The next-best 5 indoor places to take kids in New England. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE Imaginative exhibits let kids try out a variety of identities-from fire chief to letter carrier, veterinarian to pirate. On a clear day, the views inside the camera obscura delight adults and children alike. 142 Free St., Portland, ME. […]
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Yankee
The Feathered Hand
Alison Hildreth has one of the finest literary imaginations of any artist I know. Her deeply personal, intuitive paintings, prints, drawings, and installations are often informed by her readings of visionary writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and W.G. Sebald. So it does not surprise me that The Feathered Hand, Hildreth’s wondrous exhibition […]
Welcome to the February 2011 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. Have You Ever Found Any Hippopotamus Teeth on the Beach? Some years ago, one Roy Coombs of Vinalhaven, Maine, did. Really! Sometimes our New England […]
Maine
Maine Art New
Though only a handful of readers may have noticed, Just Looking is now being posted every two weeks instead of once a week. In part this is because I will be spending much of my time in 2011 writing and editing Maine Art New, a sequel to my 1990 book Maine Art Now. Maine Art […]
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Art City By The Sea
Greenhut Galleries in Portland began mounting a biennial Portland Show in 2002 to mark its 25th anniversary. The fifth edition of the Portland Show (through December 31) features close to 50 artists who were invited to depict, evoke, respond to, remember, imagine, and abstract the essence of Portland, the biggest little city in the world. […]
Posing for an artist is an intimate and privileged experience. To submit to the sustained, analytic gaze of another is a strange thing, at once uncomfortable and pleasurable. I have only done it twice and I’m not sure I’d do it again. Back in the 1970s, I sat several times for painter Diane Fitch, then […]
Maine
Maine Modern
Carol A. Wilson is the only architect in Maine who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is also the state’s finest practitioner and proselytizer of “modern” architecture, that much bandied about term that sometimes refers to the current and contemporary but actually has more to do with style than time. In […]
Cooking Advice
Gourmet Kitchen Supplies | New England’s Finest
Stock up on artisan-crafted kitchen basics and gourmet staples. 1. You could use this family-size cherrywood salad bowl ($79) every night and it would still last a lifetime; mini wooden bowls (set of four $12) have endless practical uses. New Hampshire Bowl and Board, Contoocook, NH. 603-648-9566; newhampshirebowlandboard.com 2. Pewter fruit-blossom measuring spoons ($48) by […]
Desserts
Best 5: Holiday Pies
When you need a rest from holiday cooking, why not buy a homemade pie? These five New England bakeries make all their pies from scratch. No matter how you slice it, there’s sweet satisfaction here. We asked Victoria Abbott Riccardi, a Boston-based food, travel, and nutrition writer and author of Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary […]
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Expressionist Island
The gentle Cranberry Isles scattered off the shores of rugged Mount Desert Island have provided shelter and subject matter to some of the best artists in modern Maine art history – William Kienbusch, John Heliker, Robert LaHotan, Dorothy Eisner, Emily Nelligan, Ashley Bryan, Gretna Campbell, and Campbell’s son Henry Finkelstein. Like most of the artists […]
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Thermoplastic Downeast
The Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine, has been having a 1970s summer. The exhibition that just closed, The ’70s: Art & Place at Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, featured artists active in the area in the 1970s. Now, (through September 19) the Tides Institute is featuring a solo exhibition by Richard Van Buren, […]
Arthur Tauck Sr. started the whole leaf-peeping trade in 1925, when he first took paying passengers to see the beautiful colors of autumn. Eighty-five years later, Yankee follows Tauck’s “Classic New England” tour–and discovers some surprises along the way.