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This month presents the opening of Jeremy Frey: Woven, the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States.
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We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
Join us on the Third Floor for a guided discussion led in American Sign Language by Meli Stamp!. Closed Voice interpreting also provided.
Together we’ll plant 500 trees in Maine as part of Living Lands & Waters’ national Two Million Trees project. chickadeeds will be distributing trees from the front plaza of the museum!
Join Mark Bessire, Director of the Portland Museum of Art, as he sits down with Portland Press Herald CEO Lisa DeSisto for a conversation about leadership, Portland, and our business and cultural community.
We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Council Opening Reception for Jeremy Frey: Woven.
Business Partners, start your morning with a little coffee, networking, and Jeremy Frey: Woven
Enjoy an evening exploring the galleries, taking in Jeremy Frey: Woven, and connecting with colleagues and PMA Learning & Community Collaboration staff.
Join Erin Damon, Director of Collections and Head Registrar, for an in-gallery tour about collection care of artwork seen in Jeremy Frey: Woven.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.
The museum has a collection of 19,000 objects and counting, and only a fraction are on display at any given time. We look at how these pieces get to the museum and where they go when they're not on display.
Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process.
[Fragments of Epic Memory is] a celebration of kaleidoscopic talent and – with its companion display of 19th-century photography – extraordinary resilience.
The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine.
“This is a big shift,” said Shalini Le Gall, the museum’s chief curator. “I’m an art historian, but art history is not the only way to access art in a museum. We want to show people that art by its nature is not stable, and the scope of interpretation will always be changing.”
Tours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.
When the French-born, Harlem-based artist Elizabeth Colomba starts an oil painting, she does so like the masters.
The show reveals the untold stories of stewards and students, the shadowed innovation, and the profound impact a small school in Rockport, Maine has had on photography.
A Portland Museum of Art exhibit takes a snapshot of a half-century of boundary-blurring photo workshops in Rockport.
The Portland Museum of Art has expanded a program that showcases its collection to people enjoying the outdoors.
Taken together, “Drawn to the Light” and “People Watching” provide an insightful selection of fine art photographs and make the point that Maine holds a significant place in contemporary photography.
The PMA has placed more than two dozen replicas of its collection outdoors. Most of the original pieces can be seen inside the walls of the museum, and this project is a way for Mainers and tourists to enjoy some of the art the museum has to offer as they walk, run, jog, and enjoy the great outdoors.
By bringing out the big guns, the show seeks to attract a wide audience, of course, but also show the outsized, cross-pollinating impact the little Maine school has had on the photographic world over the years.
The show includes almost 100 photographs from nearly 80 photographers, as well as a selection of Workshops-related publications.
It’s a show where labels really matter because they give new, contemporary context with which to consider the works on view. They really push us to think in new ways about who gets to write the history of art in America, who was left out of it and how that is – thankfully – changing.
With a nod toward the Portland Museum of Art’s lasting influence on producer [Karlina] Lyons, the film is coming to Portland as part of a 10-city U.S. tour.
One of Homer’s greatest works (if not one of the finest American landscape paintings of the 19th century), “Weatherbeaten” powerfully captures the fearsome beauty of coastal Maine.
The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.
The PMA’s Assistant Curator of American Art, Ramey Mize, spoke with News Center Maine about Passages in American Art.
The PMA knows that art has a way of activating communities around social change and is hosting exhibitions […] examining the growing interconnectivity of major port cities, cultures, histories, and more.
“Art takes so many different forms,” said Mize. “It’s not just a painting on a wall. That’s a big takeaway of this project.”
An advisory committee shaped the project around three major themes – Maine’s role in transatlantic slavery, environmental change and the ongoing presence of Wabanaki and other Indigenous nations throughout North America. The resulting exhibit includes items that visitors will see for the first time and familiar works that will be framed in new ways.
LEVER Architecture, noted for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is making its mark on the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—with a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.
“Outside the Frame” makes plain how photography initiated as pure documentation can transmute into political commentary and critique when viewed through the lens of our contemporary consciousness.
Visitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.
With this complete reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Portland Museum of Art enters the expanding fray of American art museums interrogating their own historical collecting practices with a critical eye.
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Each year, thousands of people come to the museum to experience breathtaking floral designs—all inspired by artworks in the PMA collection, btw—and take part in a wide array of special, springtime programming. Be sure to visit Wednesday, March 20 through Sunday, March 24, and don’t miss some of these highlights!
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98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.
The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.
173 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Edward Yang’s final masterpiece follows a middle-class Taipei family over the course of one year. Widely considered one of the best films of the 21st century, Yi Yi placed in the top 100 greatest films of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll.
98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.
The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.
164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.
164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.
164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.
113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.
The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.
113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.
The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.
113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.
The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.
113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.
The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
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