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Colby College’s Museum of Art reopening to public next month
The reopening coincides with final weekend of the ‘Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960’ exhibition.
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Barbara Zdravesky of Providence, Rhode Island, looks at pieces of art in August 2017 at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville. Colby plans to reopen the museum’s galleries to the public next month after a nearly 15-month closure because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel file
WATERVILLE The Colby College Museum of Art will soon reopen its galleries to the public after being closed more than a year during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Early Roy Lichtenstein: A fount of insight on postwar America
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:43 a.m.
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Roy Lichtenstein s Washington Crossing the Delaware II, from about 1951.Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Courtesy of Gabriel Miller
WATERVILLE, Maine â In 1940, an Ohio State undergraduate named Roy Lichtenstein â yes, that Roy Lichtenstein â made a loose and gestural ink sketch of Paul Bunyan felling a tree with a mighty swing. He passed it off to his roommate with a wink. Keep it, he said. Iâm going to be famous someday.
Someday came, and famous he was, though not for works like that. In 1961, Lichtenstein made âLook Mickey,â his first-ever appropriation of a four-color pulp illustration. (He lifted it from the 1960 kidsâ book âDonald Duck: Lost and Found.â) That anchored him as one of the pillars of the thoroughly American Pop Art movement.
HomeFront: All hail Dionne Warwick, Shakespeare on the Common returns, dysfunctional TV families
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
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Dionne Warwick is planning two Mother s Day concerts online.
Welcome back to HomeFront, where weâre slowly shaking off a year-plus of âGroundhog Dayâ-style sameness and reacquainting ourselves with the concept that big news can be good. Vaccination numbers climbing, Free Shakespeare on the Common back on the calendar, and especially the return of Broadway â all big, all good! For the scoop on all kinds of diversions, keep reading.
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Dionne Warwick has embraced livestreaming â sheâs performing two Motherâs Day concerts. She wanders memory lane in an entertaining Q&A with the Globeâs Christopher Muther, touching on her back catalog as well as Twitter fame (âI say things that give food for thoughtâ). Of Ego Nwodimâs uncanny take on
New Waterville art center on track to open with board approval, demolition underway
The Paul J. Schupf Art Center is set to open in December 2022, with plans also calling for improved access to the Waterville Opera House through a new skywalk.
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Crooker Construction begins demolition of The Center in downtown Waterville on Tuesday, making way for the new Paul J. Schupf Art Center. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE The Paul J. Schupf Art Center at 93 Main St. downtown is on track to open now that the Planning Board has given its final approval and demolition work has started on the existing building there.