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.
In a year in which a major pandemic disrupted exhibition calendars at museums throughout the world, it is also thanks to the generosity and flexibility of the Thon bequest that we were able to quickly pivot to a juried exhibition of artworks made in Maine in 2020.
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