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May 29, 2011

Caponigro photos capture ‘hidden presence’

ROCKLAND — Paul Caponigro is one of the most important American landscape photographers of his generation. He is still very much alive and living in Cushing in midcoast Maine. This summer, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland features a selection of his black-and-white silver gelatin prints. “Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places” is on […]
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May 29, 2011

Event seeks to ingrain creativity in business

An event at the University of Southern Maine in Portland will answer the question: What happens when you put an art professor and a CEO in a room together? The event, From Imagination to Innovation, will run from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the University Events Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library on Forest […]
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May 29, 2011

Author Q & A: L.L. keen

Lewiston writer James L. Witherell pens a friendly new biography of Maine legend L.L. Bean and the company that bears his name.
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May 29, 2011

Art Review: MECA students deftly open door to new horizons

I truly hope it becomes the standard practice of Maine’s art-viewing public to attend the exhibitions at the art schools and colleges in Maine featuring the work of students about to graduate with degrees. These shows not only help us keep up with Maine’s schools and the progress of our students, but they also invite […]
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May 29, 2011

Bob Keyes: New director breathes new life into leaner CMCA

ROCKPORT — Suzette McAvoy took on the job as director of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art because of the challenge of turning around a beloved organization. Two years ago, CMCA almost went under. The organization teetered on financial ruin, and when the doors closed on the 2009 season, many people in the Maine art […]

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May 29, 2011

Olson, the house that Wyeth built

The home that helped make the artist a superstar takes center stage at a Rockland exhibition.
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May 29, 2011

Signings, etc.

DAPHNE KALOTAY AND JANE ROPER
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May 29, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In this poem for Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey of Bethel relates the story of a haunted war veteran. Edited by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate Night Patrol By Bruce Guernsey My father never slept real well after the war and as my mother tells, he woke in fear so deep, so far away, he seemed […]
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May 29, 2011

Book Review: ‘Saco River’ offers grand tour from mountains to the sea

Author-compilers David Robinson and Elizabeth Tanefis state, accurately I believe, that their new volume, “The Saco River,” is the first “book that uses postcard images to look at the river as a holistic interconnected system.” It is unquestionably a lot of fun to take their historic visual journey on and along the 121-mile waterway from […]
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May 29, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. 2 to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Runs through June 9. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. www.meca.edu. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]

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