Edgar Allen Beem

Articles by Edgar Allen Beem

Travel → Providence, RI: Free Travel Planner →

Ubart at USM

Forty Years of Juris Ubans and Friends

Travel → New Hampshire: The Granite State →

Manchester, NH: Grand Re-Opening for Currier

Travel → Connecticut: The Nutmeg State →

Connecticut Art Museums

Top Five → Top Five Travel →

College Art Museums: Top 5 in New England

Pictures → Slideshows →

Craft Becomes Art

Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture

The DeCordova Gets Tired

Chakaia Booker's Rubber Art

Issues → November/December 2011 →

Wreathmaking Time in Washington County

'Our Victories Are Temporary, but Our Defeats Are Permanent'

Up Close: Plymouth Rock

Issues → September/October 2011 →

Up Close: The Rhode Island Red Chicken

Issues → May/June 2011 →

Fun Facts About the Maine Coon Cat

Issues → July/August 2010 →

College Art Museums: Top 5 in New England

Issues → January/February 2010 →

Craft Becomes Art

Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture

Craft Becomes Art

Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture

Issues → September/October 2009 →

Paintings, Photographs, and Projects Galore

2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial

Issues → July/August 2009 →

iImages and eMirrors

Techno Shows in Portsmouth and Portland

Photographing Maine's Blueberry Barrens

David Brooks Stess raked with the workers for 20 years

Issues → May/June 2009 →

Georgetown, ME: Reid State Park

Issues → July/August 2008 →

Jill Hoy, Painter, Stonington, Maine

Issues → May/June 2008 →

A Dozen Favorite Art Galleries in Maine

Connecticut Art Museums

Issues → January/February 2008 →

Ice Fishing: Moosehead Lake, Maine

Day with a Maine Guide

Ice Time

Issues → September/October 2007 →

Fun Facts About the Maine Coon Cat

Issues → July/August 2007 →

Let's Hear It for Local Yokels!

2010 New England Art Awards

Issues → March/April 2007 →

The Brown Sisters Come to Boston

Nicholas Nixon at the MFA

Issues → January/February 2007 →

In the Realm of Ideals

Mirare at Saint Anselm

Dogsledding in Maine: Call of the Wild

Dogsledding and winter camping

Issues → December 2006 →

New England Philanthropy: Gift Givers

Home & Garden → Garden →

Changing Poses: The Artist's Model

Life Studies at RISD

Food → Best Cook →

Apocalypse Maine

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2008 Biennial

Blogs → Just Looking: New England Art →

Provincetown Comes to Boston

Fine Arts Work Center founders at ACME Fine Art

The Ghost of Andrew Wyeth

America's Most Beloved Painter is Gone

Photo Salon for the Exchange of Ideas

Photography is hottest art medium today

DeCordova Museum's Presumed Innocence

Must-see photography on display until April 28

Artist John Bisbee and Bowdoin College Museum

A critic's eye on New England art

Best Art Blogs in New England

A critic's eye on New England art

'Wedded Bliss' in Salem, Massachusetts

The Farnsworth at 60

Rockland, Maine, museum has much more than Wyeth

The Art of Katahdin and Conservation

Thoreau's journeys and Katahdin Lake in photos, painting, drawings

Maverick Maine Painters on the Web

Carlo Pittore, Matt Donahue, Michael Waterman

Manchester, NH: Grand Re-Opening for Currier

Simple Beauty of Lois Dodd

Shows at Alexandre Gallery and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

Phillips Academy's Addison Gallery

Contemporary artists Carroll Dunham and Frank Gohlke

Vincent Hartgen's Maine Legacy

Establishing an art outpost in Orono

Georgia O'Keeffe in Portland

Her art and her image at Portland Museum of Art

California Comes to New Britain, Connecticut

A visit to the New Britain Museum of American Art

Prints and the Prince of Prints

Artist-printer collaborations at Portland Museum of Art

Folk Art of Maine and Massachusetts

Who are you calling a folk artist?

Susan Shatter's Watery World of Watercolor

A major artist in a minor medium

Black Womanhood at the Hood

Dartmouth exhibition looks at the African body

Sculpture as Poetry in the Maine Landscape

June LaCombe's one-woman sculpture campaign

Chuck and Nancy at Colby

Summer fun at Colby College Museum of Art

Elizabeth Peyton Returns to Connecticut

Aldrich Museum presents painter's photographs

Maine in the Abstract

Four painters internalize the Pine Tree State

Indian sculptor at Boston's ICA

Anish Kapoor turns art inside out

Apocalypse Maine

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2008 Biennial

That 70s Show

Lynda Benglis at RISD

Cassatt Kids and Kimble Cows in Vermont

Shelburne Museum has fun with fine and folk art

Tank Farm as Work of Art

Art All Around gives new meaning to "oil painting"

