Category: Arts

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A journey to the ends of the Earth

The reader experiences, through Rush, the surprise and wonder of discovering how the scientists gather soil cores, how and why they collect animal bits from an island, their anxiety when they lose touch with an underwater remote vehicle... SEE MORE

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Tom Moore, unleashed

Moore also broaches intimations of mortality, at times tongue in cheek, at others, not so. In “Going Back: Getting Lost in Heaven” he moves from describing a house he built—“I cut studs and toe-nailed them”—to the “terrible signage” he finds in heaven. SEE MORE

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Inside an islander’s mind

One of the shorter poems, “Modern Man Is Monstrous, Let’s Not Forget,” begins: “Seems like any time I have a minute/to relax here goes somebody all dressed up/on TV talking about the end of time.” These ideas are in themselves quirkily disconnected. SEE MORE
N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945), “Maine Headland, Black Head, Monhegan Island,” ca. 1936–1938, oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 52 1/4 inches, Bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Noyce, 1997.

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Farnsworth shows coastal Wyeths

The Farnsworth Art Museum is presenting The Wyeths: Impressions of Coastal Maine, beginning Oct. 26 through Dec. 31. The exhibition presents paintings by N.C., Andrew, and James “Jamie” Wyeth, inviting viewers into the serene and evocative landscapes of Maine’s Midcoast, including Rockland, Tenants Harbor, and Port Clyde. These communities, which… SEE MORE
Lee Krasner’s “Untitled,” alternative study for mural studioA, WNYC (1941).

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Ogunquit museum shows Krasner’s work

Krasner’s serious engagement with abstraction began in 1937 when she enrolled in New York’s Hofmann School of the Fine Arts. From the late 1930s until her marriage to painter Jackson Pollock in 1945, she developed an artistic vocabulary that would be sustained throughout her career. SEE MORE