Robert Lehman News

The Lowe Art Museum unveils Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity, a compelling exhibition that seeks to distinguish the historical and contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular culture.

The USM Department of Theatre and School of Music will present their quadrennial opera, Otto Nicolai's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' on Friday, March 3, through Sunday, March 12 on the Main Stage at Russell Hall in Gorham.

BRIC is pleased to welcome acclaimed, Brooklyn-based singer/composer/multi-instrumentalistBecca Stevens to BRIC House on March 30. Always reaching, always expanding, Becca Stevens - whom The New York Times describes as a "best-kept secret" and "impressively absorbing" - reinvents herself once again with her latest album, Regina. In the years since the release of her critically acclaimed third album, Perfect Animal, Stevens has undertaken a journey that began with a study of Queen Elizabeth I as inspiration for a commission to write a concert of new music, which expanded into tributes to various queens from history, literature, folklore and her own imagination. The result is a collection of songs inspired by the regal and divine, and finally Regina as a voice, like a trusted friend or an alter ego.

BRIC is pleased to welcome Swedish psychedelic rock outfit Dungen to BRIC House on March 16 for two performances. At this show, they'll perform their dazzling original score to the 1926 film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Weaving music into the storytelling seamlessly, Dungen grabs at jazz, folk, and classical influences, taking you on journey through what is understood to be the oldest surviving animated film.

BRIC is pleased to present Surface Matters, an exhibition of work by artistsVeronique Gambier and Sarah E. Brook, in the Project Room of BRIC House. Curated by Brooklyn-based art collective 3walls, theshow highlights the deep investment both artists put in the materials used to create their work-art that expresses rich emotional content, visual interest and aesthetic beauty. Through the use of varying media and dimension, their quiet, powerful works suggest vastness as well as disappearance, solitude as well as strength. Both Gambier and Brook are on BRIC's Contemporary Artist Registry.BRIC House is located at 647 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, and Gallery and Project Room hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm, and Sunday 12-6pm. The exhibition is on view from February 1-26. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 from 7-9pm.

The Lowe Art Museum unveils Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity, a compelling exhibition that seeks to distinguish the historical and contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular culture.

In Its Award-Winning Arts Center in Downtown Brooklyn, BRIC Presents and Incubates Fresh Work by Artists and Media-Makers Reflecting NYC's Diversity.

From dawn over the mighty Volga river, to dawn over a simple frontier homestead in Appalachia, the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra fall concert has something for everyone! Conducted by USM professor Robert Lehmann, the orchestra will present their fall concert at Gorham Middle School and will feature the USM School of Music's new head of our vocal studies program, voice professor, Mariana Mihai-Zoeter.

The Lowe Art Museum unveils a collection of works by foremost Cuban female artists on November 3, 2016. Titled Unconscious Thoughts Animate the World: Selections from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, the exhibition comprises thirty works that span the last five decades of Cuban history and communicate the island-nation's cultural heritage, as well as notions of collective and individual identity. An Opening Reception will be held on November 3 from 7 to 9 pm, with talks by two of the artists from the exhibition, Sandra Ramos and Clara Morera. Tickets to the Opening ($12.50, free for Lowe members) can be purchased online at rsvp.lowemuseum.org.

The Lowe Art Museum continues its line-up of provocative exhibtions to showcase works by three acclaimed artists treating very distinct subjects using diverse media from varying perspectives.

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, on view from October 18, 2016, through March 15, 2017. Spanning the years 1953-1968, the exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the early career of Peter Voulkos, whose radical techniques and ideas opened up new possibilities for clay that are still being felt today.

The Lowe Art Museum continues its line-up of provocative exhibtions to showcase works by three acclaimed artists treating very distinct subjects using diverse media from varying perspectives.

This fall, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents MAD Transformations, a series of six exhibitions showcasing artists who have transformed and continue to reshape the public perception of traditional craft mediums. Building upon the exhibition Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, which celebrates the work of an artist known for drastically changing the way clay is categorized as an art material and discipline, the series considers fiber, clay, and jewelry and metals-disciplines that have composed the bedrock of MAD's founding mission and collection, and that continue to morph in the hands of contemporary artists today.

(New York, July 7, 2016)—Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology at The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been extended by three weeks through Labor Day, Monday, September 5. The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, opened to the public on May 5, and has drawn more than 350,000 visitors in its first nine weeks.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute spring 2016 exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology officially opened last week on the 5th of May. It explores how designers are reconciling the handmade with the machine-made in fashion, and among the machine-made creations are numerous pieces resulting from collaborations between Materialise (NASDAQ:MTLS) and Iris van Herpen with Julia Koerner and Daniel Widrig, as well as threeASFOUR with Bradley Rothenberg.

(New York, October 14, 2015)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition will be manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology, on view from May 5 through August 14, 2016(preceded on May 2 by The Costume Institute Benefit).  Presented in the Museum's Robert Lehman Wing and Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time, enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the court of Charles I in England.

(New York, October 14, 2015)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition will be manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology, on view from May 5 through August 14, 2016(preceded on May 2 by The Costume Institute Benefit).  Presented in the Museum's Robert Lehman Wing and Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.