First Friday ‘board walk

Artists’ creativity takes flight on skateboards to be auctioned to raise money for a rad new skate park in Kennebunk.

Marin: Mainer

John Marin loved Maine for many reasons. The architecture of the built-up villages along the coast thrilled him. The rugged, unruly sea captivated his imagination. The language of the fishermen tickled his ears.

But the sunsets were something else altogether. They held Marin’s imagination as little else could. He told his New York art dealer, Alfred Stieglitz, that the Maine sunsets were made to order, “the kind no artist can paint.”

Arts Planner

THIS WEEK The Bowdoin International Music Festival begins this week in Brunswick. More than 250 musicians from 25 countries are in Maine to study, teach and perform. Over six weeks, established artists and aspiring virtuosos will present more than 80 concerts, including Brahms’ double concerto, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, performed by pianist Yefim […]

It’s gonna be murder

The tragic romance ‘Cymbeline’ kicks off what will be a summer of Shakespeare in Maine. (Don’t worry – there’s comedy as well as mayhem.)

Concert Review: Franti, Spearhead show waterfront one love

They kick off the Ocean Gateway series with a socially aware message and infectious rhythms.

Franti and Spearhead thrill fans at Ocean Gateway

The Ocean Gateway series could not have gotten off to a better start.

Review: Franti keeps his audience grooving

PORTLAND — Reggae master and good vibe ambassador Michael Franti and Spearhead welcomed summer to Portland on Sunday with an inspiring, uplifting and all-around groove-filled set. Playing a parking lot at Ocean Gateway, Franti and his band kicked off the summer concert season in style. The band played about 100 minutes, filling the evening air […]

Arts Planner

• Beginning Thursday, the Portland Museum of Art opens its summer blockbuster, “John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury.” Most research and exhibitions about Marin focus on his early work. This show, with 54 paintings, drawings and watercolors, concentrates on the late period of Marin’s career, from 1933 through his death in 1953. The show will be […]

Bob Keyes: Payson Wing revisited

PORTLAND – Henry Cobb strode purposefully and slowly up the stairs from the second floor to the third floor of the Portland Museum of Art. He paused, turned, and walked back down with equally measured steps. As he walked, Cobb explained the mathematics of the rise and depth of the treads and the purpose of […]

A passion for words

This year’s young ‘Journey Into Writing’ winners take the craft very seriously … and personally.