The Portland Museum of Art shows an exhibit of Shaker crafting skill

Museum And Gallery

Photos: ''Gather Up the Pieces: The Andrews Shaker Collection'' at the Portland Museum of Art

Through February 5, 2012

By PHOENIX STAFF | November 2, 2011

“Gather Up the Pieces: The Andrews Shaker Collection’’ at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland | through February 5, 2012 | 207.775.6148 | portlandmuseum.org

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Out of this world
"The Great Haul" plunges from the 22-foot-high clerestory of the Portland Museum of Art's entryway, a tear-dropped fishnet that resolves just before it touches the ground.
Homer's home
A hundred years after his death, Winslow Homer is still making waves.
Fall Art Preview: Rising to the challenge
Last weekend’s Block Party was a charming and invigorating celebration of Portland’s art community. The interactive evening, spearheaded by SPACE Gallery, set an ambitious standard for what’s to come on the art front rounding out this year.
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Out of this world
"The Great Haul" plunges from the 22-foot-high clerestory of the Portland Museum of Art's entryway, a tear-dropped fishnet that resolves just before it touches the ground.
Homer's home
A hundred years after his death, Winslow Homer is still making waves.
Fall Art Preview: Rising to the challenge
Last weekend’s Block Party was a charming and invigorating celebration of Portland’s art community. The interactive evening, spearheaded by SPACE Gallery, set an ambitious standard for what’s to come on the art front rounding out this year.
Art review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions'
In the art of deception lies the potential to destabilize perceptions of reality, if only momentarily.
Jenny Holzer's projections remake buildings
Jenny Holzer is not an architect, but in 2004, when she projected those words onto the stone facade of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan's Times Square, the historic building acquired a character it had never before seen.
The year in Portland's art scene
For lovers of spectacle, 2010 offered a lot of feasts. A fine collection of installations and site-specific works graced the greater city in 2010, challenging our perceptions and changing our surroundings.
Odd year ahead for museums and galleries
Remember, for every droopy tarp stalactite that makes it into a museum lobby installation, there are dozens of similar (and similarly impressive) creatures that never leave a studio wall.
A Rackstraw Downes retrospective at the PMA
The first thing you notice about the Rackstraw Downes exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art is how abstract these paintings are.
Review: 'European Drawings' at the Portland Museum of Art
"European Drawings" is the Portland Museum of Art's contribution to "Where to Draw the Line: the Maine Drawing Project," a year-long series of historical and contemporary drawing exhibitions at 16 Maine galleries and art institutions.
Touring the PMA's Biennial
The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
Review: PMA show highlights Marin's modernist excellence
For the first half of the 20th century John Marin (1870-1953) was considered one of the foremost American modernist painters, and this fine show of some 50 of his later works at the Portland Museum of Art gives us a good idea why.
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