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Harrington’s debut is Connection’s finale

First (and last) laugh
This week, Providence-based comic Ray Harrington released his first CD, The Worst Is Over , on respected comedy label Stand Up! Records.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | March 06, 2013

Institutionalizing single works at IFAA

Looking closely
In another look at Portland's growing number of atypical studies within the art world, we spoke to Southern Maine Community College art history professor Christopher Stiegler, founder of the Institute for American Art, a curatorial space he runs from his home on Smith Street in Bayside. This is an edited transcript.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | March 07, 2013

A public conversation probes art deeply

Thought experiment
The Peninsula School is a weekly art discussion forum open to the public launched within the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA by graduate sculpture student Rob Doane.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 27, 2013

Lady Lamb weans a full-length album

Audible emotion
The haunting and quasi-S&M-themed video for her song "The Nothing Part II" (directed by Portland filmmaker David Meiklejohn) premieres on SPIN.com this week.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 27, 2013

Metal Feathers net their best record yet

Dredging up the low
If you're going to make huge structural changes, before your third record is a fine time to do it.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 20, 2013

Altered Gee dig the past and turn up treasure

Golden beats
The experience of modern music is synonymous with nostalgia.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 13, 2013

Blending Lovecraft and modern art

Inspired darkness
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 06, 2013

Astrid Bowlby opens the black box

Drawing encyclopedia
To consider "Everything," the new installation by artist Astrid Bowlby, consider what we know about the sausage maker.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 30, 2013

Cuss’s thunderous, visceral High Gravity

Guitar takes a back seat
The majority of people who listen to Cuss will invariably remember one thing. Men are pigs.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 30, 2013

Ian Svenonius conjures the spirit world in reviving rock and roll history

Are you a believer?
These days, the road toward a successful music career seems very brightly lit.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 25, 2013

Corrigan + Gardiner at Mayo Street Arts

Coordinated states
While there's no easy way to tie together the respective art forms of Pat Corrigan and Jennifer Gardiner, the community hub of Mayo Street Arts is a fittingly off-center venue for their latest work, which fuses discrete processes and subjects for a modestly sized showcase.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 09, 2013

Finding fantastical fauna

Fitch’s feats
Even leaving aside their scarcity in highbrow galleries and happening-lite installation work, animals in visual art have never been more popular.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 31, 2012

The year ahead in visual arts

See and be seen
While the PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART is about to wrap its wildly successful Winslow Homer exhibit, something tells me we'll be feeling the various expressions of "Weatherbeaten" for awhile.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 26, 2012

Just try to escape from these Jags

Take up the Endless fight
Show me a world where the good times never end, and I'll show you, in just a few hours' time, an epic hangover and a parking ticket.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 12, 2012

Bringing the exhibits to life at the PMA

Inside the galleries
This Friday, the Portland Museum of Art stages the last of this year's Artist Intervention series, a program launched in January 2012 in which local professional artists create on-site performances and installations to complement the visitor experience.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 05, 2012

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