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 their most ambitious joint project to date, the couple have reimagined the religious tabernacle – in Christianity, a sacred meeting place for worship, in Judaism, a portable tent used as a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant – as a communal space where visitors can, explains Moyer, “gain sustenance as a community with naturally occurring differences.”
Read MoreAs one of the PMA’s marquee programs, The Barnet Scholars Lecture is designed to have an established scholar lead conversations with museum colleagues on topics related to 20th-century American art.
Read MoreTaking place March 5 through June 4 in conjunction with Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, artists, scholars, makers, performers, students, and social organizations will delve into a wide variety of topics from crocheting to community organizing.
Read MoreThe Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund honors artists whose commitment to social justice is manifested in their work.
Read MoreDo you know the term “biophilia”? It’s the idea that people want to have an engagement with the natural world, and if Art in Bloom—the PMA's annual pairing of art and floral designs—is any indication, it’s having a moment.
Read More“…creates a place where people can congregate as a community and talk about how they want to live.”
Read MoreThe PMA’s Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times and Mythmakers: The Art of Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer make artnet’s “can’t miss list” for 2020.
Read MoreThis February school vacation week, the PMA is here to help you out with your winter doldrums with special open hours and family programming that includes artmaking activities for kids and adults.
Read MoreOne of the biggest parties of the year and the perfect place to meet like-minded leaders, coming together to champion our region’s unique culture.
Read MorePart 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 MoreCurators from the three museums will introduce the North Atlantic Triennial project Friday afternoon in Portland.
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“To me, there’s the sense of an exposé — Kjartansson laying bare a suite of visual techniques designed to convince, to provoke, to arouse. It’s cold and calculating. It’s too perfect.”
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.”
Read MoreKjartansson received the prize for his presentation of The Boat, one of nine videos from the “Scenes from Western Culture”
Read MoreThe PMA's flagship annual event, welcoming visionary cultural leaders, scholars, and thinkers to Maine.
Read MoreWe transformed one of our most iconic landscape paintings, Winslow Homer’s Weatherbeaten, into a coloring book page, and asked visitors to test out the implications of color for themselves. Adults and children alike created almost 2,000 versions of this painting.
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