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June 27, 2010

Art Review: A sculptural display of promise and portent

In 2004, the results of a BBC survey of 500 art world professionals revealed the most influential work of 20th century art was Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 “Fountain.” Duchamp, a member of New York’s Society of Independent Artists, paid the $5 to anonymously submit “Fountain” (which he signed “R.Mutt 1917”) to a show at the Society […]
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June 27, 2010

Arts Dispatches

Festival to celebrate Schumann, Chopin with 80 performances BRUNSWICK – Over the next six weeks, more than 250 musicians from 25 countries will present more than 80 concerts from Portland to Bath as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Opening this week, the festival salutes the 200th anniversary of the births of Robert Schumann […]
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June 27, 2010

Arts luminary to deliver message of hope

Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will bring a mixed message of hope and alarm to Maine on Thursday as he attends a mini arts summit at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized and hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is part of […]
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June 27, 2010

Arts Planner

This week As part of the First Friday Art Walk, Maine Historical Society in Portland will show a series of images in its ongoing exhibition “Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life in Maine.” The exhibition weaves a visual narrative of life in Maine. Images include turn-of-the-century automobile racing on Old Orchard Beach, the 1970 student strike […]
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June 27, 2010

Author/illustrator Ashley Bryan to show work at Island Institute

ROCKLAND – Children’s book author, illustrator and Isleford resident Ashley Bryan will show a selection of his work in “Singing With Truth” at Archipelago Fine Arts, the Island Institute’s art gallery, at 386 Main St., Rockland. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. An author or illustrator of more than […]

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June 27, 2010

Jamtown, U.S.A.

Some 50 bands and 15,000 or so of their best friends will make the trek up Route 26 to Oxford for the three-day musicfest called Nateva.
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June 27, 2010

Taste & Tell: The Chart Room’s food,view alter one’s perspective

PROUTS NECK – Black Point Inn sits at the throat of one of Maine’s few gated communities and at its tables the neighbors and the visitors might not be easy to tell apart. The inn is owned by people in the neighborhood and run by General Manager Jesse Henry, a manager-owner of Migis Lodge in […]
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June 27, 2010

Keyes: ‘Burt Dow’ goes to the opera

Maia Aprahamian was lunching one afternoon with the folks who run the Stonington Opera House. “Suddenly, it hit me. I said, ‘You know, ‘Burt Dow’ would make an incredible opera.’ This is my schtick, opera writing. They livened to the idea.” Five years later, Aprahamian’s idea has become reality. Opera House Arts, the programming wing […]
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June 27, 2010

Society Notebook: Wrap party

Maine’s burgeoning film scene celebrated Thursday night when the state’s first-ever awards for the 7DayPSA were handed out at a party in Portland. Begun in Rhode Island and headed for cities around the country, the 7DayPSA program pairs filmmakers with nonprofits and gives them seven days to write, cast, direct, produce and edit a public […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Books Q&A: In quite a state

If it's oddball or eerie, you just might read about it in Michelle Souliere's newly published 'Strange Maine.'

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