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By Hilary Nangle on December 20, 2012
Enlighten the dark days of winter with a visit to one of Maine’s museums. The summer crowds are gone, but the shows go on and many have special programs that complement them. Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport Bet you didn’t even think the PMM was open in winter with an especially appropriate exhibit. Keeping Warm explores [...]
Posted in Greater Portland, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Farnsworth Art Museum, Penobscot Marine Museum, Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Rockland, Searsport |
By Hilary Nangle on September 29, 2012
Maine artists are being showcased in exhibitions at both the Portland Museum of Art; the Farnsworth Museum, in Rockland; and the Colby Museum of Art, in Waterville. Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine opens at the Portland Museum of Art In conjunction with the opening of the newly restored Winslow Homer Studio, the Portland Museum of [...]
Posted in Activities, Greater Portland, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Colby College Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Rockland, Waterville, Winslow Homer Studio |
By Hilary Nangle on July 25, 2012
In September, the Portland Museum of Art will open the Prouts Neck studio where American painter Winslow Homer lived and painted many of his masterpieces from 1883 until his death in 1910. Already, contributing and household museum members have purchased many of the available tickets for the small-group, docent-led tours. On Aug. 1, sales open [...]
Posted in Activities, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Moon guidebook updates, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Black Point Inn, Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Winslow Homer Studio |
By Hilary Nangle on May 19, 2012
Make it a point to wander all the way to the fourth floor of the Portland Museum of Art to see Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend? On view through June 17, 2012, the photography exhibit by Hollander examines what happens when the Maine-based artist reaches across real time and space and connects [...]
Posted in Activities, Greater Portland, Maine Made, People, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Tanja Aleia Hollander |
By Hilary Nangle on January 24, 2012
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Film fans take note: On Friday, Feb. 3, the Farnsworth is kicking off a new program, Rockland Shorts: An International Film Series, with a screening at The Strand Theatre. The bimonthly series aims to show contemporary, probing, independent films that help define the digital generation with restriction of culture, format, [...]
Posted in Greater Portland, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Farnsworth Museum, Penobscot Marine Museum, Portland Museum of Art |
By Hilary Nangle on February 27, 2011
Oh dear! With the opening of Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940 at the Portland Museum of Art on June 4, I fear the rest of the world will be let in on one of Maine’s best kept secrets: The Phippsburg and Georgetown peninsulas. Historically known as Seguinland, these bony fingers reaching seaward from Bath [...]
Posted in Greater Portland, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Bath, Georgetown, Maine artists, Portland Museum of Art, Seguinland |
By Hilary Nangle on February 1, 2011
The first time I saw John Marin’s work, I was hooked, so I’m thrilled to learn that John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury will be exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art, June 23–Oct. 11, 2011. This show, which will focus on Marin’s career between 1933 and 1953, is the first in-depth examination of the artist [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Greater Portland, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged John Marin, Portland, Portland Museum of Art |
By Hilary Nangle on February 11, 2010
Get your tickets now for the Maine Bartenders Bash, A Celebration of the Spirit of Maine, presented by Cold River Vodka on Monday, March 1, the opening night of Maine Restaurant Week. The bash, at the Portland Museum of Art, will bring together more than a dozen bartenders to create cocktails using Cold River Vodka, [...]
Posted in Events | Tagged Cold River vodka, event details, Maine, Maine Bartenders Bash, Maine bartenders competition, Maine Restaurant Week, Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Preble Street Resource Center, Vote on favorite cocktail |
By Hilary Nangle on June 29, 2009
Brighten up this dismal weather with a stop or two or seven along the The Maine Art Museum Trail. Why: More than 53,000 works of art, from ancient to contemporary, are displayed at the seven leading art museums; that’s plenty to keep you busy and there have to be a few that are sunny and [...]
Posted in Free Stuff, Greater Portland, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches | Tagged bates college museum of art, bowdoin college museum of art, Colby College Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Free museums in Maine, Maine art, Maine art museum trail, Maine travel, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, University of Maine Museum of Art |
By Hilary Nangle on March 20, 2009
Tonight, and every Friday night from 5 to 9 p.m., the Portland Museum of Art is open free, courtesy of L.L. Bean. Inside is a topflight collection of American and impressionist masters and fine and decorative arts. Equally worth noting is the architecture: the award-winning Charles Shipman Payson building, designed by I. M. Pei and [...]
Posted in Free Stuff, Greater Portland, Shopping | Tagged Backstage Pass Rock & Roll photography exhibit, free admission to Portland Museum of Art, Maine travel, Portland Maine travel, Portland Museum of Art |
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