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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 Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, for an in-gallery tour of + collection.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
Join Mark Bessire, Judy and Leonard Lauder Director of the Portland Museum of Art, for an in-gallery tour of + collection.
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.
We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
Join Kirk Hoffman, Chief Preparator, for an in-gallery tour about collection care of permanent collection artwork.
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.
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 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.
Fill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.
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99 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Ilker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An idealistic young teacher is rattled after a series of thefts in her German middle school. Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
99 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Ilker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An idealistic young teacher is rattled after a series of thefts in her German middle school. Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
84 minutes. Rated G. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. In English.
One of the triumphs of Disney’s 1990s renaissance screens for free as part of March’s Family Day activities.
99 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Ilker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An idealistic young teacher is rattled after a series of thefts in her German middle school. Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
99 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Ilker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An idealistic young teacher is rattled after a series of thefts in her German middle school. Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
99 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Ilker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish, and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An idealistic young teacher is rattled after a series of thefts in her German middle school. Nominated for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mike Cheslik. In English.
Mike Cheslik’s inventive slapstick comedy—a cult sensation in the making—follows a drunk 19th-century applejack salesman as he battles wits with an army of beavers.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mike Cheslik. In English.
Mike Cheslik’s inventive slapstick comedy—a cult sensation in the making—follows a drunk 19th-century applejack salesman as he battles wits with an army of beavers.
237 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Taiwanese with English subtitles. DCP.
Edward Yang’s sprawling teen crime drama, one of the masterpieces of Taiwanese cinema, begins a partial retrospective of the director’s work. Named one of the 100 greatest films of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll and screening in a 4K restoration.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Mike Cheslik. In English.
Mike Cheslik’s inventive slapstick comedy—a cult sensation in the making—follows a drunk 19th-century applejack salesman as he battles wits with an army of beavers.
26 minutes (followed by panel discussion). Not Rated. Directed by David Washburn. In English.
Screening and panel discussion with special guests from Maine renown ceramics and craft community. Filmmaker in attendance. Sponsored by Reboot and The Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.
130 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. In Italian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) haunted by a lost love teams up with a squad of tomb raiders in Alice Rohrwacher’s (Happy as Lazzaro) lively and sumptuous consideration of the life beneath our feet.
130 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. In Italian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) haunted by a lost love teams up with a squad of tomb raiders in Alice Rohrwacher’s (Happy as Lazzaro) lively and sumptuous consideration of the life beneath our feet.
130 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. In Italian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) haunted by a lost love teams up with a squad of tomb raiders in Alice Rohrwacher’s (Happy as Lazzaro) lively and sumptuous consideration of the life beneath our feet.
125 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles. DCP.
Art versus commerce, friendship versus status, independence versus conformity—values clash and collide in Edward Yang’s study of an increasingly Westernized country heading into the twenty-first century without moral guideposts. Screening in a brand-new 4K restoration.
130 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. In Italian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) haunted by a lost love teams up with a squad of tomb raiders in Alice Rohrwacher’s (Happy as Lazzaro) lively and sumptuous consideration of the life beneath our feet.
130 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. In Italian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
An archaeologist (Josh O’Connor) haunted by a lost love teams up with a squad of tomb raiders in Alice Rohrwacher’s (Happy as Lazzaro) lively and sumptuous consideration of the life beneath our feet.
125 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In Russian and Italian with English subtitles. DCP.
Screening in a new 4K restoration, Tarkovsky’s late masterpiece follows a Russian intellectual in Italy as he becomes obsessed with his Italian translator and a nihilistic wanderer.
79 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Abel. In English.
This Boston Globe documentary investigates the massive development of Boston’s Seaport district as climate change threatens the city’s coastline with increasing frequency and severity.
71 minutes. Rated G. Directed by Bill Kroyer. In English.
The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus. Screens for free as part of April’s Family Day activities.
121 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Edward Yang’s penultimate film is an acerbic, sprawling tragicomedy, a poison love letter to Taipei as a rising cosmopolis of big money, big dreams, and big cons. Screening in a brand-new 4K restoration.
79 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Abel. In English.
This Boston Globe documentary investigates the massive development of Boston’s Seaport district as climate change threatens the city’s coastline with increasing frequency and severity.
125 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In Russian and Italian with English subtitles. DCP.
Screening in a new 4K restoration, Tarkovsky’s late masterpiece follows a Russian intellectual in Italy as he becomes obsessed with his Italian translator and a nihilistic wanderer.
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.
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