Like Breath on Glass

The Clark Art Institute goes soft

Photographs by the Book

"Andre Kertesz: On Reading" at Portland Museum of Art

Chihuly at RISD

Major glass show inaugurates RISD's new Chace Center

E. Ambrose Webster's Time in the Sun

Resurrecting a Provincetown pioneer

Art of Ancient Iraq

Assyrian Art and Empire at the MFA, Boston

The Free Spirit of Vermont

Art, Architecture, and Agriculture at the Fleming Museum

Drawn to Detail at the DeCordova

Pushing the envelope of what a drawing can be

The Intellectual Landscape

Tula Telfair at the Griswold Museum

Fantasy and Fetish on Campus

Amy Cutler and Lauren Fensterstock at Bowdoin

A Catholic View of Art

George Rouault at Boston College

The North Pole Comes to Salem

Peabody Essex goes "To The Ends of the Earth"

Forest Fires and First Traces in Maine

Dennis Pinette at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

Time Passes Photographically in Boston

Keeping Time & William Christenberry Photographs

Art Detectives in Hartford

"What Lies Beneath" at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Abandoned Buildings, Manicured Grounds

Vanden Brink's Ruin and Designing the Maine Landscape

"Out There" at Maine College of Art

Who ever heard of a juried faculty show?

Whose Drawings Are They Anyway?

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at MassMoCA

Deconstructing Architecture for Fun

Kirsten Reynolds at the Currier Museum

Painting Fabric Patterns in Portland

Alice Spencer's Fabricating Time

Art as Invention and Play

Randy Regier in ME, Cassie Jones in NYC

Abstraction Based on Observation

Jon Imber at Boston's Nielsen Gallery

Edward Steichen's Manual of Style

Fashion photos and more at Williams

Collecting Rock Stars

Backstage Pass at Portland Museum of Art

Craft Becomes Art

Contemporary Maine Wood Sculpture

From Cape Cod to Colby

Bevin Engman's New Landscapes

As Others See Us

The Many Faces of Brattleboro

Dorothy Eisner on Cranberry and in Boston

Painting her way through the 20th century

Ubart at USM

Forty Years of Juris Ubans and Friends

Boston Art Awards and Beyond

Embracing New England Yokelism

Sacred and Profane Portsmouth

Who knew there was a Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art?

