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Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum has grown up in the past decade to join other bigger-city museums around the country in promoting blockbuster art shows, from Impressionists to -- yes -- Egyptian tomb art. Its best exhibits have grown out of the work of European curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, who, with the help of now-former executive director John Buchanan, has managed to raid the artistic attics of Europe and Russia for a series of opulent shows.

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