BECAUSE summer JUST ISN’T LONG ENOUGH ESCAPE THE COLD TO A WARM TROPICAL DESTINATION WHERE IT IS SUMMER YEAR-ROUND. Contact our travel experts today: Direct Travel 15 Baxter Blvd Portland, ME 04101 207.874.7400 prompt 3 MimeGames 26 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine Experience Courtesy photo Art Bates College Museum of Art,Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.,Lewiston. Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era, through Mar. 23; Peter Turnley: Refu- gees,through March 23. 786-6158. Bowdoin College Mu- seum of Art, 245 Maine St.,Brunswick.A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection, through Jan. 6; In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides, through Jan.6; Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass, through Sept.29; Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies, through Feb. 10; Among Women: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, through Apr. 7. 725-3275. Center for Maine Con- temporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. CMCA Bien- nial 2018,through March 3,701-5005. Colby College Museum of Art,5600 Mayflower Hill Dr.,Waterville.Self and Society: The Norma Boom Marin Collection of Ger- man Expressionist Prints, through Jan.13; Currents 8: Carly Glovinski,through Feb.17; Darkness Visible: Goya Prints from the Lunder Collection,through Jan.20; Nancy Spero: Unbound,through Jan.20. 859-5600. Creative Portland,84 Free Street. Music events and a rotating gallery.370-4784. Elizabeth Moss Galleries, 251 U.S.Rt.1,Falmouth. Tessa O’Brien: Clear Blue Morning,through January 19.781-2620. Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Andrew Wyeth: Tem- peras and Studies from the Wyeth Collection, through Feb.3; The Screen Show,Feb.9-September 22; Andrew Wyeth in Rockland,through Feb.17; The Wyeths: Family and Friends,through Dec.30; Maine: The Farnsworth Collection,through Mar. 14,2021; 596-6457. Greenhut Galleries,146 Middle St.January Group Show,Jan.3-Feb.2; Mane- Made: A State of Nature, Feb.7-March 2; Maine,the Painted State,April 4-27. 772-2693. Maine Jewish Mu- seum,267 Congress St. Neil Beckerman: Mixed Media Art; Carol Sloane: Contemporary Scrolls; Russell Christian: Mixed Media Art,through Jan.25. 773-2339. Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island. Holiday Art Offerings, through Jan.27; Wildlife and Animal Theme Art - 2019 A Benefit Exhibit for MSSPA,Feb.1-27; 712- 1097. University of Maine Mu- seum of Art,40 Harlow St.,Bangor. Meghan Brady, Richard Keen, Zach Horn Jan.11-May 4.581-3300. Theater City Theater,205 Main St.,Biddeford. The Light in the Piazza,March.8-24. 282-0849. Good Theater,76 Con- gress St. An Act of God, Jan.16-Feb.10; Love Loss and What I Wore,Jan.19- Feb.9.835-0895. Harrasseeket Grange Hall,13 Elm St.,Freeport. City Spark’s Alice,An Origi- nal Musical,Jan.18-20, Jan.25-26. East Bayside’s Mayo Street Arts hosts Avner the Eccentric on February 23. You might recognize this vaudeville star as “The Jewel” in The Jewel of the Nile, the 1985 film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Avner Eisenberg, a resident of Peaks Island, will per- form his one-man comedy show Exceptions to Gravity. “Maine is one of the global centers of vaudeville and variety entertainment,” he says. “The audiences here are savvy and sharp, and they come to laugh.”