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.
Part of the Learning and Interpretation department’s mission is to create a platform for multiple perspectives. Art does not exist in a vacuum and reflects the time in which it was made. Likewise, all the content that we create reflects our current times.
Read MoreWas Wyeth a servant of his talent, when it should have been the other way around? That’s the sense I took away from “New Perspectives”: of a gifted technician trapped by his talent, and a dispiriting sense of what might have been.
Read More“It’s a great excuse to enjoy Portland without its summertime crowds, to eat exceptionally well in a place that Bon Appetit magazine named “The Restaurant City of the Year 2018” and to take in the work of this master. “
Read More“…the artist’s works remain enormously entertaining, and that’s reason enough to give them another look.”
Read More“The result is an exhibition of majestic proportions that offers a stunning and complicated portrait of the patriarch of America’s first family of Art.”
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