PORTLAND – The Portland Chamber Music Festival is known for its risk-taking and sometimes unusual programming. Such is the case with the festival-opening concert, scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine. The program features all-harp, all the time. “The harp is not what you would normally hear,” […]

Some friends of ours from Pennsylvania stopped by for a visit the other day. The husband is an electrical engineer, now retired, who devotes his time to helping municipalities alleviate light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the night skies as our ancestors did. coincidence, I had just finished reading “One Square Inch of Silence” […]

The husband-wife artist team of Victoria and Peter Nelson will show their work through Aug. 27 at Bridge Gallery, 568 Congress St., Portland. Both are self-taught artists, and both were entrenched in successful corporate careers before pursuing their art full time. The show is titled “At the Water’s Edge.” The Nelsons split their time between […]

A USM professor makes the trek to a shrine in Spain with a photographer to capture the arduous journey made by pilgrims since the Middle Ages.

Portland Museum of Arts supporters gather for a party at the famous painter’s seaside studio on Prouts Neck.

Barbara Ernst Prey, a world-renowned artist with a slew of new work on display at her Port Clyde gallery, is also a card-carrying hockey mom.

Truly great sculptors are very few and far between. If you can click off the names of 10 great sculptors from antiquity to the current day, you are likely in the throes of studying for an art history test or you are a sculptor. Considering the dozens of great and recognizable art movements — the […]

Monhegan serves as both setting and character in Matthew Kiell’s love story about an islander-artist and a Midwestern visitor.

A local radio host gets screen legends and film experts to tell stories of Hollywood’s golden era.

Don Tuski believes creativity is and will continue to be among the most important commodities in this country’s evolving new economy.