Arts & Entertainment

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November 18, 2012

A chance to enter private world of artist, model

LEWISTON — The Atrium Art Gallery at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn campus, 51 Westminster St., presents “The Figure Revealed IV,” a statewide juried exhibition focused on work created in the environment of a life-drawing group. The exhibition features more than 80 works by 53 artists with media ranging from pencil and charcoal to […]
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November 18, 2012

Society Notebook: Along for the ride

Friends of Biddeford's Community Bicycle Center turn out to support its benefit auction.
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November 18, 2012

Calendar

Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. “Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol,” University of Southern Maine (Osher […]
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November 18, 2012

Day-Lewis positively presidential as Lincoln

You think you’re not going to be surprised by Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham “Lincoln” — you’ve seen the photographs, you know he looks right — but the first full shot of him in Steven Spielberg’s majestic “Lincoln” may well take your breath away. There he is in silhouette, the light behind him: the long profile, […]
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November 18, 2012

Signings, etc.

JOHN McDONALD

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November 18, 2012

In The Arts: Three shows: One fascinating, one eloquent, one ambitious

This is an article about three shows: Two on photography and a third that introduces itself with a photograph — a very old one. My bias in favor of traditionally achieved photographs has nagged at this column for years. Photography as we knew it — a blend of chemistry, light and glorious skill — came […]
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November 18, 2012

Art Review: Using art as a weapon of conscience

“The War on Peace” at Waterfall Arts in Belfast is an exhibition featuring two of Maine’s nationally acclaimed artists: Robert Shetterly and Alan Magee. It is a powerful show. It’s tough but rewarding, and its critical outrage is thoughtfully poised. Shetterly is best known for “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a painting series he began […]
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November 18, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Betsy Sholl, a resident of Portland, is the former Maine poet laureate. You might guess that the gulls of her poem come from the outskirts of her city, but you’d be wrong. Betsy explains that she spotted these “bad boys” near her in-laws’ condo in Florida, where she “decided to sit on the beach for a little while and watch.”
Published
November 11, 2012

Zemeckis back in (live) action and ‘Flight’ is the right ticket

The maker of 'Forrest Gump' and other award winners spent the past decade on animation.
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November 11, 2012

Ambitious ‘Cloud Atlas’ just too much, too fast

A work of stunning images, staggering ambition and epic length, “Cloud Atlas” is an attempt to create nothing less than a “unified field” theory of science fiction. If you’re the Wachowskis, who once set the movie world afire with “The Matrix,” you can be forgiven such pretentious overreaching. In “Cloud Atlas,” four Oscar winners and […]

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