The Bowdoin College Art Museum is featuring a compelling pair of exhibitions about how pictorial modern art came to America. “Learning to Paint” focuses on American art’s relationship to 19th-century Europe and the development of an American art world. It showcases some fantastic talent: John Sloan, Albert Bierstadt, Maurice Prendergast, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer, […]

PORTLAND – Don Meserve smiled and gripped as friend after friend walked over to him, grabbed his hand and offered thanks and congratulations. Finally, after 30 years of thinking about it and two decades of actively trying, Meserve had the satisfaction of knowing that his installation of 14 lead panels of his Stations of the […]

Portland comic strip artist Lincoln Peirce lands a book deal thanks in part to a fan letter from years ago.

It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means that many of our favorite far-flung galleries are opening their doors for another season. Here are a few gallery openings of note from across Maine: • The New Era Gallery, 60 Main St., Vinalhaven, opens for the season this weekend with an exhibition titled “Winter Works,” featuring a collection […]

Local author Josh Pahigian will be signing his latest baseball-themed book: “Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball’s Most Essential and Inane Debates.” The book includes debates about players left out of the Hall of Fame, about the worst uniforms, and about lopsided trades. Pahigian’s other baseball books include: “The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip”; “101 Baseball […]

Two interesting and strong Wyeth exhibitions recently opened at the Farnsworth Art Museum. “The Wyeths’ Wyeths” is a show of works from the personal collections of members of the family — most have never been shown at the Farnsworth and several have never been shown in public. While the works of N.C. and Jamie dominate […]