Arts & Entertainment

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July 4, 2010

Art Review: ‘American Moderns’ isa ‘run, don’t walk to it’ exhibit

American Moderns” showcases masterworks on paper from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Highlights of a great collection, the 90 works on view in the Portland Museum of Art are strong ambassadors. The exhibition is both exciting and easy to digest. While the accompanying catalog would have you think it self-divides into polemical and divisive groups, the works […]
Published
July 4, 2010

‘Sound of Music’ comes alive like the hills

It’s 2010 and the region’s two most prominent summer theaters, the Maine State Music Theatre and the Ogunquit Playhouse, have opened productions of, respectively, “My Fair Lady” and “The Sound of Music.” Are we in a time warp? Is Ed Sullivan in the house? No. More likely we’ve just entered the comfort zone of familiar, […]
Published
July 4, 2010

Dispatches

NEWCASTLE Salad Days will benefitWatershed’s programs The 16th annual Salad Days will take place at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The fundraising event draws up to 500 visitors for an afternoon of local food, ceramics, kids’ interactive projects, music and a pottery sale. Admission is $30, but […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Book Review: A love affair: Soviet leaders and heavy industry

Back in the 1960s, a rather humorless economics-geography teacher at the university I attended posted a new course titled “A Breakdown of the Soviet Transportation System.” We undergrads thought it hilarious since he clearly meant “overview” not the rather negative “breakdown,” but he never got the point of his own unintended pun. Colby College history […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Books: Grab on, here’s a trio of thrillers

How the pages will turn: from an Amish murder scene to Irish terrorists to a leggy crimefighter.

Published
June 27, 2010

Classical Beat: A multifaceted ‘Hansel and Gretel’

I last saw “Hansel and Gretel” in an outdoor amphitheater in Rochester, N.Y., during a Lilac Festival so long ago that I don’t want to think about it. Now PORTopera is staging it July 29 and 31 at Merrill Auditorium in a politically oriented version, with a children’s chorus of various ethnicities, who may (at […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Art Review: A sculptural display of promise and portent

In 2004, the results of a BBC survey of 500 art world professionals revealed the most influential work of 20th century art was Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 “Fountain.” Duchamp, a member of New York’s Society of Independent Artists, paid the $5 to anonymously submit “Fountain” (which he signed “R.Mutt 1917”) to a show at the Society […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Arts Dispatches

Festival to celebrate Schumann, Chopin with 80 performances BRUNSWICK – Over the next six weeks, more than 250 musicians from 25 countries will present more than 80 concerts from Portland to Bath as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Opening this week, the festival salutes the 200th anniversary of the births of Robert Schumann […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Arts luminary to deliver message of hope

Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will bring a mixed message of hope and alarm to Maine on Thursday as he attends a mini arts summit at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized and hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is part of […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Arts Planner

This week As part of the First Friday Art Walk, Maine Historical Society in Portland will show a series of images in its ongoing exhibition “Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life in Maine.” The exhibition weaves a visual narrative of life in Maine. Images include turn-of-the-century automobile racing on Old Orchard Beach, the 1970 student strike […]

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