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Museum management’s appeal delays union vote result
The vote was held this month, but the Portland Museum of Art has asked the National Labor Relations Board to review its decision allowing gallery ambassadors to decide whether to unionize.
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The ballots of a Dec. 22 unionization vote by Portland Museum of Art gallery ambassadors have been temporarily impounded until the National Labor Relations Board acts on management’s request for a review.
Brianna Soukup / Portland Press Herald
PORTLAND The result of a unionization vote this month by 23 Portland Museum of Art employees remains unknown pending a museum management appeal to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine announced Tuesday it will be temporarily closed until further notice to contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect its staff.
In photos: Lighting up the night
The winter solstice, the day with the fewest hours of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, takes place at 5:02 a.m. Dec. 21. The long nights of a pandemic have been made beautiful, though, with holiday lights throughout our cities and towns. Many people put their displays up earlier than usual this year as a way to bring joy and help dispel the gloom of a difficult year. Press Herald photographers recorded some of the colorful beauty.
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Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Katie Pinard, one of the owners of Elements in Biddeford, strings up lights on Dec. 2.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is the last stop of
Mythmakers’ national tour. The exhibition, organized by the Carter, the Denver Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, will be on view at the Fort Worth museum Dec. 22 – Feb. 28.
The exhibition features 70 works by two artists popular in their lifetimes, coupling their iconic works with underexplored aspects of their shared experience during this distinctive era of American history.
“We’re exploring the mythology that surrounds these two American artists,” Maggie Adler, Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Carter and co-curator of this exhibition said. “These are two American artists who were talked about the same way by critics as quintessentially American, as self-taught, as representative of their era in an idiosyncratic singular way.”