Artist As Activist and Agitator

Shepard Fairey at the Boston ICA

Nicole Duennebier is NEW/NOW

Amalgamates at New Britain Museum of American Art

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Links

Maine Photographers at Elizabeth Moss

Combat Paper in Burlington

Art as an attempt to get beyond war

Art "Associated" With Maine

A Most Peculiar Portland Museum of Art Biennial

HOME at Westport Arts Center

Painter Eric Aho creates a homecoming

Everything Old Is New Again

Photocopies @ Dartmouth, Antiqued Photos @ UNE

Portraits in Conflict and Reconciliation

Felix de la Concha in the Hood

The Art of Appropriation

Inappropriate Covers at Brown's Bell Gallery

The Strange Beauty of Linden Frederick's Maine

You Are Here at Center for Maine Contemporary Art

An Elegant Ensemble of Encaustic

New England Wax Artists at the Saco Museum

The Shelburne Pops a Wheelie

Motorcycles and more in Vermont's Champlain Valley

The Afterlife of Art

A Carlo Pittore Auction in Portland

Joe Nicoletti Has the Blues

Maine's Italian Master in Bates Retrospective

The Gary & Gerry Show

New England Formalism at the Currier

Call of the Coast

Coastal art colonies of New England

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

Androgyny and Ambiguity at the Boston ICA

Indiana Is an Island

Robert Indiana On and Off Vinalhaven

The Business of Art

A Portland Gallery Potpourri

Artist in Residences

The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes

Folk Art Is Fine Art

Old, Weird America at the DeCordova

Real Art Ways Keeps Hartford Hopping

Public art for Parkville & Frog Hollow

Irish Travellers in Brattleboro

Alen MacWeeney at Vermont Center for Photography

Nature and Culture Collide

Nature/Artifice at RISD

A Summer Flower Show

Flower Power at Clark Gallery

Dutch Invade Salem

The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes

Joel Babb's Real World

Boston & Maine in High Fidelity

Artist as Environmental Activist

Alan Gussow: A Painter's Nature

Art Flows in Cultural Pittsfield

The Creative Economy in the Berkshires

Drawing in the Sands of Time

Jim Denevan's Temporary Art

Art Without Borders

Two Maine-New Brunswick Collaborations

Dahlov Where the Wild Things Are

The Art of Dahlov Ipcar

Black on White, Ink on Paper

The Stahl Collection at the Currier Museum

Pretty Tough Women at the Aldrich

Contemporary Storytelling in Connecticut

Eye Spy in Salem

Art and Illusion at PEM

Solotaire Playing in Portland

Robert Solotaire was a Downtown Guy

Out of This World

The 2010 DeCordova Biennial

Williams Museum Goes Over Niagara Falls

William Morris Hunt and Alec Soth on Honeymoon

Art at Colby

50 Years on the Walls and on the Page

25 Cent Children's Classics

Little Golden Books at the Carle Museum

Rockstone and Bootheel @ Real Art Ways

Celebrating West Indian Art in Hartford

Drawing Itself in Brattleboro

Plus Aho, Hermansader, Long & Fichter

My Christmas Wish List

Above and Below @ Greenhut

Painterly Sleight of Hand in New Britain

John Haberle: American Master of Illusion

Welcome to the New Mill-ennial

Saco Museum Inaugurates a Biennial

Art as Installation and Performance

Rachel Berwick & Aaron T. Stephan

African-American Art in Maine

Romare Bearden & David Driskell

Divide and Conquer

Frederick Lynch in Connecticut & Maine

Yokelism & the Dangers of Provincialism

The Greg Cook-Sebastian Smee Dialogue

Practicing What They Preach

Art Teacher Art at the Saco Museum

Two of Maine's Most Popular Painters

Jill Hoy and Eric Hopkins at Thos. Moser

An Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Holy Cross

Buddhism, Christianity & Islam at the Cantor Art Gallery

From Homer to Hopper

Watercolors at the Currier

Drawing Out of Line

Pat Steir at RISD

This Is Still Life

Objects of Wonder from Florida to Maine

In the Realm of Ideals

Mirare at Saint Anselm

Art As Experience

Garry Mitchell at Colby

The Interstate-95 Triennial

University of Maine Museum of Art's Road Show

Oblique & Acute Angles of Vision

Five New Shows in Brattleboro

Maine Masterpieces at $20 Each

The Union of Maine Visual Artists' Video Series

Surf's Up in Newport

Jason Evans's Surf Island

Bits of Sea in Concord

John Bonner Paints the North Shore

Art At The Edge

Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art Does It Again

Setting Sail on a Sea of Oil

Kathy Bradford's Ocean Liner Show

The DeCordova Gets Tired

Chakaia Booker's Rubber Art

Raw and Cooked Landscapes

Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky at the Shelburne

Modernism from Hartford to Portland

Wadsworth Atheneum Collection Comes to Maine

The Return of Rackstraw Downes

Industrial Landscapes at the Aldrich

Bright , Shiny and Kinetic

George Sherwood Sculpture at the Currier

The Brown Sisters Come to Boston

Nicholas Nixon at the MFA

Blowing Up Maine

Alex Katz at the Farnsworth

Three Visions in Rockport

Jacquette, Bell & Barnet at CMCA

Maine Modern

50 Years of Modern Architecture

The Addison Gets a Makeover

Gallery Re-Opens at 80

Thermoplastic Downeast

Richard Van Buren at Tides Institute

Chromatic Cosmology in Connecticut

Meg Brown Payson at Eo Art Lab

It's TIME for Amy Stacey Curtis

Maine's Mathematical Installation Artist

Expressionist Island

Henry Finkelstein on Cranberry

Minimal New Hampshire

Frank Stella Returns to Dartmouth

Portsmouth Museum Goes SugiPOP!

Japanese Anime, Manga, Snowboards & More

Boston's Best

The ICA's Foster Prize

Art at Play in Brattleboro

Five New Fun Shows at BMAC

Changing Poses: The Artist's Model

Life Studies at RISD

Realism After Abstraction

Contemporary Art from the Farnsworth

The Liberation of Color

Carol Aronson-Shore at UNH

Boston Star Rising

Kristin Baker at the MFA

Art City By The Sea

Greenhut's Portland Show

Maine Art New

Report on a Work in Progress

Women of Pop Art

Seductive Subversion at Tufts

The Feathered Hand

Alison Hildreth at UNE Art Gallery

Let's Hear It for Local Yokels!

2010 New England Art Awards

iImages and eMirrors

Techno Shows in Portsmouth and Portland

Give 'Em the Old Razzle Dazzle

Dale Chihuly 'Em

Governor Orders Maine Labor Mural Removed

Artists and Labor Unions Protest

Paintings, Photographs, and Projects Galore

2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial

Critters Overrun UNE Gallery

Nancy Davidson's Eighth Animal Art Show

Graffiti, Street Art or Vandalism?

A Tale of Two Cities, Portland and Portsmouth

Glorious Tim Clorius

Conversation Pieces at Aucocisco