Arts

Easy on the eyes

At Whitney Art Works, "The Funnies" directly engage viewers with 150 pieces by 25 artists.
"The Funnies" at Whitney Art Works is a sprawling show of upwards of 150 pieces by 25 artists, all of whom have been brought together by local artist — Jeff Badger.

By KEN GREENLEAF | February 26, 2009

Interview: G. Xavier Robillard

Of politics, capes, and fame-whoring
There just aren't many career options for a washed-up superhero these days.

By MARY PHILLIPS-SANDY | February 18, 2009

Printing Portland

Local artists reclaim mass production
Local artists reclaim mass production

By IAN PAIGE | February 18, 2009

Interview: Randy Regier

Living the dream
Randy Regier, 44, received his MFA from the Maine College of Art and is now an instructor there and at Bowdoin College. He is the recipient of a Maine Arts Commission 2009 Fellowship and is currently exhibiting two installations.

By IAN PAIGE | February 11, 2009

Super-curious

A conversation with a Nobel-winning polymath: QED
A conversation with a Nobel-winning polymath: QED

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 11, 2009

Norse myths

Creating Peer Gynt at PSC
A troll, according to folklore, can conceive by lust alone. That's one presumptuous genesis, and one that Peer Gynt learns the hard way.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 04, 2009

Forceful feelings

Rodin's solidity has staying power
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was one of the greatest sculptors in history.

By KEN GREENLEAF | February 04, 2009

Slideshow: R. Crumb's Underground

R. Crumb at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, opening February 4.
Featuring work from R. Crumb over the last 40 years.

By R. CRUMB | February 03, 2009

Water Dogs

Lewis Robinson's first novel picks up where Officer Friendly left off
A sort-of mystery novel that may or may not involve a crime, Water Dogs is also the story of a family broken by the death of its patriarch, "Coach," whose three children (fail to) cope with his death in highly individualized and complicated ways.

By ALEX IRVINE | January 28, 2009

Asta in the Wings

Youth view told in an adult voice
Jan Elizabeth Watson was reluctant, at first, to set her dreamy first novel in Maine, afraid of marginalizing herself as a "Maine writer."

By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | January 28, 2009

Friends, Romans...

...Courtesans? Funny Thing, that
Colorful archetypes abound in this super-stratified society of ancient Rome.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Looming dark

Works by Jim Campbell + Megan Greene + Kim Keever + Bennett Morris
In "Twilight," now showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, four artists pull some roots from the Gothic Romantic tradition and rearrange them to fit their needs.

By KEN GREENLEAF | January 28, 2009

Slideshow: Backstage Pass at PMA

A photographic story of music
Loving obsessive groupie

By PHOENIX STAFF | February 06, 2009

Review: Lark and Termite

Total immersion
"Language Immersion" is the name of a program set up by the US Army in Korea just prior to the North's invasion of the South.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2009

Not messing about

Mad Horse's beautiful Clean House
The pale modernism of Lane's living room, plush but sterile, is being slowly strewn with stuff: barely bitten apples, playing cards, a bright yellow spice.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Review: La Cage aux Folles

"All about love"
La Cage aux Folles at Portland Players

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 21, 2009

Review: ''Backstage Pass'' at the PMA

Nothing new — and that's not a bad thing
The half-century chronology covered by the Portland Museum of Art's latest exhibition, "Backstage Pass," reveals in photographic portraiture a story of music that is a euphemism for the ultimate creative act. Like sex, rock-and-roll is about surrender to the present moment.

By IAN PAIGE | January 26, 2009