Contemporary art, especially installation, is a challenge. Done well, it heightens the senses and enhances experience. It communicates. It’s a celebration of both medium and message. Done poorly, it screams, “Look what I can do with my computer/projector/iPod!” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
This has to be something of a rarity in America: to view an exhibition of landscapes in a museum and then, upon exiting, to encounter the very places you were just looking at. That is one of the distinct pleasures offered by the show on… Read More
artNOW, University of Maine art faculty exhibition, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through Friday, Nov. 19, Carnegie Gallery, UM campus, Orono. Sometimes a show comes along that shatters all preconceptions about a group of artists. For those who follow the work of the University… Read More
BAR HARBOR – Artists from the city of brotherly love have been coming to Maine since the 1830s. The Philadelphian Thomas Doughty (1793-1856) was among the first to paint the coast, choosing Mount Desert Rock as a subject. Among the notable Philadelphia painters to follow was American Impressionist… Read More
“Vive le surrealisme!” That’s how Timothy Baum, an authority on the surrealists, ends his exuberant essay in the catalog for the exhibition “The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection” currently at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (through June 6). Alan Clark, whose… Read More
The drawings of Theophil Groell of Stonington, who died in early March, hark back to the old masters. In line, contour and tone, Groell consistently manifested the classical ideal: Through close attention comes beauty. Through the month of April, the John Edwards Wine Cellar Art… Read More
There are certain things you expect in a landscape: Land, sky, horizon. Marguerite Robichaux’s paintings of the view near her home in Eustis have all the elements. She just tweaks them a little. First off, they’re vertical. And her finished works – in oil thinned… Read More
“Meditations,” work by MaJo Keleshian, Lydia Cassatt, Deborah Jellison and Larry Corbett, through March 26 at the Department of Art Galleries, Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono. We think of meditation as a solitary activity – legs crossed, eyes closed, silent, still. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
“Andrew Wyeth: Watercolors, Temperas and Drawings,” through May 21, 2004, Hadlock and Wyeth Study Center Galleries at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Main Street, Rockland, 596-6457. Andrew Wyeth’s work is a delicate balance of permanence and impermanence, the passage of time and the immediacy of the… Read More
“Northern Observations,” paintings by Ed Nadeau and Nina Jerome, through Dec. 1, Department of Art Gallery, second floor, Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono. Looking at Ed Nadeau’s early paintings is like watching reruns of “Northern Exposure,” only stranger. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
GEORGE TICE: URBAN LANDSCAPES, through Saturday at the University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, 561-3350. In this corner of the country, the urban landscape isn’t something we see every day. There are no skyscrapers in Bangor, or even Portland, and we have a whopping… Read More
SEARSPORT – New England is blessed with a number of coastal museums devoted to presenting the nautical history of the region – and the world, considering that many of the shipping routes that circled the globe connected with the northeast edge of America. Over the years, one of… Read More
PORTLAND – To have the Whitney, the Smithsonian and the Swope lend from their collections for “The Poetry Within: The Life and Work of William Thon” at the Portland Museum of Art is very nice. To see special works from private collections such as those… Read More
At the end of what would be his final interview, William Thon agreed to let the reporter see his Port Clyde studio, but urged gallery owner Cynthia Hyde to give the tour of the large shed where many of his works and painting materials were stored. Read More
?Art is never chaste.? ? Pablo Picasso Some theme shows in the art world seem obvious. Georgia O’Keeffe’s flowers or Winslow Homer’s seascapes, for instance. That a current traveling exhibition detailing 75 years of Picasso’s erotic works – earmarked as one of this year’s hottest… Read More
ORONO – If “portrait” makes you think of a man in a powdered wig, posing stiffly in an armchair, the University of Maine Museum of Art’s latest exhibit will change your mind. “The Potential Self … Portrait as Signifier,” which runs through Oct. 20 at… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – People always think bigger is better. That’s why we have SUVs and supersize and supercenters. But often, bigger just means more leg room, more french fries and more falling prices to watch out for. It doesn’t mean higher quality. It just means higher quantity. Read More
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