AUGUSTA (AP).- A federal lawsuit was filed Friday over Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to remove a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history from the Labor Department. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks to confirm the mural’s curr…
Maine Governor Paul LePage Taken to Task after Labor-Themed Mural Removed
PORTLAND, ME (AP).- The president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts sent a scathing letter Tuesday to Maine Gov. Paul LePage for removing a labor-themed mural from the Department of Labor headquarters as the status of the disputed artwork remai…
Norman Rockwell Photo Mural "Maple Sugaring in Vermont" Back Where it Belongs
MONTPELIER, VT. (AP).- A photographic mural by artist Norman Rockwell has been returned to its former home in Vermont’s capital, drawing a close to a yearlong dispute between state officials and a museum where it hung for 23 years. The black-and-white …
Butler Art Museum Rescues Pierre Soulages Masterpiece
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Pierre Soulages (born 1919), an internationally renowned artist of French origin, has a worldwide following. Recently, the Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted a retrospective of work by Frances famed “painter of black,” drawing f…