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June 5, 2011

Bob Keyes: The word is out: Maine Performs!

For the better part of a decade, arts leaders in Maine have hammered the Maine Office of Tourism to do a better job to promote cultural tourism in the state. Lord knows, people come from all over the country and around the world to avail themselves of Maine art, of the visual variety and the […]
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June 5, 2011

War Illustrated

Steve Mumford's ink drawings from Afghanistan and Iraq were inspired by another battle-tested illustrator of some renown: Winslow Homer.
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June 5, 2011

Arts Dispatches

HALLOWELL Vienna artist is People’s Choice at Harlow Gallery Ross Grams of Vienna won the People’s Choice Award at Art2011, the 16th annual juried art show at the Harlow Gallery. Visitors were invited to vote for a favorite work of art. Grams won $100, sponsored by the Animal Wellness Center of Augusta, for his oil […]
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June 5, 2011

Harlow exhibit explores: What is a drawing?

HALLOWELL – The latest art exhibition at the Harlow Gallery began with Facebook. Monmouth artist Amy Ray noticed that artist friends were posting recent drawings, and many of them captured her imagination. Some were intensely intricate; others refreshingly loose. Some were abstract and free-form; others were precise. “It was inspiring to see what people were […]
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June 5, 2011

Classical Beat: It’s never too early to introduce kids to classical music

If you read the Sunday paper early, it might be a good idea to pack the kids into the car and drive to Ogunquit’s Dunaway Center in time for today’s free 12:30 p.m. concert by the world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet. If no kids are available, the program, like all good music for children, will appeal […]

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June 5, 2011

Keen is undaunted by Coleman Burke’s large space

Richard Keen’s “Nowhere from Here” at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick is an excellent installation. It’s engaging, interesting and accessible, despite Keen’s philosophical depth. Keen’s coastal tool imagery is largely divided between chains and wharfs. Chains appear as rusted residue on large paper drawings, as sculpted forms, and as images in a set of […]
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June 5, 2011

Portland Camera Club names best of the best

One of the oldest continuously operating camera clubs in America recently selected its Image of the Year.
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June 5, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Roses have long been associated with love, but seldom so movingly as in this sonnet by Thomas Carper of Cornish. ROSES By Thomas Carper During the night of fever, as she lay Between an exhausted wakefulness and sleep, I sat beside her fearfully, in dismay When her slow breathing would become so deep It seemed […]
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June 5, 2011

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June 5, 2011

Author Q & A: French lessons

David McCullough's latest book tells stories about Americans – one a Mainer – who went abroad to study and came back agents of change.

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