Art and Culture

A look at how people hit the beach in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Painter Colin Page captures light and life in color-filled canvases.

A remarkable exhibition of lithographic landscapes of the Pine Tree State at Bowdoin College provides a panoramic record of Maine’s towns and cities.

David Graeme Baker’s art explores the angst of youth.

Painter Sarah Faragher relies on intuition—and the Maine landscape—in creating her canvases.

A new selection of books we recommend.

Scenes from the 2019 Maine Boat & Home Show.

The Tides Institute & Museum of Art has helped spark a creative revival in the downeast city of Eastport.

Corinne McIntyre and fellow plein air artists find inspiration painting in company.

Multi-talented Jonathan Fisher was a furniture maker as well as Blue Hill’s first settled minister.

Jerome Morris brings knowledge from a lifetime on the water into his model-making.

Tradition and Christmas balls on Matinicus Island.

Christmas 1960, tough times tempered by a visit from a brilliant bird.

Writer Todd Nelson says all his neighbors have seen the bears; why hasn’t he?

Two centuries after his birth, Herman Melville’s writing about the ocean still resonates.

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