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August 5, 2012

Bob Keyes: Biddeford exhibition explores LGBT art

BIDDEFORD – Kymara Lonergan greets a first-time visitor at the door of her gallery at North Dam Mill and warns, “There are some racy things in here.” She’s telling the truth. For the next several months, the Kymara Gallery in Biddeford is working in partnership with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art to […]
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August 5, 2012

Portland Chamber Music Festival

The 2012 edition features a living medical miracle as well as the usual stacked lineup of chamber tunes, from classical to contemporary.
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August 5, 2012

Barnet’s special delivery: Art as a perpetual love letter

Will Barnet’s prints and drawings are so serenely perfect that they seem inevitable. You might think he reached out and grabbed the essence of his subject — pure and unadorned — and crystallized it into a picture. Of course, achieving such graceful clarity means there was nothing inevitable or simple about the process. It means […]
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August 5, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “Art Sets the Table,” multifaceted art advocacy project with 32 plates designed to represent participating individuals, Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Aug. 7. “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Aug. 25. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a […]
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August 5, 2012

Early art in Portland: Tracing Homer’s legacy

As part of its Homer summer, the Portland Museum of Art presents “The Portland Society of Art: Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine” through Jan. 13. This exhibition examines the artistic relationship between Homer, his friend John Calvin Stevens and the early years of the Portland Society of Art, the precursor to the Portland Museum of […]

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August 5, 2012

Author Q&A: Light reading

When Whit Alexander wanted to sell a better battery in Africa, his skeptical brother Max decided to tag along and write about it.
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August 5, 2012

Book Review: Lying with the dogs of D-Day

Ben Macintyre chronicles the unlikely spies who shaped the invasion.
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August 5, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Seafood surprise: Sophistication amid the hearty fare

There aren’t many places to get a haddock Reuben. Which begs the question, do you even want one? Yes, you do. Try one at Schutty’s food truck in West Bath. Schutty’s Seafood opened for the first time in July 2011, and stayed open until the end of October. It reopened on April 11 this year, […]
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August 5, 2012

Signings, etc.

PAUL DOIRON
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August 5, 2012

Space: 10th anniversary celebration

In the decade since its founding, Space Gallery has helped transform Portland’s once forlorn Congress Street while providing a much talked about venue for alternative artists and ideas. On Wednesday night, the gallery, which has recently expanded into an adjacent storefront, held a 10th anniversary party to celebrate all it’s accomplished. The centerpiece of the […]

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