Arts & Leisure

The work of four artists currently on view in the George Marshall Store Gallery promises to be pleasing to a wide range of artistic taste. The credit goes to Curator Mike Culver, who has assembled an impressive collection of fine art for the inaugural 2007 exhibitions at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA). Michael Culver, executive director and curator of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, who has brought us this extraordinary 2007 exhibit featuring paintings by Jamie Wyeth, is a well-rounded art professional, one who wears many hats. This past Friday, June 29, through the program entitled "Live at the Library", a staged reading of local resident Michael Kimball's play, "The Secret of Comedy" attracted a large turnout of friends and residents to appreciate a new play during one phase in its development. A local teenager who spent five months of his junior year studying in Beijing, China, will be displaying an exhibition of photographs that he took during his trip at the York Public Library beginning next week. This week's happenings

Ongoing

"The Shape We're In," taken from a title of his novelist son Jonathan Lethem's recent book, is the name Berwick artist Richard Lethem has assigned to the York Public Library's ongoing exhibition of his art consisting of oils, acrylics (mostly), watercolors and mixed media works in which swirls, curves and broad sweeps of brilliant color transmit dynamic motion, unsettling character and diabolical inferences. Once upon a time there was a village by the sea, where quaint fishing shacks dotted the cove and generations of the same families made their living harvesting the ocean waters. Another Edward Hopper exhibit, one might ask of this acclaimed artist of the American scene. On the rocky ledge jutting up on the Atlantic Ocean side of Shore Road just at the Cape Neddick and Ogunquit line, small, yellow flowers called stonecrop blossomed in the dry soil in crags that cut into the cliff face.


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