With a brand-new format and a muck-boot–sporting curator, the ninth iteration of the Portland Museum of Art Biennial comes into its own.
Another year, another Down East Best of Maine Readers’ Choice poll. Some 5,000 of you cast a ballot this year, and you’re an opinionated bunch. The results include some newcomers in their categories and some stalwart shoo-ins that just can’t seem to lose.
A gritty, hard-working island attracts unconventional artists by allowing them to focus on what matters most.
The Colby College Museum of Art comes of age with a beautiful new wing that houses an extraordinary act of generosity.
Warren sculptor Jay Sawyer melds his work with his land in a way that brings out the best in both.
The Portland Museum of Art takes a career-spanning look at the work of Rose Marasco, one of Maine’s most accomplished — and eclectic — photographers.
Diagnosed with ALS, acclaimed painter Jon Imber reached ever deeper into his creative well.
Artists Todd Watts and Jemma Gascoine traded the big city for a tiny village.
Maine’s hulking natural monolith has inspired landscape painters for well over a century.
Artist Francis Hamabe came to love Maine as much as Maine loved him. In this excerpt from his new book,...