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From features and behind the scenes, to news, announcements, and more—it’s all here at PMA Magazine.

  • Portland Museum of Art Announces $85 Million Campus Unification Project And New Vision For Museums, Backed By Community And Collection

    February 14, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art believes museums need a paradigm shift that delivers on the...

  • PMA announces the hire of Ramey Mize as Assistant Curator of American Art

    February 4, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art is proud to announce the hire of Ramey Mize as...

  • Recent Acquisition: “Are You Happy” by Eleanor Kipping

    February 2, 2022

    Eleanor Kipping explores the experience of the Black diasporic female body in the United States...

  • PMA, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Bildmuseet announce artists for North Atlantic Triennial: Down Иorth

    January 26, 2022

    Featuring both emerging and more established artists living today, the exhibition presents 21st-century art from...

  • Midday Mindfulness

    January 20, 2022

    Looking at art can help us slow down, reflect, focus on the present, and connect....

  • Judy Glickman Lauder Makes Transformative Promised Gift Of More Than 600 Photographs To The Portland Museum of Art

    January 18, 2022

    The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is proud to announce that Judy Glickman Lauder—photographer, collector,...

  • Recent Acquisition: “The Finishing Line (Au But)” by Alfred Boucher

    January 7, 2022

    Alfred Boucher’s sculpture The Finishing Line (Au But) depicts three athletes in the final moments...

  • Recent Acquisition: “This Could All Be Yours” by Derrick Adams

    August 19, 2021

    Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture builds lifelong relationships with its alumni and often collaborates...

  • Recent Acquisition: “Study Near Warwick, New York” by David Johnson

    July 26, 2021

    David Johnson’s Study Near Warwick, New York represents a view from the East Side of...

  • Staff Favorite: Greg Norstrom on Patrick Jacobs’ “Fly Agaric Mushroom Cluster with Branch and Lichen”

    July 9, 2021

    I must have walked past this piece a number of times before I even knew it existed! It is such...