Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Classical Beat: Jobs’ love of Bach worth noting
This has been a season of synchronicity. In all the deification of Steve Jobs — we don’t have too many heroes from the business world nowadays — I learned of his love of Bach. Then a friend brought me a copy of beat poet Charles Bukowski’s “The Last Night of the Earth”: ditto. After Tomas […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Art Review: Nadler’s brilliant work has that certain ‘thing’
In a recent interview with me, Jamie Wyeth talked about painting as a struggle that, for him, is “not particularly enjoyable” until, after so much work, “that certain moment when it comes alive.” This might sound a bit odd in light of Wyeth’s facility and incredible chops, but it seems reasonable enough considering his work […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Tyng landscapes, Dodds boats on view at two Augusta sites
AUGUSTA — The artwork of Alexandra Tyng and James Dodds is displayed in Maine’s Capitol Complex as part of the Maine Arts Commission’s Arts in the Capitol program. The exhibition is on loan from the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, and will remain on display until February. The work is viewable from 8 a.m. to […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Book Review: Book digs deep into intricacy of affairs
Anne Enright tells a funny, dark, no-judgments tale of rapture and ambivalence.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Author Q & A: Sweet
Isle au Haut's Kate Shaffer writes about her move from cook to chocolatier – recipes included – in a new book.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Society Notebook: Watching their ghoulish figures
Ghoulwill Ball-goers admire one another's fiendishly clever costumes.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Audience Calendar
Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show, blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramic ware and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Book Review: In which true love lies betwixt the lines
It's not 'Middlesex' redux, but 'Marriage Plot' isn't chopped liver, either.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Society Notebook: Indies rock
Independent business owners gather for a party celebrating what makes Portland ... Portland.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Signings, etc.: Mary Jo McConahay
Author Mary Jo McConahay will speak about her book, “Maya Roads,” in a special Monday edition of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. In the book, McConahay draws on her three decades of traveling and living in Central America to chronicle the people, the politics and the nature of the Central American rain […]
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