LEWISTON Bates College names new art museum director Dan Mills is the new director of the Bates College Museum of Art. Mills comes to Maine from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he served as director of the Samek Art Gallery for nine years. Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has asked the institution to renew its […]

ART Veronica Cross, continues through Oct. 31, Lajos Matolcsy Art Center, Norway. 739-6161. Opening Friday. “One of a Kind: An Exhibition of Unique Prints,” handmade prints by six local artists; continues through Sept. 26, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. Noon to 4 p.m. today. “Postcards from Maine,” member show, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. www.maineartgallery.org. 11 a.m. to […]

CAMDEN – The Camden International Film Festival opens Thursday, and will present 46 films that represent the best in documentary filmmaking. The festival runs through Oct. 3 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland. The 46 films were selected from more than 300 submissions. Many are United States and regional premieres. The festival, now in its sixth […]

Nationally, Maine’s art reputation is in no small part held aloft by schools dedicated to the arts such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Watershed School for the Ceramic Arts and the Maine College of Art. As well, our top-shelf colleges dedicated to the liberal arts […]

Sharon Lockhart’s “Lunch Break” at the Colby College Museum of Art has the look and feel of a major exhibition: video installations, photography, curated works by other artists, outsider art and, yes, lunchboxes. The show is the result of a year Lockhart spent photographing and observing the workaday culture at Bath Iron Works. She includes […]