An exploration of a region’s history
PORTLAND, ME (PNAN) – Set to open at the Portland Museum of Art on Friday, October 6, 2023, “Fragments of Epic Memory” will be an immersive encounter with the Caribbean…
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Innovator chosen for museum’s agenda
PORTLAND, ME (PNAN) – This March 2022, Ramey Mize becomes the Assistant Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art, where she will support the museum’s Art for…
Homer and Wyeth works bought
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine recently acquired new works by Winslow Homer, “An Open Window” and “River Cove” by Andrew Wyeth. “An Open Window” is one…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through September 7, 2014. Richard Estes’ Realism BRIEF ABOUT: This exhibition is the most comprehensive survey since 1991 of the paintings…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: Goes on view Thursday, January 30 through April 27, 2014. Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum BRIEF ABOUT: This exhibition presents 110…
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WHERE: Holiday Inn By the Bay WHEN: Tuesday, June 18 from 6:30-8:00 pm. Editor’s note: This annual Bernard Osher Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy and Harold…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through May 19, 2013. TITLE: Blueberry Rakers: Photographs by David Brooks Stess BRIEF ABOUT: By focusing his camera on the hard realities…
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“Audiences will be challenged, engaged, and inspired by the great Tanzanian cultural objects in Shangaa,” said PMA Director Mark H.C. Bessire. “For the first time in the United States, the…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through February 17, 2013 TITLE: Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project BRIEF ABOUT: The Museum has commissioned a group…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: Opens Saturday, July 28 and remains on view through January 13, 2013. TITLE: The Portland Society of Art: Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine BRIEF…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: On view June 14 through September 3, 2012. TITLE: The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960) BRIEF ABOUT: Focusing on the impressive Normandy coast,…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: April 21 through July 15, 2012. TITLE: From Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France BRIEF ABOUT: More than 70 works of art…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: Through April 1, 2012. TITLE: National Youth Art Month BRIEF ABOUT: In collaboration with the Maine Art Education Association, PMA has organized this student…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art WHEN: Monday, January 23 BRIEF ABOUT: The Nelson Social Justice Fund will present a lecture with artist Andrea Zittel. The program will begin at 6:00…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art WHEN: Opens Saturday, January 14 through April 8, 2012. TITLE: Making Faces: Photographic Portraits of Actors and Artists BRIEF ABOUT: An exhibition of 35 works…
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WHERE: Portland Museum of Art WHEN: February 4-June 17, 2012 TITLE: Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend? BRIEF ABOUT: Photographic portraits that examine friendships in the social media…
Blue Star Museums
(PNAN-US) – A program of free admission to children’s, fine art, history and science, and nature centers for all active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, September…
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WHERE: MAINE: Portland Museum of Art WHEN: Thursday, June 23 through October 10, 2011 TITLE: John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury BRIEF ABOUT: John Marin (1870–1953) was regarded as one of…
Bessire responds to mural uproar
UPDATE: A public forum entitled, “Whose Art Is It?”, is set for Friday, April 8, noon-1:30 pm, Portland Museum of Art. “A state long renowned as the home of…
Style and purpose is show’s theme
(PNAN-ME) – From portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies, “European Drawings” at the Portland Museum of Art is an exhibition that will showcase a spectrum of…
Maine’s terrain is show’s focal point
(PNAN-ME) – There is a Proverb, “From small beginnings come great things,” and in 1983, when the Friends of the Collection group made itself known, the Portland Museum of…
Bessire is thrilled with pride
(PNAN-ME) – These statements which can be attributed to Frank Tyger, who was a political cartoonist with the Trenton (NJ) Times, sums up Professionalism: “Progress results from persistence with…
Poet to share his love
(PNAN-ME) – The New York Times Book Review said about U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky recent volume of poetry: “Pinsky is our finest living specimen of this sadly rare…
Man-made works are touching views
(PNAN-ME) – Approached by the Limited Editions Club of New York in early 1941, Edward Weston was commissioned to make photographs to illustrate its deluxe edition of Walt Whitman’s…
Winter show surveys a ‘genius’ works
    (PNAN-ME) “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008†exhibition goes on view Thursday, December 16 at the Portland Museum of Art, featuring paintings more than 30 major works ranging from the…
Who would know in a rush?
(PNAN-ME) Opening Saturday, October 30, in conjunction with “John Haberle: American Master of Illusion” currently on view through December 12, “False Documents & Other Illusions” is the second Circa…
Pine Tree State artists chosen for show
(PNAN-ME) – If you were Jim Kempner of Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York, or David Row, a painter based in New York and Maine, or even Joanna…