Make an old Victorian house in Norway, two galleries in Rockland and a South Portland frame shop your July art destinations.

Explore Nick Benfey’s ‘Light Springs’ in Portland, while Rose Marasco reinterprets the work of Lynne Drexler at the show in Falmouth.

Life is cruel, all is vanity, the house always wins and the cosmic joke is on us. Everything in popular culture conspires to hide these truths from us because they’re a lousy way to make money. Occasionally, however, creative artists turn up to remind us of the facts, and they’re usually not American. Kafka. Nabokov. […]

See the work of Andrea Sulzer in Woolwich and Strauss Bourque-LaFrance at Dunes in Portland.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The personification of death is not the grim reaper, nor a pale horseman, nor an Irish banshee, but a parrot. The parrot – all right, a macaw, if we’re being specific – can hear the voices of the dying and flies in to ease their pain, raising […]