Boston Globe: At the Portland Museum of Art, the gift of ‘Presence’

It’s one thing to look at pictures when they’re in front of you. It’s quite another to have them stay in your mind’s eye.

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A Life of Light: Judy Glickman Lauder & the Power of Photography

Derived from Greek, the word ‘photography’ translates to drawing with light, and for Judy Glickman Lauder—artist, humanitarian, and philanthropist—capturing the light has been a constant of her entire life.

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Artscope magazine: Choice exhibitions beckon in Maine and New Hampshire

The PMA’s show, “The Draftsman in Society: German Expressionist Prints,” on view through December 11, features German artists in the early 20th century who worked in a period of social and political crisis marked by military conflict, shifting social class dynamics and economic upheaval.

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Artnet: How Judy Glickman Lauder Went From Child Kodak Model to a Top Collector of Black-and-White Photography

On gifting her photography collection to the PMA, Glickman Lauder says, “It was where I wanted it to belong.”

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Collection Highlight: "Gulf Hagas" by Joel Babb

Babb’s painting not only compounds times of day to capture the spirit of this Maine brook, but it continues the legacy of early American landscape painting with its emphasis on silence, grandeur, and sublimity.

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PMA Films: A delightful South Korean comedy about the impulse to create art

Our PMA Films screenings for November 11-20, 2022 include The Novelist’s Film, The Salt of the Earth, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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Introducing the New Winslow Homer Studio Tour Experience

The reinterpreted Winslow Homer Studio experience has updated amenities, interactive activities, and immersive experiences for the 2023 season!

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New York Times: After a Covid Contraction, Museums Are Expanding Again

“The concept we’re working on is trying to put creativity on display and making the program more visible, making people the center of the building,” said Mark Bessire, the museum’s director. “Because of Covid and the social justice movement, our community was like, ‘Let’s turn the museum inside out.’”

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Press Release: Portland Museum of Art Unveils Four Concepts for its New Building and Campus Unification from International Design Competition Finalists

On November 18, the Portland Museum of Art will host a free community event to welcome the four finalist architect-led design teams and their visions for the future of the PMA and Portland, Maine.

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Boston Globe: 10 must-see museum shows from Massachusetts to Maine

Lauder spent considerable time behind the camera herself, honing her eye, and the standout collection shows it: The show includes well-known pictures by such photographers as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee — and Glickman Lauder herself.

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Portland Press Herald Art review: See the effect of Judy Glickman Lauder’s influences in concurrent photo shows

While the Portland Museum of Art displays works from her collection, the Maine Jewish Museum is showing her own photographs.

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“Winslow Homer: Force of Nature” at The National Gallery

Assistant Curator of American Art Ramey Mize shares insights about Homer while at his studio home in Prouts Neck, Maine, for the National Gallery’s video for the exhibition Force of Nature.

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October Photography Programming

With Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder opening on September 30, 2022, we’re excited for a photography-filled fall with programs you won’t want to miss.

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ArtForum: Reviews - North Atlantic Triennial

Co-organized by the Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; and the Reykjavík Art Museum, the inaugural North Atlantic Triennial was billed as “the first exhibition devoted entirely to contemporary art of the North Atlantic region.”

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Portland Press Herald Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific

“Surrealist Play Gone Astray” at the Portland Museum of Art (through Oct. 23) is a jewel of a show about this emphatically eccentric movement, which was concentrated mainly in Europe, but spread worldwide, notably to Mexico.

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Portland Phoenix: Portland Museum of Art’s autumn of patronage

After devoting the spring and summer to contemporary art in the form of the North Atlantic Triennial and the superb Katherine Bradford exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art is delving into the past in a serious way with a trio of fall exhibitions featuring gifts and loans from some of its biggest patrons.

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An artwork a day keeps the doctors engaged

Learn how visual art and narrative medicine are improving patient care and the mental health of their providers.

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