Here’s a life list of 75 essential things for anyone who loves New England, native and visitor alike. How many have you done?
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Yankee
Three Visions in Rockport
The old fire barn that houses the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in the village of Rockport, Maine, is filled top to bottom with three wonderfully satisfying solo exhibitions between now and September 25. CMCA was on the financial ropes last year and appeared on the verge of collapse, but with new director Suzette McAvoy […]
Yankee
Blowing Up Maine
A decade ago, Scottish painter Peter Davies painted two famous paintings “The Hot One Hundred” and “The Hip One Hundred.” Both paintings are simply colorful lists of important artists. Alex Katz made both paintings. He was No. 90 on “The Hot One Hundred,” but he was No. 4 on “The Hip One Hundred.” Since the […]
Yankee
Bright , Shiny and Kinetic
George Sherwood brings a somewhat unusual background to the creation of art. The Ipswich, Massachusetts, resident earned a BFA at the Hartford Art School back in 1976 and spent time as a street performer in Burlington, Vermont, before enrolling at the University of Vermont to a study for a degree in engineering (B.S. 1984). He […]
Magazine
The Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine
VIDEO: Marginal Way The Marginal Way is a seaside path that stretches along the granite coastline of Ogunquit, Maine. Entirely paved and mostly flat, it’s hardly a strenuous hike, yet it remains one of the most popular in New England. People flock to the Marginal Way for the view. Though only 1-1/4 miles long, it offers […]
Connecticut
The Return of Rackstraw Downes
The Maine art community, myself included, never really appreciated painter Rackstraw Downes when he was a seasonal resident of the state. Though he had a summer home in rural Morrill from the 1960s until fairly recently, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Rackstraw Downes show in Maine. Now that Downes, a New York City […]
Back in 2006, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, received a $140,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the exhibition and publication of its extensive collection of works on paper. The following year, the Henry Luce Foundation gave the Wadsworth $50,000 to do conservation work on the works on paper in […]
Welcome to the July 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. New England Men and the Word “Love” They don’t always rest easy together … Some summers ago, we published an article in Yankee Magazine about […]
Dahlov Ipcar, 92, is a Maine state treasure. The daughter of painter Marguerite and sculptor William Zorach, Ipcar is perhaps the best-known and best-loved artist in the state, celebrated for her lifetime of creativity and her sustained vision of the transformative power of the imagination. “I have come to feel that the reality created by […]
Experience real Maine lobstering aboard the boat, Lucky Catch, in Casco Bay by watching this slide show of photographs. Click on the main picture to advance the Maine lobster slideshow. Get more lobster recipes Read the story: After the Catch View more slideshows of Maine from Yankee Magazine: Maine Coastal Odyssey The Last Sardine Cannery […]
Clarence Rhodes, celebrated rosarian and longtime judge for the American Rose Society, lives in Portland, Maine, where this retired electrical engineer has dispelled the notion that New England’s harsh winters kill the prospects of anything outside of, say, an ‘Elina’, ‘Dublin Bay’, or ‘Hot Princess’. More than 250 bushes consume his backyard, line his driveway, […]
In search of summer on the Maine coast, we dispatched photographer Richard Schultz to capture the sights, people, and moments of a Maine summer.