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July 8, 2012

Bowdoin museum shows William Wegman

BRUNSWICK – An exhibition that showcases more than 30 years of work by the artist William Wegman will open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art on Friday and remain on view through Oct. 21. “William Wegman: Hello Nature” will feature more than 100 works, including photographs, videos, paintings and drawings — all produced in or […]
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July 8, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 3. “From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France,” paintings, drawings and letters, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through July 15. “Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of […]
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July 8, 2012

Bob Keyes: Celebrate 30 with a Maine treasure

Laura Faure thought long and hard about the best way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Bates Dance Festival. We sometimes overlook the festival. Dance is a thin slice of the performing arts, and summer in Maine tends to lead one to the summer theaters and classical music festivals on the coast. It’s easy […]
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July 8, 2012

Book Review: Preceding feminism, a failure to launch

Janet Groth writes about her career-stifling decades as a New Yorker staffer.
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July 8, 2012

Dine Out Maine: For a taste of gracious coast-of-Maine dining, Blue

You can’t help but marvel at the view as you walk around to the front porch entrance of the Grey Havens Inn, a building on the National Register of Historic Places. Linger at this elevated spot and soak in fir-lined islands and broad ocean views bordered by manicured lawns and gardens. The building is a […]

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July 8, 2012

Signings, etc.

Richard Russo
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July 8, 2012

The kid and the icon

Aucocisco is about to open an exhibition by Ellie Barnet, a young Portland painter with a fairly short resume. She’s proudly sharing the space with a recent presidential Medal of Arts winner, who also happens to be her grandfather.
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July 8, 2012

Movie Review: Allen’s ‘To Rome’ wears its sprawling cast well

Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” is an affectionate but meandering comedy that contemplates romance, fame, legacy and longing. It comes with much of the lightness and love for one of Europe’s great cities that made last year’s “Midnight in Paris” so charming but little of the intellectual and emotional rigor that ultimately turned that […]
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July 8, 2012

At L.C. Bates, Romantics run happily amok

I think Romanticism and the Victorian era are wildly misunderstood by virtually all Americans. This isn’t some broadside about how ignorant Americans are; rather, I think our culture has deluded itself over generations so that we now believe we are more about the settled knowledge of empirical science than about discovery, exploration, personal experience and […]
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July 1, 2012

Arts Planner: Revisit Moliere and Shakespeare

The 43rd summer season at the Theater at Monmouth kicks into full swing this week, with the opening of the Moliere comedy "Tartuffe."

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