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March 20, 2011

Author Q&A: Susan Conley’s Peking Luck

Her new memoir traces on the one hand a grand adventure in Beijing with her family – and on the other, a surprise, game-changing bout with breast cancer.
Published
March 20, 2011

PMA exhibition features European drawings

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art features an exhibition devoted to European drawings, comprised of 30 works from the museum’s permanent collection and on loan from private collectors. “European Drawings at the Portland Museum of Art” opens Saturday and will remain on view through May 22. It features masterworks by the finest draughtsmen of […]
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March 20, 2011

In The Arts: ‘Journeys’ freshens the art landscape

“Journeys to the Interior” at Addison Woolley Gallery is a rare pleasure. It brings forth the work of a reticent, at least in local terms, intellectual and beautifully accomplished painter. The artist is Robert Nason, and the show is touched by a sense of discovery. Here, on Washington Avenue, are paintings by a formidable artist, […]
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March 20, 2011

Art Review: Give emerging artists a good look

Since it is National Youth Art Month, it seems a good time to consider Maine’s “emerging artists.” Many galleries around the state take tourist-free spring as an opportunity to give emerging local artists a chance to prove themselves. Aucocisco in Portland, for example, just opened “Audition” — a completely un-ironic title for an exhibition giving […]
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March 20, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts and objects created to assuage grief and memorialize the dead, drawn from the museum’s collections, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Noon to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. […]

Published
March 20, 2011

Society Notebook: A little St. Paddy’s Day double-dipping

It started with a charity plunge into Casco Bay and wound up with a party – and plenty of Guinness – at Ri Ra.
Published
March 20, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: MONDAY • “Good Wine for a Good Cause,”5 to 7:30 p.m., Grace Restaurant, Portland. Meet more than 20 winemakers, owners and importers and sample their wares. $25 advance/$30 at door. www.cancercommunitycenter.org. WEDNESDAY • Portland Buy Local mixer, 5:30 p.m., Wild […]
Published
March 19, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Step back in time at One Stanley Avenue in Kingfield

KINGFIELD — In the town of Kingfield, the lights of a Victorian inn dazzle and enliven a streetscape of large old homes. Located just across the Carrabassett River from Main Street at its eponymous address, One Stanley Avenue has been serving locals and winter vacationers to nearby Sugarloaf for 39 seasons. I’d visited twice in […]
Published
March 13, 2011

Book Review: New noir thriller fills big gumshoes

P.G. Sturges, son of the legendary Preston, shows he has the right stuff.
Published
March 13, 2011

Author Q & A: Art and soul

Chris Thompson's new book ponders the potential ramifications of a meeting between art innovator Joseph Beuys and the Dalai Lama.

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