Portland Press Herald: See where some of Maine’s most famous artists worked

Visitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.

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Boston Globe: 10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer

With this complete reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Portland Museum of Art enters the expanding fray of American art museums interrogating their own historical collecting practices with a critical eye.

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Portland Press Herald: The must-see art exhibitions at Maine museums this year

Fill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.

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Chris Newell, Akomawt
endawnis Spears, Akomawt
Meadow Dibble, Atlantic Black Box
Seth Goldstein, Atlantic Black Box
Jordia Benjamin, Indigo Arts Alliance
Marcia Minter, Indigo Arts Alliance
Fiona Hopper, Portland Public Schools
Press Release: Portland Museum of Art announces the hire of Sayantan Mukhopadhyay as Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Mukhopadhyay will step into his new role in June.

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News Center Maine: Museums across Maine offer free, reduced admission for low-income families

The "Museums for All" program allows everyone to see Maine's most treasured pieces, regardless of their financial situation.

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Free Fridays

Visit the PMA with FREE admission every Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.!

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Collection Highlight: Denyse Thomasos’ "Lollipop Nation," 2009

Learn more about this collection highlight, now on view in the third floor of the Payson Building!

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Boston Globe: In Portland, looking back at a continent on the cusp of change

Again and again, one can feel Webb’s excitement and pleasure in recording what he’s seeing. He demonstrates an alertness to cultural collision and incongruity.

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Portland Press Herald: Portland Museum of Art exhibit delivers environmental messages from young artists

The exhibit features art created by six young artists who, out of more than 500 entries, were selected as the winners of this year’s Tidal Shift Award.

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A Tree is a Home to All

If I was a tree, what would I be? If I was a tree who might live in me, beside me, beneath me? If I was a tree, what might I see? Read the renga poem that you created on Family Day that was inspired by these questions!

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Storytelling in “American Perspectives”

As we enter the final days of American Perspectives on view, learn about how this collection came to be on view at the PMA, the theme of storytelling throughout, and what defines “folk art.”

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