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Portland Museum Of Art News - August 4, 2023

Arts and Entertainment

August 7, 2023

From: Portland Museum of Art

The Color of Light
6-7 p.m. Friday, August 11

In this free program, photographers and educators discuss the resistance to and eventual acceptance of color photography in the fine arts in connection to exhibition Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College.

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Third Thursday
5-8 p.m. Thursday, August 17

Third Thursday is coming at you with a night filled with activities inside and outside of the museum. We'll have Maine Marimba Ensemble filling the Shaw and Family Sculpture Park with the sweet sweet sounds of summer, the Black Tie café serving up drinks and snacks, and Ferdinand Jewelry with all of your accessory-needs in their pop-up shop at the PMA Store. Don't miss out on this ever-changing monthly party!

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Joyce Tenneson
6-7 p.m. Thursday, August 24

Explore never-before-seen photographs from Joyce Tenneson’s 50-year career as she delves into her archive and shares behind-the-scenes stories at another unforgettable Judy Glickman Lauder lecture.

$15 for general public; $10 for members;
$5 for students

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PMA Films:
CatVideoFest
August 4-6

CatVideoFest is back and it's screening this weekend! A purrrfect idea for cooling off at the PMA if we do say so ourselves.

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On View:
Alex Katz, Wedding Dress
Through June 2, 2024

An iconic garment on a massive scale.

A series of large-scale paintings highlighting Katz's interest in the intersection of art and fashion, the texture of the painted surface, and the flatness of pictorial space. In his art autobiography Invented Symbols, Katz wrote, “Fashion is of the moment, and art is supposed to be forever.”  

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