“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” is playing at the Portland Museum of Art’s Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium at 6 p.m. Thursday. Co-presented with Planned Parenthood of Maine, the film is rated PG-13 and runs an hour and 41 minutes.
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The Portland Museum of Art, which plans an expansion in coming years, has come up with a short list of architects. Earlier this year, the museum announced plans for an $85 million expansion at 142 Free St. that would incorporate the former home of the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine.
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PMA Director Mark Bessire joins Rob Caldwell on News Center Maine to announce the finalists of PMA’s International Design Competition.
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The Portland Museum of Art (PMA), Maine’s oldest and largest public art institution, has revealed a powerhouse shortlist of domestic and international architecture firms vying to helm a planned expansion project that, when complete, will see the 140-year-old museum’s Congress Square campus more than double in size.
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The museum has raised $30 million so far toward a $100 million campaign that would include construction of a new six- or seven-story building on its downtown campus, more than doubling its current space.
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The Portland Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the four world-class design teams shortlisted for its Campus Unification + Expansion International Design Competition, which will result in a new landmark building in the heart of downtown Portland, Maine.
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Translations for texts featured in Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford are available in Arabic, French, and Spanish.
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If you visit with a PMA member and join at any level, you both get a limited edition "Art is the Heart" tote bag, which is only available at the PMA!
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PMA Films presents “Uncharted Waters,” a film series inspired by Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.
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PMA Films is pleased to present two playful and dazzling works of surrealism in repertory on Sunday mornings in September.
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Her survey show at the Portland Museum of Art begins with a 1999 painting of a flying women, which was first shown at the museum in 2001, and continues through to swimmers in communal groupings and faceless people helping other people.
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In Portland, Maine, a reinstallation of American art galleries at the Portland Museum of Art focuses on such themes as the environmental and social impact of the coastal scenes depicted in nineteenth-century American painting as well as the broader histories and artistic traditions of First Nations artists in Maine.
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In this latest iteration of The Workshop diving into the exhibition Surrealist Play Gone Astray, our visitor understood the assignment and let their mind wander and embraced play to assemble some truly Surrealist artworks.
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Katherine Bradford’s journey was as unfathomable as the opaque purpled seas and dark skies in many of her paintings, but at 80, the artist, who as a young mother fled rural New England with her young children to live in New York City, has her first major museum survey this summer.
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Across more than 40 paintings, the show traces her technical evolution — from single subjects to ensembles, from oils to acrylics — as she returns to what she calls her “bag of tricks”: swimmers, caped superheroes, floating horizontal bodies.
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In the early 20th century, a group of artists called the Surrealists made visual art, literature, and theater inspired by humor, dreams, and randomness. Surrealist imagery combines and alters everyday objects in such a way that they become fantastic or unfamiliar. Surrealist artists played games alone and together to generate ideas for their artworks. Join us in letting your mind wander and embracing play to access your creativity!
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Learn more about Lauren Fensterstock’s When a Third Sun, a mosaic work inspired by the Buddha’s “Sermon of the Seven Suns,” in which he describes a series of suns appearing one by one, each having a different impact on the ecological landscape.
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“Woman Flying,” the 1999 painting that inspired the show’s title, is now in the PMA collection. It depicts a nude, red-caped woman trying to fly. That’s what Bradford has been doing for more than 40 years and she has succeeded. At 80, she is going like 60.
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