In the ring at Clark’s Trading Post, a six-foot seven-inch, 440-pound black bear named Pemi stands up like a man and tosses a basketball through a hoop. Pemi’s mate, Echo, a 340-pound female, has just finished her act, riding around the ring on a Segway, raising the flag, and dancing. With them is a pixie-like […]
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SLIDE SHOW: Winslow Homer
The Portland Museum of Art will present Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place June 5 to September 6 to commemorate the centennial of the artist’s death. Read more: Finding Winslow Homer in Maine Six Places to Find Homer’s Art This slide show of Winslow Homer‘s oils and watercolors comes from the collection of Maine’s […]
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The Interstate-95 Triennial
Any juried group exhibition is bound to be something of an eclectic grab bag. That’s just the nature of the beast. But the I-95 Triennial at the University of Maine Museum of Art (in downtown Bangor, not on the Orono campus, April 23 to June 12) is shaping up to be even more eclectic than […]
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The Intellectual Landscape
Tula Telfair is a New York artist who teaches painting at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and exhibits her large, panoramic landscapes at the Forum Gallery, a bastion of figurative and super-realist painters. To be taken seriously as a contemporary artist while painting firmly in the landscape tradition is no easy feat. The late Neil Welliver […]
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Art As Experience
Garry Mitchell lives about five miles from me in North Yarmouth, Maine, yet for some reason I have never gotten around to taking him or his wife, writer Debra Spark, up on invitations to visit his studio. I have, however, admired Mitchell’s work from afar. I have seen it online, here in town at a […]
A dinner fit for guests or a family holiday is ready in 30 minutes when you follow this recipe for leg of lamb prepared by Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps for “207 Kitchen” on WCSH6 television in Maine. RECIPE: Feta and Black Olive Coated Roast Leg of Lamb Want a dozen sensational seasonal recipes […]
Back in 1990, I selected an image of “Rising Cairn” by sculptor Celeste Roberge for the cover of my book Maine Art Now because it perfectly embodied the point I wanted to make with the book – that Maine art was no longer just romantic landscapes and seascapes by artists from away attracted to the […]
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In the Realm of Ideals
I’ve been hearing good things about what Fr. Iain MacLellan has been doing at the Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, so I was not all that surprised when two of Maine’s best painters turned up in the current three-artist show there. Mirare (through March 20) features geometric abstractions by […]
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The Sweet Smell of March
I went off on a bit of a chase for spring on Friday, without really knowing that was what I was doing. I was to write about a woman who lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, outside of Portland, about three hours from here. I left early to be able to arrive at 11. The hills […]
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This Is Still Life
The most intriguing object in the Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art at the Portland Museum of Art (through June 6) is not a still life painting at all. It is a sculpture entitled “Grouper,” the skeleton of a fish rendered in linden wood by Fumio Yoshimura, […]
How New England Can Save the World: Part II in a series Part I: 2011 Biathalon World Cup: Aroostook County Part III: Hardwick and the New Frontier of Food Part IIII: A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of […]
1, 2. Stash umbrellas near the door in Ameico’s “Ivy” stand ($240); pens, pencils, and other implements are at home in a quirky “Pen Pen” pen and pencil holder ($23). Ameico, New Milford, CT 888-350-8765; ameico.com 3. Hang coats and bags on a pretty pine Shaker pegboard ($27.50-$65 assembled and finished; DIY and finished cherry […]