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1 week ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
Surrealist painting is fairly rare in Maine. Yet ever since its emergence in France in the 1910s, elements of it have crept into artists’ sensibilities, especially those working during turbulent times that feel overwhelmingly incomprehensible.
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2 weeks ago | 
1stdibs.com | Jorge Arango
Apartments, like children, grow up. This is arguably one of the greatest joys of the empty nester. With their offspring beginning to establish families of their own, parents can reclaim spaces and redesign their residence to more fully embody their new stage of life.
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2 weeks ago | 
1stdibs.com | Jorge Arango
“We tend to go further than we should and then reel it back,” says 1stDibs 50 designer Noz Nozawa, referring to her San Francisco firm’s signature bold use of color and pattern. “This house, though, isn’t far from where we began. Nothing in our portfolio looks quite like it.”The home in question is an elegant 6,000-square foot, five-bedroom Edwardian, built in 1907, whose husband-and-wife owners asked Nozawa to design the piano nobile.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
It’s that time again, when the art world begins waking from its winter slumber. A number of galleries and museums are opening after being shuttered for winter. There is also at least one gallery, Fort Hall in Brunswick, that does the opposite (located in painter Katherine Bradford’s summer studio, the artist lends it for exhibitions from fall through spring). Collapsing Time and SpaceFort Hall’s last show of the season is “Maggie Stark/Shadow Light” (through May 17).
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1 month ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
The current exhibition at Space, “Envision Resilience: Shifting Tides and Evolving Landscapes” (through April 26) mixes provocation and beauty. Featuring works by seven Maine-based artists that are unabashedly beautiful, it asks us to contemplate the inevitable — rising sea levels due to global warming — though, to its credit, it does not knock us over the head with polemic. This is not a show for climate change deniers.
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1 month ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
“Lorica: Masks of Eternity,” Craig Becker’s photography exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum (through May 2) takes its name from a piece of Roman armor — a back and breast plate connected at the sides, most often with leather, that protected the torso from physical blows and shooting arrows. The idea for it arose, Becker’s statement says, in 2020 when “events rattled our country,” by which he means the COVID epidemic and the first Trump administration.
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2 months ago | 
centralmaine.com | Jorge Arango
I’m not sure about you, but most everyone I know, no matter what side of the political aisle they align with, is feeling fairly overwhelmed these days. Who isn’t anxious about which social safety net programs will be diminished or completely dismantled? Will I lose my Social Security? Will our beloved nanny be deported? Will there be any money left for the arts, farmers or education after DOGE completes is slash-and-burn operation?
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2 months ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
I’m not sure about you, but most everyone I know, no matter what side of the political aisle they align with, is feeling fairly overwhelmed these days. Who isn’t anxious about which social safety net programs will be diminished or completely dismantled? Will I lose my Social Security? Will our beloved nanny be deported? Will there be any money left for the arts, farmers or education after DOGE completes is slash-and-burn operation?
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2 months ago | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
In 1989, the Michigan-born painter Jonathan Eiten journeyed to The Netherlands on a study abroad program, where he became enamored of 17th-century Dutch still life painting. The debt he owes to the artists he discovered there — masters such as Pieter Claesz, Willem Claeszoon Heda and Willem Kalf — is apparent in “Jonathan Eiten” (through March 30) at Bridgton’s Aperto Fine Art.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
pressherald.com | Jorge Arango
Some years ago, at a diversity and inclusivity meeting I was attending, an Asian American woman confessed that as far back as she could remember, her fellow Asian American family and friends strived to appear as “anything but Asian.” Their identity rested largely on assimilating American mores, behaviors and speech while denying their natural-born heritage.
