PORTLAND – This coming weekend, the Portland Museum of Art will move one step closer toward establishing itself as the pre-eminent authority on Winslow Homer. On Friday and Saturday, the museum will host Winslow Homer Weekend. Scholars and invited guests from around the country will gather at Homer’s studio at Prouts Neck on Friday night […]

Jerry Genesio’s new self-published book tells the fascinating tale of the first execution ordered under the U.S. Constitution — which took place in Portland.

PORTopera returns to full production with ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ and chooses a story that deals with hard times.

Monhegan is a lithic wonder. Less accessible than other pictorial icons, it has been less abused by painters. It submits itself as a bastion in a restless sea and as an exemplar of man against an often furious nature. Still, when reduced to canvas, those qualities, as forceful as they are, are anticipated and thus […]

Maine culture is defined by its relationship to our coast — gorgeous and bountiful but craggy and mortally tough. Our landscape is transcendentally beautiful, yet more often than not, impenetrably dense. Maine soars as a source of great paintings of Western culture. But the vast majority of these paintings are defined by the distance of […]

ELLSWORTH – Courthouse Gallery Fine Art will open three exhibitions Thursday with an artist’s reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibitions will run through Aug. 25. Solo shows by David Graeme Baker and Gregory Dunham will feature new work, and Baker will give a gallery talk from 4 to 5 p.m. Aug. 15. Gallery […]