Andre Middleton, founder of the nonprofit Friends of Noise, offers a solution to the bored and cold young people of Portland: ...

After being forced to relocate their self-portraits for an end-of-semester critique, MFA student Anna Guyton raises questions ...

A mural in the federal courthouse in Portland. A large painting in the lobby of a federal office building in Bangor. Sculptures that welcome visitors at the border between Canada and Maine. They're ...

According to census data, fewer than 40 people live in the Washington town. Despite its size, it has the nation’s first WWI memorial, a distinguished art museum and an award-winning winery. The tiny ...

The University of Southern Maine Art Gallery is hosting their 2025 Juried Student Exhibition this March. This year, the theme is reverberations; these can include echoes or representations of ...

Darci Phenix released her second album, Wishbone, in 2021 through long-running New York-based indie label, Team Love Records.

The disorientation of assimilation was Lê’s subject, the complicated experience of giving up something you knew, something ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

A new TikTok trend called “airport theory” is apparently attempting to justify that last-minute travel. It involves people ...

A sailboat moves with almost no sound. No engine noise, no splashing wake—just the creak of rigging, the slap of water ...