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Looking backward

Portland art: 2007 in review
Seems like it was a pretty good year.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  December 19, 2007
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The new nomadology

Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts’ first summer
We tracked Smith down to find out how the first summer unfolded.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  September 07, 2007
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Prodigious son

Justin Richel, American in Switzerland
His work looks funnier than it is.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  August 22, 2007
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One or several

Bracha L. Ettinger at the Maine College of Art
Ettinger has referred to herself as a painter first, a clinical psychologist second.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  July 25, 2007
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Dropping anchor

Garrick Imatani’s “Corridor at Sea: the Performative Object” at the ICA@MECA
“Corridor at Sea: the Performative Object” is an ambitious experiment in thinking through the relationship between performance and installation.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  July 03, 2007
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On the table

A talk with DesignInquiry’s Margo Halverson
“PASS•PORT: identity in the information age” was the theme of this year’s DesignInquiry.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  June 27, 2007
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The greenest eye

“Green Horizons” at Bates College Museum of Art
Bates College Museum of Art opens its “Green Horizons” exhibition — a six-month project, exploring the intersection of art, science, pedagogy, and the notions of sustainability and environmental engagement.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  June 06, 2007
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Free beer

Sam van Aken at Whitney Art Works
There are certain works of art in the face of which the critic must simply bow his head and weep.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  May 09, 2007
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Arms of the ancients

Jen Blackstone’s “Academy Proposal” at June Fitzpatrick
The success of the television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? has made it clear to us just how much knowledge and spiritual vigor gets lost after one hits one’s climax at roughly the age of eleven.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  April 25, 2007
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Weather delay

Ian Kerr on Portland's arts resources
Iain Kerr was recently enlisted by Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance to draw up some innovative ways of diagramming data it had gathered through its “Discovery Research Project.”
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  April 18, 2007
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Here’s to you

Melanie Fiander’s “One Minute Introduction”
“Hey there, Mr. Jason Simon. My name is Melanie Fiander, and this is my film.”
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  March 28, 2007
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Packed kitchen

A talk with Creative Material Group’s Leon Johnson and Megan O’Connell
Artists, film- and bookmakers, teachers, performers, and motorcyclists Leon Johnson and Megan O’Connell recently made Portland the home.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  March 21, 2007
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Bread to poetry and back again

Charlie Hewitt brings eternity's light to Whitney Art Works
“Workers need poetry more than bread,” Simone Weil wrote in her book Gravity and Grace .
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  February 28, 2007
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Anarctic

Spurse at sea
Having found their way to the threshold of the great Kansas plains, the conquistadors quickly lost it again.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  February 21, 2007
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Knox's prophet

Someone's been reading Bern Porter
A Maine native and longtime resident of Belfast, Bern Porter died there in 2004 at the age of 93.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  February 07, 2007

Live + in person



By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  January 31, 2007
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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
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Philm

Movies to make you think better
On January 24, SPACE Gallery kicks off a series of four films and follow-up dialogues exploring contemporary philosophy.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  January 17, 2007
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Ideas you never paid for

Three thoughts for 2007
Three ideas for the artist-(inter)activist.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  January 03, 2007
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On on!

Two trends that will shape the city’s future
2007 will see the beginnings of the climb to prominence of a new form of cultural producer in Greater Portland: the artist/developer.
By IAN PAIGE AND CHRIS THOMPSON  |  December 27, 2006
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Retroperspective

A year in Portland art
Rare are the instances of true interdisciplinarity in exhibitions of contemporary art-moments where disciplines meet, mix, and couple to produce offspring that belong to neither field and set off on their own in search of even wilder mates.
By IAN PAIGE AND CHRIS THOMPSON  |  December 20, 2006
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Critical intervention

George Smith and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
When the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts gets its final permissions from the state Legislature in early 2007, Maine will become home to the first Ph.D. program in visual arts in America.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  November 29, 2006
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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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MoMADness

The Museum of the Modern American Dream hits town
In September the Museum of the Modern American Dream, an organization dedicated to commemorating the search for the American Dream by ordinary Americans, opened up an extension here in Portland.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  November 01, 2006
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Last of the Tuba

MaryPat Warming’s burial of feminist theory
In a 2006 performance in the Boboli Gardens in Florence, Italy, MaryPat Warming wore a costume with a third prosthetic breast, stood with the Madonna’s poise at the edge of a wall with the vista of Florence unfolding behind her, and endeavored to consume the contents of several wine bottles full of whole unpasteurized milk.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  October 11, 2006
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Changing worlds

A talk with USM philosophy professor Jason Read
On the USM philosophy department's home page, I noticed Karl Marx’s famous lines from Theses on Feuerbach: “the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it.”
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  October 04, 2006

Letters to the Portland editor: September 29, 2006

War is art
War is art
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS  |  September 27, 2006
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Painting at 3 mph

Thomas Manning on parade
Friday evening, a group of local citizens — students, activists, interested participant/observers, members of the press, and a surprisingly spare handful of professors — gathered at USM in Portland, preparing to march to Congress Square.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  September 20, 2006
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Smells like free spirit

Art and engagement in Autumn 2006
Encountering Charlie Hewitt’s work for the first time, at his Farnsworth Museum retrospective, was like meeting someone from the neighborhood where you grow up long after you’ve grown up.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  September 13, 2006
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Living theoria

Military uses for art theory
This spare spiral that Constantin Brancusi traced to capture the likeness of writer James Joyce describes the sort of journey involved in what Joyce called the “sedentary trade”: using one’s life as the material for one’s work, each working and wandering into and out of the other.
By CHRIS THOMPSON  |  September 06, 2006

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