"Right now, because of our growth, the real risk is not to build," Director Mark Bessire explained. "If museums don’t continue to grow, if you fall back, it can take a generation to recover."
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"The vision is more conceptual in that we want to be the center of the arts of our community. We want to be green, and we want to be sure everyone feels like it's their museum,” Bessire said.
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While at first glance the design proposals are visually quite different, they each promote similar themes, use sustainable materials, and wholeheartedly embrace unifying the campus buildings and the surrounding streetscape.
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Screening November 25-December 4, 2022 is The 22nd Annual Animation Show of Shows, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, Aftersun, and 5B (Free World AIDS Day screening with Frannie Peabody Center).
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Each of the four designs unveiled Friday depicts a large, contemporary and architecturally striking building that would be constructed on that site adjacent to what is known as the Payson building.
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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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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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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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On gifting her photography collection to the PMA, Glickman Lauder says, “It was where I wanted it to belong.”
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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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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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The reinterpreted Winslow Homer Studio experience has updated amenities, interactive activities, and immersive experiences for the 2023 season!
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“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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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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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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While the Portland Museum of Art displays works from her collection, the Maine Jewish Museum is showing her own photographs.
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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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