The New Criterion: Heroes forever and ever

Thirty years of canvases—likable, honest, and lively to a one—justify themselves on the museum walls of the PMA’s “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”

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Hyperallergic: The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford

In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.

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Two Coats of Paint: Five Things: Katherine Bradford at Portland Museum of Art

Check out visitors Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher’s review of Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford on the art blog Two Coats of Paint.

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Remembering Jim Houle

We at the PMA are grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to work with Jim and will miss his quiet humor and his friendship.

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Sarah Sockbeson: In and Beyond the Basket Woods

“A day never goes by that I am not mindful of my ancestors and their efforts to protect and preserve our traditions. It’s what has afforded me the opportunity to practice a traditional art and do what I love for a living.” —Sarah Sockbeson

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Portland Press Herald: Art review: Maine museums offer a survey of the state’s art history this fall

Opening Nov. 4 (through Mar. 5) is “Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many/Headscapes.” It’s an apt follow-up to Bradford in that Butterly’s work often exemplifies our unceasing state of transformation.

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Portland Press Herald: Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art Exhibit Inspires Colorful Summer Party

Portland Museum of Art treated its Contemporaries and Director’s Circle members on Aug. 10 to a playful, colorful and bold Summer Party, loosely inspired by the exhibit “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford.”

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365Traveler: 20 Outstanding Things To Do In Portland Maine

“Portland is bursting with creativity, arts, and culture and it can’t wait to inspire you. While the Portland Museum of Art is the largest and oldest art museum in the state of Maine, it truly offers guests a great outlook on World Art.”

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Maine Magazine: Shifting Sequences: 2022 Juried Artist Exhibition

Anjuli Lebowitz, The PMA’s Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, is on the judging panel for Maine Magazine’s up-and-coming Maine artists feature.

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Collection Highlight: "Turtle Knows Your Name"

Discover more about the vibrant painting Turtle Knows Your Name by Ashley Bryan, now on view on the fourth floor of the Payson Building!

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Maine Home and Design: An Exhibit from Maine - Artist Katherine Bradford Takes Flight

How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

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Brooklyn Rail: Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford

“Full circle” is the phrase that comes to mind apropos Katherine Bradford’s exhibition Flying Women at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized by Jaime DeSimone, these forty or so paintings span twenty-two years of her life as an artist, an existence that began much earlier in Maine when she was a wife and mother of young twins.

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New Yorker: Race, War, and Winslow Homer

The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.

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Hyperallergic: The Unseen Depths of Winslow Homer's "The Gulf Stream"

In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.

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Financial Times: Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents – America's powerful painter of rage and fate

The Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures.

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The Wall Street Journal: ‘Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents’ Review: Timeless Scenes of Conflict

“Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents,” a compelling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized by the Met’s Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount with Christopher Riopelle of the National Gallery, London, examines almost 90 of the artist’s works within current political and social contexts.

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Washington Post: A thrilling new take on Winslow Homer — America’s favorite artist

The Met’s show, which was organized by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount and will travel to the National Gallery in London, is the largest overview of Homer’s career since a 1995 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

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Portland Museum of Art Announces Participation in Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership

The Portland Museum of Art is excited to announce its participation in the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative art lending model that allows artworks from a diverse group of museums to travel the country.

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Portland Press Herald: See famous paintings by Maine masters at these state parks

The Portland Museum of Art has partnered with Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands and Freeport retailer L.L. Bean this summer and fall to temporarily install 25 reproductions of paintings from its permanent collection at state-managed parks in southern and coastal Maine.

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ArchDaily: MVRDV, Adjaye Associates, LEVER Architecture, and Toshiko Mori Shortlisted for the Portland Museum of Art Expansion

The Portland Museum of Art, along with architects from Dovetail Design Strategists have announced four renowned architecture firms shortlisted for the unification and expansion of Portland Museum of Art’s new campus in the heart of Downtown Portland, Maine.

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