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Published
October 2, 2011

Bob Keyes: Somewhere, the gallery gods are smiling

PORTLAND — Matt Welch understands that the economy is not well. Especially as it relates to the arts, the sluggish economy poses the single greatest challenge to visual artists and the galleries that represent them. But Welch isn’t interested in wallowing in the fear that’s associated with these difficult times. “Sometimes you get to the […]
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October 2, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Tom Sexton divides his time between Alaska, where he recently served as poet laureate, and Down East Maine, where he observed the apples of these two poems.
Published
October 2, 2011

Art Review: They’re just little things, but these works are weighty indeed

One of the most famous, beloved and — indeed — powerful paintings in the world is Salvador Dali’s surrealist masterpiece, “The Persistence of Memory.” The iconic painting depicts a dreamy landscape in which even clocks are so mellowed that they melt in sleepy repose. I have seen it many times at the Museum of Modern […]
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October 2, 2011

‘Work of the Hand’ returns after hiatus

ROCKPORT — The “Work of the Hand” crafts show and sale at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport presents new work by Maine craftspeople. After a year’s hiatus, the invitational “Work of the Hand” returns to a new venue: Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Ave., Rockport. The show opens with a Collectors’ Preview and […]
Published
September 25, 2011

Book Review: After the Rapture … what?

Tom Perrotta's new novel explores a world that has been turned upside down.

Published
September 25, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Blair Hill Inn – gracious, elegant without pretension, pomp

Beyond the small town of Greenville, at the southern end of 40-mile-long Moosehead Lake, lies one of Maine’s vast wild areas. The region, three hours’ drive from Portland, draws people who love recreating at or beyond the edge of civilization. Our unforgettable dinner begins high above the lake, at Blair Hill Inn. Built in 1891, […]
Published
September 25, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Works by award winning impressionist artist Candasa Edwards Epstein, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 18. “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. 725-3416; bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. Through Saturday. “Alex Katz: […]
Published
September 25, 2011

Ground breaking

A glittering expansion of the Colby College Museum of Art will diverge dramatically from the school's ancestral brick architecture to cast its world-class collections in a new -- and natural -- light.
Published
September 25, 2011

Book Review: New cookbook reflects New England’s past

If you grew up in New England, chances are high that an invisible woman worked in your family kitchen. She traveled in a well-worn book that was never far from your mother’s side. And her name was a familiar one — Fannie Farmer, creator of the “Boston Cooking School Cook Book,” first published in 1896. […]
Published
September 25, 2011

Bob Keyes: New faces on board as arts commission shifts gears

It is too early in the process to accurately assess what’s going on behind the scenes at the Maine Arts Commission, but big changes are in the works. Donna McNeil, who has directed the state agency since 2008 and worked there since 2003, is no longer executive director. She now has the title of arts […]

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