Christina Baker Kline spent three years researching the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting, then wrote a story about her life.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Alan Root, scar-ridden filmmaker of wildlife, dies at 80
He spent nearly all his life in Kenya, where he and his first wife were considered two of Africa’s finest documentarians.
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‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ filmmaker Tobe Hooper, 74, dies
Reviewers criticized the movie, but it eventually won praise as one of the greatest horror films of all time
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Ed Skrein won’t play Asian character in next ‘Hellboy’
Critics say his casting was just the latest instance of an Asian or Asian-American role being handed to a white actor
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Play about Portland’s panhandling debate takes the stage
Snowlion Rep’s season features three plays set in Maine, including ‘Anything Helps God Bless’ and an adaptation of ‘The Cherry Orchard.’
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Maine artist makes what may be the world’s largest watercolor
Barbara Prey’s studies of her painting, which was commissioned by MASS MoCA, are on display in Port Clyde.
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Stone exhibition in Boothbay presents artists at work
A dozen carvers will make sculpture as part of a live exhibit about the history of stone and quarrying in Maine.
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Maine artists head to the Arctic in search of a new frontier
Alarmed by a changing climate and eager to tell stories, photographers, painters, songwriters and others go north.
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Painting stolen from Wiscasset studio returns mysteriously after 3 years
Mat O’Donnell’s triptych was stolen just before its first showing. Three years later, he found it on his studio’s doorstep.
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How a vineyard in rural Maine is booking big-name concerts
Savage Oakes Vineyard and Winery, a family-run business in Union, is evolving into an outdoor venue hosting such major acts as Graham Nash, Indigo Girls and Lyle Lovett, who will perform Aug. 13.