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PublishedJanuary 1, 2025
What’s in the cards for Maine? Tarot reading takes a look at year ahead
Will it be a snowy winter? Will Janet Mills run for Senate? We turned to the tarot card deck for insight into Maine's future.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
How Jeremy Frey changed the way the art world sees Wabanaki basketmaking
The Maine artist's solo show at the Portland Museum of Art – the first of its kind – represents a new perception of the art form.
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PublishedJune 20, 2024
Greater Portland Landmarks sues city to prevent demolition of Free Street building
The preservation nonprofit is seeking to overturn a City Council vote in May that allows the Portland Museum of Art to demolish the former Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2024
See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage
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.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2023
Portland Museum of Art offering free admission Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day
Numerous special events are planned at the museum.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2023
Portland Museum of Art seeks city approval to tear down former Children’s Museum
The PMA's chosen renovation design would require demolishing the building, which is considered a 'contributing structure' to a historic district.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2023
West Coast design firm chosen for Portland Museum of Art expansion
Lever Architecture, based in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, was chosen ahead of three other finalists to design a new building on the site of the former Children's Museum that will be integrated into the museum's existing campus overlooking Congress Square.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2022
Design teams unveil visions for Portland Museum of Art expansion
One of four finalists will be selected by the end of the year, but the $100 million project is not likely to be completed until 2026.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific
At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see 'obstreperous' Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.
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PublishedJune 1, 2022
Portland Museum of Art launches competition to select architect for expansion
The museum announced plans this year to build a 60,000-square-foot building on its downtown campus. The $85 million project is likely to be completed in 2026, but an architectural firm will be hired in December.
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