Edgar Allen Beem

While the Maine coon cat isn’t actually a cross between a raccoon and a domestic cat, it’s still a fascinating animal. Learn more about this furry feline.

Maine’s World Traveler Signpost in Lynchville has been a roadside attraction for nearly a century.

This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.

Maine Foliage Drive Distance: about 40 miles round trip Sometimes those long lines at Red’s Eats, that colorful little roadside seafood shack in downtown Wiscasset, can stretch almost to the Sheepscot River bridge. That’s why the Midcoast town of Wis­casset is the perfect place to detour off the busy road and onto what your dad […]

This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.

As much as I love art, it is rarely possible for an artist to improve upon the beauty of the natural world. The myriad forms of teeming, swarming, walking, winged and rooted life are just so impossibly intricate and overwhelming that just paying attention to what’s drifting and floating by in the air, in the […]

Twenty-one years ago, back in March of 1991, I wrote a short profile of Boston painter George Nick for Yankee in which I observed that “though he rarely paints people, George Nick is a society painter.” “In the solid, reassuring facades, high bay windows, and ornate stone entries along Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, he […]

The beauty of the New England islands has inspired an enduring legacy of artists and fine art, some 150 years in the making.

Though I don’t get to the University of Maine Museum of Art, two hours north of me in downtown Bangor, very often, I have never been disappointed when I have. The Alan Bray exhibition I saw there last fall was the best solo show I saw all year and the I-95 Triennial 2013 (through June […]

   Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]

A few years ago, I wrote a short profile of photographer David Brooks Stess for the pages of the July/August 2009 Yankee. Many of the black and white photographs featured in that article are now part of the Blueberry Rakers: Photography by David Brooks Stess exhibition at Portland Museum of Art (through May 19). Though […]

At a press luncheon on Monday, Marsh 25, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine previewed the elegant and elemental new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion which, when it opens on July 13, will make the Colby museum the largest art museum in the state of Maine and one of the premier college art museums in […]