Just Looking
A Critic’s Eye on New England Art
Take a look at art in New England with Edgar Allen Beem. Read his recent interview on contemporary art in New England with the Abbeville Manual
of Style.
He's been art critic for the Portland Independent, art critic and feature writer for Maine Times, and now is a freelance writer for Yankee, Down East, Boston Globe Magazine, The Forecaster, and Photo District News.
He's the author of Maine Art Now (1990) and Maine: The Spirit of America (2000). In 1988, he won the Manufacturers Hanover Art/World Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism for his coverage of the 1987 auction sale of Vincent Van Gogh's Irises.
Ed says, "My credo as an arts writer has long been: 'The work of art is the search for meaning.' I believe art is not only a form of personal expression but also a form of inquiry, every bit as much a quest for truth as scientific research."
August 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM
The Clark Art Institute goes soft
August 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Art All Around gives new meaning to "oil painting"
August 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Shelburne Museum has fun with fine and folk art
August 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2008 Biennial
August 3, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Anish Kapoor turns art inside out
July 23, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Four painters internalize the Pine Tree State
July 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Aldrich Museum presents painter's photographs
July 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM
Summer fun at Colby College Museum of Art
July 1, 2008 at 4:07 PM
June LaCombe's one-woman sculpture campaign
June 25, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Dartmouth exhibition looks at the African body
June 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM
A major artist in a minor medium
June 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Who are you calling a folk artist?
June 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Artist-printer collaborations at Portland Museum of Art
May 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM
A visit to the New Britain Museum of American Art
May 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM
Her art and her image at Portland Museum of Art
May 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Establishing an art outpost in Orono
May 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Peabody Essex Museum gets married
April 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Contemporary artists Carroll Dunham and Frank Gohlke
April 23, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Shows at Alexandre Gallery and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art
April 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Manchester's museum of American and European art
April 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Carlo Pittore, Matt Donahue, Michael Waterman
April 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Must-see photography on display until April 28
March 19, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Thoreau's journeys and Katahdin Lake in photos, painting, drawings
March 19, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Rockland, Maine, museum has much more than Wyeth
March 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Photography is hottest art medium today
March 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM
A critic's eye on New England art
March 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM
A critic's eye on New England art
