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May 29, 2011

Bob Keyes: New director breathes new life into leaner CMCA

ROCKPORT — Suzette McAvoy took on the job as director of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art because of the challenge of turning around a beloved organization. Two years ago, CMCA almost went under. The organization teetered on financial ruin, and when the doors closed on the 2009 season, many people in the Maine art […]
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May 29, 2011

Olson, the house that Wyeth built

The home that helped make the artist a superstar takes center stage at a Rockland exhibition.
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May 29, 2011

Signings, etc.

DAPHNE KALOTAY AND JANE ROPER
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May 29, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In this poem for Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey of Bethel relates the story of a haunted war veteran. Edited by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate Night Patrol By Bruce Guernsey My father never slept real well after the war and as my mother tells, he woke in fear so deep, so far away, he seemed […]
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May 29, 2011

Book Review: ‘Saco River’ offers grand tour from mountains to the sea

Author-compilers David Robinson and Elizabeth Tanefis state, accurately I believe, that their new volume, “The Saco River,” is the first “book that uses postcard images to look at the river as a holistic interconnected system.” It is unquestionably a lot of fun to take their historic visual journey on and along the 121-mile waterway from […]

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May 29, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. 2 to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Runs through June 9. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. www.meca.edu. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]
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May 29, 2011

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Society to honor designer of museum’s Payson Wing The Portland Society of Architects will present architect Harry Cobb with the 25 Year Building Award for the Payson Wing of the Portland Museum of Art in a ceremony at 6 p.m. June 16 in the museum auditorium. Cobb, who designed the wing, will speak after […]
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May 29, 2011

Authors share plans for summer reading

Many want to revisit old favorites, with selections from 'Moby Dick' to the latest Bill Bryson.
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May 29, 2011

Book Review: ‘Doc’ engrossing portrait of pre-legendary Holliday

It seems we can’t get enough of Doc Holliday. A central figure in one of American history’s most retold events — the gunfight at the O.K. Corral — John Henry Holliday has been a key character in dozens of movies and television shows, along with scores of novels, since his death in 1887 of consumption […]
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May 29, 2011

Coast Modernism

The remoteness of Seguinland, a collection of Maine villages, coves and islands, attracted influential artists a century ago.

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