Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Arts Planner
With the theater season in full swing, here are some options that may be less obvious: • Farmers and artists will perform an original play about local agriculture and the future of small family farms Thursday through Oct. 30 at Camp Ketcha, 336 Black Point Road, Scarborough. Created by Jennie Hahn of Thomaston, “Of Farms […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Chance to choose from 1,000 pieces by Pittore
BRUNSWICK – The Carlo Pittore Foundation will host a “Day of 1000 Drawings” from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Fort Andross Mill in Brunswick. The afternoon will feature the sale and silent auction of 1,000 original works on paper by the late Carlo Pittore; an awards ceremony for two $1,000 grants to Maine artists […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Bob Keyes: Curatorial finale fit for a design guy
It’s somehow appropriate that Tom Denenberg’s final exhibition as chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art focuses on the design and genius of the Shaker community. Denenberg, who is leaving Portland to become director of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, has always favored exhibitions that explore the decorative arts. With degrees in American and […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Dine Out Maine: Fez could use focus, but its food earns a tip of the hat
We dropped in at Fez, occupying the former site of Hamdi restaurant in Portland, on a Friday night. Instead of strictly Moroccan cuisine, as the name suggests, we found Mediterranean food with a northern African emphasis, including Somali fare. It was warm, so the door was open to the sidewalk. A small heap of building […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Art Review: York gallery show knocks it out of the park
Despite its 100th birthday, abstract painting has hardly been the star of Maine’s 2011 season. But I can finally report on a couple of shows featuring terrific abstract work. Since I just wrote about another show at Aucocisco, I won’t go into detail about Cassie Jones’ muffin-puffy and scrumptiously fun retro treats, Mark Wethli’s jangling […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Author Q&A: Divided we stand
A new book by Portland writer Colin Woodard traces our history – and offers perspective on our present – as a politically and culturally fractured land.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2011
Audience Calendar
Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show featuring blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramics and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. Through Oct. 30. “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States,” drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints, […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Arts Dispatches
BATH Best-selling author to visit Hyde School on Oct. 30 Best-selling author Douglas Preston will visit Hyde School on Oct. 30 to discuss the finer points of writing as part of a writer’s workshop. The class, which will meet first in the fall and continue through April, is for students who want to launch a […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Arts Planner
• Last spring, nine College of the Atlantic students spent 10 weeks in Vichy, France. The students from the United States, Mexico, the Czech Republic and El Salvador were charged with recording their journey in drawings, paintings, photography, words and video. Highlights of their work will be displayed in “Carnets de Voyage: Illustrated Travel Journals” […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
Classical Beat: Career piano tuner in love with life’s flats and sharps
Memo to young people having trouble finding a job: Piano tuning. People who love to play will always find a way to pay for what Matt Guggenheim, who tunes the pianos for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, calls a “necessary luxury.” “They’re like Beethoven. The bombs can be dropping 40 miles away, but what they care […]
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