Anjuli Lebowitz, The PMA’s Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, is on the judging panel for Maine Magazine’s up-and-coming Maine artists feature.
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How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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“Full circle” is the phrase that comes to mind apropos Katherine Bradford’s exhibition Flying Women at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized by Jaime DeSimone, these forty or so paintings span twenty-two years of her life as an artist, an existence that began much earlier in Maine when she was a wife and mother of young twins.
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The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
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In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
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The Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures.
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“Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents,” a compelling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized by the Met’s Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount with Christopher Riopelle of the National Gallery, London, examines almost 90 of the artist’s works within current political and social contexts.
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The Met’s show, which was organized by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount and will travel to the National Gallery in London, is the largest overview of Homer’s career since a 1995 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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The Portland Museum of Art is excited to announce its participation in the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative art lending model that allows artworks from a diverse group of museums to travel the country.
Read MoreThe Portland Museum of Art has partnered with Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands and Freeport retailer L.L. Bean this summer and fall to temporarily install 25 reproductions of paintings from its permanent collection at state-managed parks in southern and coastal Maine.
Read MoreThe Portland Museum of Art, along with architects from Dovetail Design Strategists have announced four renowned architecture firms shortlisted for the unification and expansion of Portland Museum of Art’s new campus in the heart of Downtown Portland, Maine.
Read More“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” is playing at the Portland Museum of Art’s Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium at 6 p.m. Thursday. Co-presented with Planned Parenthood of Maine, the film is rated PG-13 and runs an hour and 41 minutes.
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The Portland Museum of Art, which plans an expansion in coming years, has come up with a short list of architects. Earlier this year, the museum announced plans for an $85 million expansion at 142 Free St. that would incorporate the former home of the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine.
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PMA Director Mark Bessire joins Rob Caldwell on News Center Maine to announce the finalists of PMA’s International Design Competition.
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The Portland Museum of Art (PMA), Maine’s oldest and largest public art institution, has revealed a powerhouse shortlist of domestic and international architecture firms vying to helm a planned expansion project that, when complete, will see the 140-year-old museum’s Congress Square campus more than double in size.
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The museum has raised $30 million so far toward a $100 million campaign that would include construction of a new six- or seven-story building on its downtown campus, more than doubling its current space.
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The Portland Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the four world-class design teams shortlisted for its Campus Unification + Expansion International Design Competition, which will result in a new landmark building in the heart of downtown Portland, Maine.
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Her survey show at the Portland Museum of Art begins with a 1999 painting of a flying women, which was first shown at the museum in 2001, and continues through to swimmers in communal groupings and faceless people helping other people.
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In Portland, Maine, a reinstallation of American art galleries at the Portland Museum of Art focuses on such themes as the environmental and social impact of the coastal scenes depicted in nineteenth-century American painting as well as the broader histories and artistic traditions of First Nations artists in Maine.
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Katherine Bradford’s journey was as unfathomable as the opaque purpled seas and dark skies in many of her paintings, but at 80, the artist, who as a young mother fled rural New England with her young children to live in New York City, has her first major museum survey this summer.
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