Arts & Leisure

MUSIC AT MOODY HALL. This Saturday, July 14, the Tim Janis Ensemble will be performing live at the First Parish Church’s Moody Hall. Janis, pictured here, not only has strong ties to the York community but is internationally known for his evocative music and for his commitment to using music to make a difference for people in need. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. and tickets are $20 each. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 363-1202. Courtesy photo
What a transformation! While Mayfair will open for regular public tours from July 14 to Aug. 11, you have the chance to be a part of an evening like no other before the Show House opens while helping to raise funds for a worthy cause. This is, perhaps, a long overdue tribute to one of Portland’s important painters, a man whose paintings sold well during most of his productive lifetime and whose legacy involves the history of art in Maine’s most important city. the rhythmic "tap, tap, tap" of tap dancing? This week's happenings

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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). "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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