This week * The communities of Saco Bay celebrate their art and industry with a public art initiative that opens this week at the Saco Museum, Dyer Library and the Saco Transportation Center. “Making History: Art and Industry in the Saco River Valley” will include permanent exhibitions as well as a traveling program for schools. […]
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Society Notebook: Family matters
Recognizing the value of family businesses to Maine and the nation is the theme of a recent awards event.
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Society notebook: So happy together
Maine College of Art celebrates its consolodation under one roof in style.
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In the Arts: ‘Vernal Pools’ exhibit evokes the sweet haste of spring
“Vernal Pools” at the Atrium Art Gallery at Lewiston-Auburn College is the primavera of the spring season. I offer such redundancy as an affectionate bow to an exhibition that softly stirs the biologic soup of spring. Vernal pools — more saucers than bowls — appear almost as much from memory as in fact, stay around […]
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Theater Review: Players do justice to ‘West Side Story’
To borrow some lyrics from the show, “there’s a place for us” theatergoers for the next couple of weeks. It’s in South Portland where The Portland Players are presenting an impressive production of the classic “West Side Story.” The Bernstein/Sondheim/Laurents musical based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was an ambitious choice for a local company. […]
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Scene & Heard: Datebook
IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: MONDAY • MAINE FAMILY BUSINESS AWARDS, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Marriott at Sable Oaks, South Portland. Enjoy dinner and drinks and find out who wins this year’s awards. $75. 797-7130. • GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK HUMANITARIAN AWARD DINNER, 5:30 […]
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Last week for Beckmann • Time is running out on “Modernism and Masquerade: Max Beckmann,” the second-floor exhibition of graphic work on view at the Portland Museum of Art. The show closes May 23. This exhibition features approximately 40 prints from the German master. The museum, at 7 Congress Square Plaza, is open 10 a.m. […]
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Review: Sheer poetry: the paintings of Nancy Morgan-Barnes
The irony of poetry is that it must be presented literally verbatim for its rhythms, forms and gestures to fairly unfurl their complexity and subtly colored content. Stories, on the other hand, are the stuff of prose — so any retelling is valid. Nancy Morgan-Barnes’s painting “Little Red Riding Hood,” now on view in Greenhut’s […]
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Books Q & A: History in the making
Loretta Krupinski brings to life Maine waterfronts as they once were.