One of Homer’s greatest works (if not one of the finest American landscape paintings of the 19th century), “Weatherbeaten” powerfully captures the fearsome beauty of coastal Maine.
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The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.
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The PMA’s Assistant Curator of American Art, Ramey Mize, spoke with News Center Maine about Passages in American Art.
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The PMA knows that art has a way of activating communities around social change and is hosting exhibitions […] examining the growing interconnectivity of major port cities, cultures, histories, and more.
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“Art takes so many different forms,” said Mize. “It’s not just a painting on a wall. That’s a big takeaway of this project.”
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An advisory committee shaped the project around three major themes – Maine’s role in transatlantic slavery, environmental change and the ongoing presence of Wabanaki and other Indigenous nations throughout North America. The resulting exhibit includes items that visitors will see for the first time and familiar works that will be framed in new ways.
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LEVER Architecture, noted for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is making its mark on the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—with a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.
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“Outside the Frame” makes plain how photography initiated as pure documentation can transmute into political commentary and critique when viewed through the lens of our contemporary consciousness.
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Visitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.
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With this complete reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Portland Museum of Art enters the expanding fray of American art museums interrogating their own historical collecting practices with a critical eye.
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Fill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.
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The "Museums for All" program allows everyone to see Maine's most treasured pieces, regardless of their financial situation.
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Again and again, one can feel Webb’s excitement and pleasure in recording what he’s seeing. He demonstrates an alertness to cultural collision and incongruity.
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The exhibit features art created by six young artists who, out of more than 500 entries, were selected as the winners of this year’s Tidal Shift Award.
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“American Perspectives” is chock full of inviting oddities and some truly great works, spanning nearly 2½ centuries, from rural to urban, north to south, east to west.
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Five hundred people enjoyed the Portland Museum of Art’s first Third Thursday on March 16, capturing the community’s love of First Friday art walks and happy hour hangouts all in one place.
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News Center Maine’s Hannah Yechivi spoke with young artists featured in the PMA’s Youth Art Month exhibition.
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High school student Brynn Vogel's artwork was selected for the Youth Art Month exhibit, one of the best-loved exhibits for both staff and patrons of the museum.
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Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa is on view at the PMA March 24 through June 18, 2023.
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“Because of the scale of my work, if I make something precious and detailed, it pulls you in. You stay longer and get sucked into my world.”
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