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100 things to do

Want to call yourself a true Portlander? Here's a checklist.
A checklist for true Portlanders.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 27, 2008

Bold leadership and an ambitious curatorial vision have vaulted the Peabody Essex Museum into a spot among the country’s best
Could the Peabody Essex Museum be the Boston area’s most exciting art museum right now?
By GREG COOK | July 23, 2008

Looking directly

Seeing what summer has to offer
OK, summer’s here and it’s time to please the visitors.
By KEN GREENLEAF | June 18, 2008

Power + glory

The peculiar American brashness of George Bellows
The work of George Bellows has a peculiarly American brashness about it.
By KEN GREENLEAF | April 30, 2008

Myth-making

Constructing images in a fantasy world
The infusion of a personal panoply of mythological motifs allows Kinsella to create highly decorative pieces that still speak to the soul.
By IAN PAIGE | April 23, 2008

Behind the mask

What we don’t know about the Valentine’s Phantom — and why that’s a good thing
In a city where secrets are few and far between this one has lasted. And lasted.
By JEFF INGLIS | February 13, 2008

The space invader

John Bisbee's metalwork hijacks the Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art’s new exhibition immediately confronts you with the transformative power of John Bisbee’s sculpture.
By IAN PAIGE | January 30, 2008

Anti-interview

Extra words with John Bisbee
The following is a transcription of the proceedings before my interview with artist John Bisbee over libations in an undisclosed location in Brunswick, Maine.
By IAN PAIGE | January 30, 2008

Coming alive

Portland's art weathers the dead season
Back in the day, winter and early spring used to be a dead zone in the Portland art year, but 2008 seems to be shaping up pretty well.
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 26, 2007

Essence of place

A conversation with Alfredo Jaar
He spoke about his process creating public interventions, walking the audience through one of his best known projects, one concerning the genocide in Rwanda.
By IAN PAIGE | December 12, 2007

Accept no imitations

See genuine masterpieces — not reproductions — at the Portland Museum of Art
The nature of art requires that you see the real works. Reproductions will not do.
By KEN GREENLEAF | October 31, 2007

One medium, many approaches

Graphite group show has scattered gems
There is indeed a sense of “look at all the crazy things you can do with graphite!”
By IAN PAIGE | September 26, 2007

Drawing connections

Experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s work at the PMA
The Portland Museum of Art’s challenge in presenting an architectural exhibition is akin to the finger that points to the moon.
By IAN PAIGE | July 11, 2007

From sketch to finish

In “Maine Architects Design Furniture”
Visit the top floor of the Portland Museum of Art for a local contribution to the design discussion.
By IAN PAIGE | July 11, 2007

...And the living is easy

Get it while the getting is good this summer
Fellow Portlanders, we have about three months until we return to our caves for hibernation.
By IAN PAIGE | June 13, 2007

Contemplating relationships

The Portland Museum of Art's 2007 Biennial juxtaposes mediums, perspectives, and artful themes
A decidedly Yankee sincerity surfaces in the absence of any flippant, art-world insider plays on culture.
By IAN PAIGE | April 11, 2007

Slow + steady

Talking about sex – with a turtle?
Before grown-ups start talking to kids about certain things, a parent observes, kids start talking to grown-ups.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 28, 2007

Live + in person

By CHRIS THOMPSON | January 31, 2007

Able not to hear

Early American deaf painter John Brewster Jr. at the PMA
During the years 1796 to 1801, John Brewster Jr. painted the portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Cutts of Saco.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | January 31, 2007

Border-garde

A talk with photographer Wendy Ewald
Next week, in conjunction with the Portland Museum of Art’s exhibit "American ABC: Childhood in 19th Century America," documentary photographer, MacArthur Fellow, and fine human being Wendy Ewald will give the museum’s Nelson Fund for Social Justice Lecture.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | November 08, 2006

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