Photographic memories

Maine’s photo bender continues into October, with two major photography shows opening at two high-profile exhibition spaces in southern and midcoast Maine.

The Portland Museum of Art just opened “Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64,” which focuses on the schism that existed in photography in the 1920s and ’30s when a group of California photographers — Ansel Adams and Edward Weston most famously — challenged what was then the norm of soft-focus, posed and highly pictorial images.

Art and Theater: In the fast lane

Over the next few months, Portland theater audiences will have the chance to experience several plays that are just different enough and outside the norm that they conspire to give the fall season a happy edge of anticipation.

Minnelli calls in sick, postponing show at Merrill

A few hours before show time, the star disappoints some 1,400 fans.

Maine arts leaders convene for cultural summit

They hear that economic development in the arts begins with quality of place – which Maine has.

Five Maine Gubernatorial candidates begin final sprint

AUGUSTA – The five candidates on the ballot for governor met in Maine’s capital city Saturday night for the first of two Great Debates, setting up the grinding final six weeks of the campaign as a spirited political sprint to Nov. 2.

The debate, sponsored by MaineToday Media and its media partners WGME-TV and WGAN radio, was broadcast statewide. The debate was open to the public, and attracted backers of the leading candidates.

Arts Planner

• In our rush to anoint a new celebrity diva with every turn of the moon, perhaps we’d be wise to remember the reigning diva has not relinquished her crown. There is no diva more deserving of the title than Liza Minnelli, a superstar by any measure. A winner of an Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Emmy […]

PSO Season Preview: ‘Great music is great music’

That’s what conductor Robert Moody stresses on the eve of the 2010-11 season, not all of which fits neatly into the ‘classical’ box.

Book Q&A: Punk scene revisited in ‘American Hardcore’

The author of the bible of the hardcore punk movement is out with a new edition and heading to Maine to talk about the musical genre and its legacy.

Maine art master Stephen Pace dies at Indiana home

The painter known for featuring salt-of-the-earth people was fittingly at his easel till the end, a friend says.

Maine artist Stephen Pace dies at 91

The painter found inspiration in the natural environment in and around Stonington.