Arts & Leisure
Across the sea from York: take a tour of Celia Thaxter’s garden
It’s hard to believe that the lonely outcropping of rocky islands six miles offshore known as the Isles of Shoals once was frequented by famous artists such as author Nathaniel Hawthorne and painter Childe Hassam.Musician comes home with Sweet Crude Bill & the Nautical Lighthouse Society
Although Anne Bacon, who graduated from York High School in 1997 and lives in San Francisco, didn’t make it to her class reunion this year, she’s returning to the area as a member of the band, Sweet Crude Bill & the Lighthouse Nautical Society.Celebrate 140 at the George Marshall Store Gallery
The George Marshall Store, a picturesque building from the past that overlooks the York River, is turning 140 years old this year.York playwright featured in "Late Night Confessions"
The "Late Night Confessions" series comes to life on the Players' Ring stage from July 20 to 29 with three one-act plays of loss and love.Ogunquit Museum of American Art presents Michael Zaretsky
Internationally known concert violist Michael Zaretsky will perform J. S. Bach’s first three Cello Suites and Hindemith’s Sonata Opus 25 No. 1 for viola in the Sculpture Court of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.The Music Scene...
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Harrison Bird Brown Retrospective at Portland Museum of Art
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.OMAA offers a great opportunity to see rarely exhibited works by James Wyeth and more
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).Richard Lethem's arresting color-saturated reflections
"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.Telling the story of Ogunquit's heritage
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.Icons and surprises in Edward Hopper Retrospective at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Another Edward Hopper exhibit, one might ask of this acclaimed artist of the American scene.A must see: Stonecrop Gallery features fine art photography in a unique space
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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