For Portland money coach Jane Honech, the key to real — and lasting — financial transformation lies in first understanding how we look at money.
Arts & Entertainment
Audience Calendar
Art “New Works” by Craig Mooney and Henry Isaacs, Gallery on Chase Hill, Kennebunkport. maine-art.com. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through July 3. Through July 21. “Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940,” 65 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs by a small group of American modernists who worked in Maine in the first half of […]
Book Review: ‘Conflagration’ best account of Portland fire
It was a turning point in the development of Maine’s largest city, and the largest urban blaze in the United States up to that time.
Bob Keyes: PORTopera voices soar ever higher
GORHAM — It’s been fun watching PORTopera grow up. Back in the day, Maine’s professional opera company hosted one mainstage production each summer featuring professional singers from New York, and a series of smaller shows with young singers from the University of Southern Maine School of Music. Each summer, the college singers would present a […]
Music takes center stage in Bar Harbor in July
The 45th season of the Bar Harbor Music Festival begins Friday with the return of Brass Venture for the eighth consecutive year. The season includes 12 performances, including recitals, chamber music, pops, new composers, opera, jazz and string orchestra concerts through July 31. Highlights will include the 28th annual New Composers Concert on July 13; […]
Marin: Mainer
John Marin loved Maine for many reasons. The architecture of the built-up villages along the coast thrilled him. The rugged, unruly sea captivated his imagination. The language of the fishermen tickled his ears.
But the sunsets were something else altogether. They held Marin’s imagination as little else could. He told his New York art dealer, Alfred Stieglitz, that the Maine sunsets were made to order, “the kind no artist can paint.”
Art Review: Magic of Marin on marvelous display at Portland museum
In 1942, Clement Greenberg, the most influential art critic in American history, considered that John Marin (1870-1953) might be “the greatest living American painter.” The Portland Museum of Art’s new exhibition “John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury” does more to buoy Greenberg’s comment than any exhibition in at least a generation. In fact, this show is […]
Scene & Heard Datebook
TUESDAY • Local Foods Networking Breakfast, 8 a.m., Local Sprouts Cooperative Cafe, Portland. Join others interested in the local food movement for a casual gathering. Free. Cost for breakfast items. [email protected]. THURSDAY • Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness Dinner & Auction, 5:30 p.m., Marriott at Sable Oaks, South Portland. Enjoy cocktails, dinner, a silent auction […]