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.
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.
Read MoreWhile the Portland Museum of Art displays works from her collection, the Maine Jewish Museum is showing her own photographs.
Read MoreCo-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.”
Read More“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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreThirty 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.”
Read MoreIn Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
Read MoreCheck 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.
Read MoreOpening 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.
Read MorePortland 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.”
Read More“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.”
Read MoreAnjuli 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.
Read MoreHow 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.”
Read More“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.
Read MoreThe artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
Read MoreIn this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures.
Read More“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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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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