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Tanja Hollander takes Facebook to the PMA

If you've been buzzing about "Are You Really My Friend?" the new installation of Facebook-inspired portraits by local photographer and Bakery Photo Collective founder Tanja Alexia Hollander, you're not alone.
Friend quest
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 10, 2012

A peek at Portland art shows in 2012

Degas and the PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART headline the news for early next year. We're so used to Degas and his point of view it's easy to overlook what a difficult and radical artist he really was.
Radicals and friends
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 30, 2011

Memories from a year in art shows

It was a year when the best shows weren't often the most memorable, and the most memorable weren't often the best.
Fine lines
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 23, 2011

The Portland Museum of Art shows an exhibit of Shaker crafting skill

There's something fundamentally American about this very enjoyable show of Shaker work at the Portland Museum of Art.
Honoring simplicity
By KEN GREENLEAF | November 04, 2011

Photos: ''Gather Up the Pieces: The Andrews Shaker Collection'' at the Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art hosts “Gather Up the Pieces: The Andrews Shaker Collection’’ through February 5, 2012.
Through February 5, 2012
By PHOENIX STAFF | November 04, 2011

Review: Museum Café

In the long transition by which medieval mysticism gave way to modern rationality and bureaucratic efficiency, the placement of clocks on church steeples was a profound milestone.
Sampling the artistic institution's take on food
By BRIAN DUFF | October 07, 2011

Statewide exhibit series winds down; are photos next up?

The fall months of 2011 have much to share for contemporary art lovers.
Drawing conclusions
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | September 16, 2011

Review: PMA show highlights Marin's modernist excellence

For the first half of the 20th century John Marin (1870-1953) was considered one of the foremost American modernist painters, and this fine show of some 50 of his later works at the Portland Museum of Art gives us a good idea why.
Meeting a master
By KEN GREENLEAF | July 15, 2011

Review: Two promising young artists at Corey Daniels Gallery

One of the joys of a Maine summer is discovering great shows in unlikely places.
Solid engagement
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 03, 2011

Touring the PMA's Biennial

The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
The Phoenix's art writers discuss the pros and cons of the year's biggest show
By ANNIE LARMON AND NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 15, 2011

Review: The Elephant In the Living Room

There are more tigers in Texas than in India, according to Michael Webber's award-wining documentary, The Elephant In the Living Room , which plays next weekend at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art.
Documentary investigates the suburban animal kingdom
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 15, 2011

A look at Portland's graffiti history

Back in the early '90s, Eli Cayer had just finished art school in Boston and headed to Maine, where he continued creating street art.
City walls
By JEFF INGLIS | April 01, 2011

Review: 'European Drawings' at the Portland Museum of Art

"European Drawings" is the Portland Museum of Art's contribution to "Where to Draw the Line: the Maine Drawing Project," a year-long series of historical and contemporary drawing exhibitions at 16 Maine galleries and art institutions.
Historic drawings sketch the way to greater art
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 01, 2011

Review: A two-artist show at Aucocisco explores the human form

Like a sort of late-winter Frankenstein, Aucocisco's "Corporeal" exhibition is assembled from work both new and old from two distinct artists in their prime, each offering a grand centerpiece and detailed thematic series in a thoughtful investigation of
Work of body
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 25, 2011

A Rackstraw Downes retrospective at the PMA

The first thing you notice about the Rackstraw Downes exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art is how abstract these paintings are.
Conceptual reality
By KEN GREENLEAF | January 21, 2011

Odd year ahead for museums and galleries

Remember, for every droopy tarp stalactite that makes it into a museum lobby installation, there are dozens of similar (and similarly impressive) creatures that never leave a studio wall.
2011 brings the Biennial and much more
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 31, 2010

The year in Portland's art scene

For lovers of spectacle, 2010 offered a lot of feasts. A fine collection of installations and site-specific works graced the greater city in 2010, challenging our perceptions and changing our surroundings.
'In'-stallations
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 24, 2010

Jenny Holzer's projections remake buildings

Jenny Holzer is not an architect, but in 2004, when she projected those words onto the stone facade of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan's Times Square, the historic building acquired a character it had never before seen.
Big words
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | December 03, 2010

Review: Dancin' just thinkin' about it

Whether it was hilariously gruesome female assassins or the soft-touch smiles of a family enjoying daily life, the fifth annual Portland Phoenix Maine Short Film Festival spanned genres well. We had roller-skating, pantomiming, art-creating, cannibalist
Our fifth annual short-film festival really moves
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | November 26, 2010

All-day screening of The Cremaster Cycle at the Portland Museum of Art

We covered it in detail last week, but don't forget the all-day screening of Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle today at Movies at the Museum...
By webteam | November 17, 2010

Cinematic excess

Eight years after its completion, The Cremaster Cycle , Matthew Barney's interminable multi-media opus, continues to befuddle and intrigue audiences.
Matthew Barney's seven-hour Cremaster Cycle descends in the Portland Museum of Art
By ANNIE LARMON | November 12, 2010

Art review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions'

In the art of deception lies the potential to destabilize perceptions of reality, if only momentarily.
Closer inspection
By ANNIE LARMON | November 05, 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop screens at the Portland Museum of Art

Though it's playing all weekend, the crucial viewing of Exit Through the Gift Shop might fit best into your schedule today. Of particular interest to...
By webteam | September 21, 2010

Fall Art Preview: Rising to the challenge

Last weekend’s Block Party was a charming and invigorating celebration of Portland’s art community. The interactive evening, spearheaded by SPACE Gallery, set an ambitious standard for what’s to come on the art front rounding out this year.
Museums, galleries, and artists ready for fall shows
By ANNIE LARMON | September 17, 2010

Fall Film Preview: Underground big-screen shows

One of the happiest and most unexpected developments in local arts culture over the past year has been the subtle yet persistent proliferation of DIY and/or locally-oriented movie nights in the area.
The local film scene revs up for fall
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 17, 2010

Block Party celebrates, consumes the Arts District on Saturday

The first time SPACE Gallery closed off a chunk of Congress Street, in 2005, they filled it with sod grass and turned it into an urban lawn. The second, a year later, inflated plastic structures dotted the Arts District. This Saturday — in theme, in spi
Square roots
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 10, 2010

Anna Hepler at the Portland Museum of Art

Happy First Friday, everyone. First off, if you haven't yet, now's the time to check out Anna Hepler's exhibition/installation "Makeshift" at the Portland Museum of...
By webteam | August 04, 2010

Out of this world

"The Great Haul" plunges from the 22-foot-high clerestory of the Portland Museum of Art's entryway, a tear-dropped fishnet that resolves just before it touches the ground.
Found objects and items rise into new life in Anna Hepler's solo show at the Portland Museum of Art
By ANNIE LARMON | July 30, 2010

Homer's home

A hundred years after his death, Winslow Homer is still making waves.
The PMA shows the Maine coastal artist at work
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 18, 2010

Rain check

We have just the thing to cure your summer-vacation blues: Maine, from the inside.
When bad weather strikes, just go indoors!
By ANDREW STEINBEISER | June 18, 2010

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