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Art News:
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August 6 - August 12
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Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin
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"'Your old guide is paddling his canoe in the shadow, but he knows that the glories of the heavens and the earth are seen more appreciatively when the observer rests in the shade.' In such final paintings from Maine, the realm of the Sublime had retreated, to be replaced by pastoral visions of an aged artist at one with his peaceful environs and era."
--The Wall Street Journal
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Museum Blog
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In this week's Museum Blog, Margaret Burgess, Associate Curator of European Art, writes about the quartet of Monet's works inspired by his time in Étretat, a small village along the French coast, and now on view in the current exhibition, The Draw of the Normandy Coast. Read more... |
PMA Picks
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 PMA Picks
This summer PMA staff will host short talks about their favorite artworks in the Museum. Stop by to hear fun stories and inside information about the works in the galleries! Free with Museum admission. Learn more...
August 7, 11 a.m., Vanessa Ricks, Visitor Experience Associate
August 7, 1 p.m., Annelise Conway, Director of Leadership Gifts & Planned Giving
August 8, 11 a.m., Caitlin Brooke, Public Relations Assistant
August 9, 11 a.m., Jessica May, Curator of Contemporary & Modern Art
August 10, 11 a.m., Sally Struever, Museum Store Manager
August 10, 3 p.m., Joanna Hoyt, Visitor Experience Supervisor
August 10, 4 p.m., Caitlin Sackville, Visitor Experience Associate |
Save the Date
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 Parlor Talk: Lost Trails
Friday, August 17
6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Free admission.
Author Lynne Plourde and illustrator Ben Bishop teamed up with Donn Fendler to tell his amazing story, enjoyed by generations of Mainers, in a new format as a graphic novel. Learn more...
 Artist Interventions
Visit the galleries to participate in "happenings" planned by PMA's new team of Maine artists. Come find out what happens when an artist intervenes in your gallery experience! Free with Museum admission. Learn more...
Shoshannah White: Portraits Re-collected
Tuesday, August 14
3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Clint Fulkerson: Live Views
Wednesday, August 15
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday, August 16
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Movies at the Museum
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Additional screenings have been added for the month of August!
Dinner and a Movie! Enjoy a light dinner before a movie! Visit the Museum Café by Aurora Provisions for seasonally inspired soups and salads, gourmet sandwiches, and creative entrées. Beer and wine served. No admission required to dine. Free Wi-Fi. Menu changes daily.
A Cat in Paris
Monday, August 6, 2 p.m. Tuesday, August 7, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, August 8, 2 p.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2 p.m.
Friday, August 10, 2 p.m.
PG
Special children's ticket: $3
Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force, but at night Dino sneaks out the window to work with Nico. Nico is a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline.
 Friday, August 10, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, August 12, 2 p.m. NR
Special ticket price for Maine Island residents and Casco Bay Lines season passholders: $3. Q & A with producer Mike Kaplan will follow the Friday, August 10 screening.
The Whales of August tells the story of two elderly widowed sisters (Bette Davis and Lillian Gish) spending a summer at a seaside house in Maine. The film is based on the play by David Berry whose family cottage was on on Peaks Island where, in fact, the characters and story were drawn from. The film was shot on Cliff Island in Casco Bay. 
Saturday, August 11, 2 p.m. NR All About Eve is an elegantly catty backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Taking pity on the girl, Margo takes Eve as her personal assistant. Before long, it becomes apparent that naïve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Bill Sampson (Gary Merill), playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap.
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