heard: For the Young at Arts

Young performers energize the crowd as Portland Ovations Presents! holds its annual auction to support community arts programs.
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October 7, 2012

Book Review: ‘Cancer’ looks at a Limington love from the inside out

Every once in a while an intensely personal book comes along that shares an intensely personal experience. One such book emerged recently from Limington. It is a religion-spirituality offering from WestBow Press written by Allie Wilcox and starkly titled “Cancer.” As Wilcox tells us in a subtitle, it is a story of “My Wife. My […]

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