Arts & Entertainment

Published
January 23, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Islands and Sirens,” work by Tom Curry and Brian Mark, Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport. www.thosmoser.com. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 30. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Thursday; […]
Published
January 16, 2011

Book review: Tales of lost ships leave research to the imagination

Two short, nice-looking volumes came my way for review, and having read and thought about them as individual works, as types, they need some discussion. This is because the book world is changing every day, and diverse readers crave books written at different levels of intensity, length and presentation. The new entries are popular in […]
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January 16, 2011

Book review: Proulx is good, not great, this time out

Her insights into building an expensive manse don't always resonate.
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January 16, 2011

Society Notebook: Photo Finish

Arthur Fink celebrates the readying of his exhibition of dance photos with a gala opening complete with improvisational movement pieces by Karen Montanaro.
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January 16, 2011

An unorthodox glimpse at Saco a century ago

SACO — The Saco Museum is showing a collection of photographs by Charles E. Moody from the late 19th and early 20th century. The photographer lived in town and made images that “transcended the documentary abilities of the medium to create photographs of astonishing quality, capturing the beauty, humor and contrasts of this idiosyncratic state,” […]

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January 16, 2011

Arts Planner

• Maestro Robert Moody and members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra return to Merrill Auditorium for two late-January concerts. At 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25, the orchestra and guest pianist Andrew von Oeyen present “From Russia with Love,” featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. But the main event of […]
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January 16, 2011

Bob Keyes: At PMA, a well-earned teaching moment

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art has long been recognized as one of the best regional museums in the country. It has a rich collection of art that tells a compelling regional story. It has a spectacular modern home with inviting exhibition spaces. It has an inventory of historically significant buildings that demonstrate the […]
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January 16, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Sit Down! Chairs from Six Centuries,” chair collection of American and European seating furniture from 1470 to the present, Bowdoin College (Museum of Art), Brunswick, free. 725-3275. 1 to 5 p.m. today. “Islands and Sirens,” work by Tom Curry and Brian Mark, Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport. www.thosmoser.com. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today; 10 […]
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January 16, 2011

Arts Dispatches

BRUNSWICK Bowdoin festival founder honored by Juilliard Bowdoin International Music Festival founder Lewis Kaplan, a member of the Juilliard School’s violin and chamber music faculties, has been named the 2011 recipient of the William Schuman Scholar’s Chair. The Schuman Chair is awarded each year by Juilliard’s Literature and Materials of Music Department to a Juilliard […]
Published
January 16, 2011

Taste & Tell: Looking for a lovingly made spoonful? Go Figa

The chef at Figa had me in the palms of her capable hands within two bites of the eggplant Napoleon ($6), one night’s appetizer special. Humble eggplant had been transformed into discs of creamy tenderness and lacy, crisp edges as slightly browned goat cheese chimed in with sour and tangy richness. Nothing slapdash came before […]

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