The new East Wing drama, “The First Lady,” exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator, fashion plate and champion for unobjectionable causes as part of each administration’s political theater tend to be much more interesting and complicated than the manicured images they project. That’s certainly […]

“The Northman,” an ambitious deep dive into 10th-century Viking myth by Robert Eggers, is many movies at once: Bold and beautiful, bloody and completely bonkers, it marks a visionary and visceral high point in the post-“Game of Thrones” action-fantasy sweepstakes, whose main metric of success seems to be packing in as many beheadings, blood feuds […]

Ocean House Gallery & Frame has moved to South Portland, and Mayo Street Arts has reopened after renovations.

Some animals are easier to love than others, whether they deserve it or not. Who wouldn’t want to cuddle an otter, though they are some of the most ruthless killers in the animal kingdom? And everyone loves the chittering of Flipper, until … well, Google “male dolphin gangs” – just not on your work computer. […]

A spring show at the Met features Homer’s works that are centered along the Gulf Stream include themes of race relations in the post-Civil War era.

Work by the three artists is on display at Maine College of Art & Design’s Institute of Contemporary Art.