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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Art review: See the effect of Judy Glickman Lauder’s influences in concurrent photo shows
While the Portland Museum of Art displays works from her collection, the Maine Jewish Museum is showing her own photographs.
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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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Portland Museum of Art narrows search for expansion architect to 4 international finalists
The museum has raised $30 million so far toward a $100 million campaign that would include construction of a new six- or seven-story building on its downtown campus, more than doubling its current space.
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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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Portland Museum of Art announces winners of 1st sustainability art prize
Six young artists from across New England win the first Tidal Shift Awards given by the museum in partnership with The Climate Initiative.
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Congress Square’s $7.2 million makeover has begun. Expect disruptions.
One day it will have wider sidewalks, lusher landscaping, new art. But it’s going to be messy for a time before it’s done.
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Portland Museum of Art settles with laid-off employees
The 14 former gallery ambassadors had filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board and most will receive a one-time payment of $2,000.
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Society Notebook: Art lovers mingle with art makers at Portland museum’s Winter Bash
The Portland Museum of Art held the event for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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A brief history of the Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art was founded in 1882 as the Portland Society of Art by a group of local artists. At 140 years old, it’s one of the country’s oldest art museums. In 1908, author and philanthropist Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat died and bequeathed her mansion, the McLellan House, at the corner of High […]