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207: This Maine museum owns thousands of works of art—and only a fraction of them are on display — Portland Museum of Art
The exhibit is comprised of works the museum acquired in the past decade as it made a concerted effort to expand the stories it could tell through art. March 6, 2024 Rob Caldwell This article appears in News Center Maine .
'Art in Bloom' exhibit at Portland Museum of Art — Portland Museum of Art
WGME Staff March 19, 2024 This story appeared on WGME-13. It's no secret that spring starts on Tuesday. One place where you can celebrate in a big way is the Portland Museum of Art. Starting on Wednesday and going all the way through Sunday, you can check out one of the biggest and must-see eve
Portland Press Herald: See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage — Portland Museum of Art
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.
This Month At Your Museum: March 2024 — Portland Museum of Art
Each year, thousands of people come to the museum to experience breathtaking floral designs—all inspired by artworks in the PMA collection, btw—and take part in a wide array of special, springtime programming. Be sure to visit Wednesday, March 20 through Sunday, March 24, and don’t miss some of thes
To Our Community — Portland Museum of Art
Like many museums, municipal, and cultural organizations, we continue to be adversely impacted by the instability of the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum is therefore reducing its staff size by thirteen positions. These positions include salaried managers and employees, as well as hourly employees. Fro
Portland Press Herald: Our View: Portland Museum of Art plan deserves to proceed — Portland Museum of Art
The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine
From the PMA Magazine: Fragments of Epic Memory — Portland Museum of Art
Fragments blends historical and contemporary narratives through more than 100 photographs from the AGO’s Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings and video works by modern and contemporary artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Boston Globe: The fine art of remaking a collection — Portland Museum of Art
“This is a big shift,” said Shalini Le Gall, the museum’s chief curator. “I’m an art historian, but art history is not the only way to access art in a museum. We want to show people that art by its nature is not stable, and the scope of interpretation will always be changing.”
News Center Maine: A Trip to Winslow Homer's home is a treat – even if he didn't like visitors — Portland Museum of Art
Tours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.
New to the Collection: Margaret F. Foley's Graziella—A Capri Girl, 1868 — Portland Museum of Art
This exciting new addition to the collection by Margaret F. Foley will enable the PMA to tell a richer, more dynamic story of women’s contributions to neoclassical sculpture, transatlantic art movements, and American art more broadly.