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Arts & Entertainment
Book Review: Food for thought emerges from fast
A UMaine instructor writes candidly about his experience in the book ‘Fasting for Ramadan.’
Arts Planner
THIS WEEK • Maine State Ballet in Falmouth collaborates with baritone Aaron Engebreth and pianist Alison d’Amato to present “The Poet’s Love,” a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann in 1840. Maine State Ballet artistic director Linda MacArthur Miele created the work with Engebreth and d’Amato, who co-direct the Florestan Recital Project. The ballet fuses […]
Audience Calendar
Art Openings Barbara Ernst Prey: Open Spaces, Blue Water Fine Arts, Port Clyde. 516-316-7477. Meditations on the environment; opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Aug. 21. Sarah Knock “Water: The Surface and Below,” Greenhut Galleries, Portland. 772-2693. Maine realist painter, opening reception, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday; […]
Artists’ impressions of France
DAMARISCOTTA — Claudette Gamache, a midcoast pastel artist and teacher, recently led a group of Maine-connected artists to paint in France. Their explorations included Aix en Provence, where Cezanne painted, the wine region of the Lot River Valley, and the medieval towns of Sarlat and St. Cirq-Lapopie. The exhibition of their work will run from […]
Art Review: New contemporary gallery makes impressive debut
Rose Contemporary is Portland’s newest high-profile gallery. While as fresh as could be, it has deep local roots with two of Maine’s premier contemporary art galleries – it’s run by a former director of Aucocisco, and was created in partnership with Whitney Art Works. “Space Invaders” is Rose’s inaugural exhibition, so many visitors will see […]
And a few of our favorite things
More choices are a good thing. We collected your opinions on everything from your favorite restaurants and bars to nail salons and tattoo parlors, and compiled the results for our 25th annual Readers’ Choice poll. But if you want even more choices — more ideas for places to go and things to do during the […]
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Grant will fund programs centered on Homer studio The Portland Museum of Art has received a $100,000 grant from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation to support the first two years of educational programming for the Winslow Homer Studio at Prouts Neck. With this grant, the museum will launch a series of ambitious programs connecting […]