The list of openings for museum directors in Maine keeps getting longer.
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art announced on Monday that executive director and curator Michael Culver is leaving the museum.
The Portland Museum of Art will receive a gift of 50 works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Michael K. Komanecky, chief curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum, will serve as interim director beginning Dec. 1, as the museum's board begins a search for a replacement for Lora Urbanelli.
File this one under the category of surprise: Lora Urbanelli is leaving her position as executive director at the Farsnworth Art Museum and taking over as director of the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, N.J., starting in January.
Portland's largest art auction begins at 6 p.m. Friday at Holiday Inn by the Bay, with a watercolor of a hunting scene by British artist Sir Alfred Munnings estimated to sell for between $400,000 and $600,000.
The University of Maine Museum of Art has hired George Kinghorn as its new director.
Kinghorn, who most recently served as deputy director and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida, begins his new post June 9.
At Round Top Farm in Damariscotta on Saturday, friends celebrated the life and all-around good spirit of longtime arts supporter Jody McCorkle of Brunswick.
The toll of our bad economy is beginning to show up in tangible ways. Suzanne Gagnon, who operates the Cooper Jackson Gallery at 70 India St., Portland, plans to close her gallery.
