Rufus Foshee
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Art in Maine today
By Rufus Foshee - Jul 28The last public forum concerned with art in Maine took place nearly a decade ago. It was not able to answer its own question: What is Maine art? ...
Kingdom of sculpture in Warren woods
By Rufus Foshee - Mar 04It was at the Farnsworth Art Museum during the glass show some time ago that Jay Sawyer and I first struck up a conversation. I have wanted to see ...
The Farnsworth: Nevelson still coming up short
By Rufus Foshee - Jan 16Being in Louise Nevelson's American hometown, it is understandable that the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland wants to spread its wings and toot ...
Painting without brushes
By Rufus Foshee - Dec 19Since by many steps, American quilts, especially the appliqued ones and the later crazy quilt ones, constitute the largest contribution to the ...
Charles DuBack: by color alone
By Rufus Foshee - Nov 08- Though Charles DuBack, who has spent a lot of his life on the river in St. George, has had several small shows in Midcoast Maine recently, his ...
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The future of the Farnswyeth
By Rufus Foshee - Oct 09- Phyllis Mills Wyeth, married to Jamie Wyeth and one of the DuPont clan, has stepped forward as spokeswoman for the Wyeth clan, offering social and ...
'Just Look at Yourself'
By Rufus Foshee - Sep 06- Just as with a work of art, on the rare occasions that happens, what goes into the making of any exhibition is a mystery. One difference is ...
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Hillary is back
By Rufus Foshee - Aug 01- While it is true that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does fly a very big jet, once it let down in New Delhi on July 17, it was her third day ...
Indiana in Maine, part two
By Rufus Foshee - Jul 12- Pop art as it came to be known in the 1960s was not delivered down the mountain like the Ten Commandments. It was hard earned despite the aesthetic...
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The rise of the others
By Rufus Foshee - Jun 26- Early in Fareed Zakaria's "The Post American World," he writes, "... The Security Council exemplifies the antique structure of global governance ...
That road, that road ...
By Rufus Foshee - Mar 17When Lora Urbanelli was executive director at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, I went to see her in her office. We met in the lobby and she ...
Just one more box
By Rufus Foshee - Feb 11I met Louise Nevelson on Dec. 19, 1959, when "Dawn's Wedding Feast" was first shown to the art public at New York's Museum of Modern Art. She ...
Indiana on 'Today'
By Rufus Foshee - Dec 31Tune in to the "Today Show" on New Year's Day, fill up your cup, your mug or your glass, whatever you prefer, and watch the Indiana Show. We ...
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Center for Maine Contemporary Art: the house has crashed
By Rufus Foshee - Dec 03Just a few weeks after the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport hired a new executive director, Mary Ann Schierholt, and added promising ...
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What happened to American exceptionalism?
By Rufus Foshee - Oct 23- It has become revelatory to me that I have found a book by a retired colonel that I am willing to believe in. But “The Limits of Power: The End of ...
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Not Russia this time, but China
By Rufus Foshee - Sep 12- As one ages, one may find some side effects that may be beneficial as to how one looks at the world in which we live. A little age is needed to ...
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Goodbye Blackberry
By Rufus Foshee - Aug 22- It seems unlikely that President Obama had the telephone number of an unknown police sergeant in Boston programmed into his Blackberry. This means ...
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Divine right of kings
By Rufus Foshee - Jul 18- During his student days, in 1983, President Obama wrote "Breaking the War Mentality.” He denounced "... the twisted logic of which we are a part ...
Indiana in Maine, part one
By Rufus Foshee - Jul 04- A lifetime of aesthetic accomplishment has been moved into the Farnsworth Art Museum. These works of Robert Indiana opened for the public on June ...
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Foreign policy by crisis
By Rufus Foshee - Jun 13- What the United States has long called foreign policy is formulating solutions crisis by crisis. Much foreign policy has been unilateral. The ...
