In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
“There is no place, even in New York City, where one can currently see a representative selection of the exciting and important paintings that have been done from the 1980s to the present. By helping to create a collection of these works at the Portland Museum of Art, the Alex Katz Foundation hopes to contribute to rectifying this situation.”—Alex Katz
Read More