Arts & Entertainment

Published
July 15, 2012

Author Q&A: Waters’ edge

In his new book, Matt Rigney uses tales of his adventures sport fishing to help form a plea for conservation of the world's imperiled oceans.
Published
July 15, 2012

Wegman unleashed

People know and love the portraits of his Weimaraners, but there’s a lot more in the portfolio of this longtime summer resident of Rangeley.
Published
July 8, 2012

Author Q&A: 4 ounces of fight

Phil Hoose's new book details the spellbinding survival story of the scrappy B95 rufa red knot.
Published
July 8, 2012

Book Review: A lively, life-affirming book about death

Biologist and best-selling author Bernd Heinrich has spent years spying on his neighbors. Using his camp in western Maine as a field laboratory, he observes the animal life in his backyard woods. Lately, he has trained his eye on the final stage of the life cycle: What happens when animals die? What species convene at […]
Published
July 8, 2012

Arts Planner

• For the past 25 years, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle has hosted ceramic artists as residents. To celebrate this long-standing tradition, Watershed and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens present “Watershed’s Legends: 25 Years of Residencies.” The exhibition will open Tuesday, and the public is invited to a reception from 6:30 to […]

Published
July 8, 2012

Bowdoin museum shows William Wegman

BRUNSWICK – An exhibition that showcases more than 30 years of work by the artist William Wegman will open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art on Friday and remain on view through Oct. 21. “William Wegman: Hello Nature” will feature more than 100 works, including photographs, videos, paintings and drawings — all produced in or […]
Published
July 8, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 3. “From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France,” paintings, drawings and letters, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through July 15. “Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of […]
Published
July 8, 2012

Bob Keyes: Celebrate 30 with a Maine treasure

Laura Faure thought long and hard about the best way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Bates Dance Festival. We sometimes overlook the festival. Dance is a thin slice of the performing arts, and summer in Maine tends to lead one to the summer theaters and classical music festivals on the coast. It’s easy […]
Published
July 8, 2012

Book Review: Preceding feminism, a failure to launch

Janet Groth writes about her career-stifling decades as a New Yorker staffer.
Published
July 8, 2012

Dine Out Maine: For a taste of gracious coast-of-Maine dining, Blue

You can’t help but marvel at the view as you walk around to the front porch entrance of the Grey Havens Inn, a building on the National Register of Historic Places. Linger at this elevated spot and soak in fir-lined islands and broad ocean views bordered by manicured lawns and gardens. The building is a […]

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