In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine.
Read MoreSubmissions are now closed for Art in Bloom 2024.
Read MoreGive a year’s worth of art experiences with a gift membership.
Read MoreMake your own waterless snow globe as a fun decoration for the holiday season!
Read MoreThe first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in an American fine art museum set to debut in 2024.
Third Thursdays are now free for all, all day!
Read MoreTake a look into the process behind reimagining the Winslow Homer Studio and bringing tours back to Prouts Neck.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to say that we are now able to offer a better, more engaging experience for all at PMA Films and beyond in our Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium.
Read More“This is a big shift,” said Shalini Le Gall, the museum’s chief curator. “I’m an art historian, but art history is not the only way to access art in a museum. We want to show people that art by its nature is not stable, and the scope of interpretation will always be changing.”
Read MoreFragments blends historical and contemporary narratives through more than 100 photographs from the AGO’s Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings and video works by modern and contemporary artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Read MoreTours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.
Read MoreThis exciting new addition to the collection will enable the PMA to tell a richer, more dynamic story of women’s contributions to neoclassical sculpture, transatlantic art movements, and American art more broadly.
Read MoreCommunity Programs Specialist Gabby Chase visited Boston museums to connect with fellow museum education colleagues.
Read MoreWith nearly 90% of the land covered in forests and a robust forestry infrastructure, Maine is the right place for a CLT plant.
Read MoreWhen the French-born, Harlem-based artist Elizabeth Colomba starts an oil painting, she does so like the masters.
Read MoreThe show reveals the untold stories of stewards and students, the shadowed innovation, and the profound impact a small school in Rockport, Maine has had on photography.
Read MoreWhen visiting the museum in preparation for Elizabeth Colomba’s Mythologies, something unusual caught the artist’s eye: the McLellan House wallpaper.
Read MoreExploring Rockland, Maine and the tremendous impact it left on photography for half a century.
Read MoreGet to know a few of the Maine Media Workshops + College photographers in connection to the exhibition, Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College.
Read MoreA Portland Museum of Art exhibit takes a snapshot of a half-century of boundary-blurring photo workshops in Rockport.
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