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Raise a stein and toast the Stein
BY ALEX IRVINE
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Last Wednesday, the Stein Gallery, which has turned heads on Middle Street for the last 10 years or so and on Market Street before that, announced that it is closing its neon curtains. In a press release notable for its universal lack of capital letters (the sole exception, oddly, is the first name of assistant manager Audrey Luce), owners Anne and Philip Stein gave no reason for the closing other than that "all good things must come to an end" — a sentiment followed by the becomingly modest "after 20 years at the front of Portland’s art scene, a gallery legend comes to a close."
All merchandise is to be sold at discount until the Stein disappears and we can all go back to thinking of glass as something you pour beer in. "The Steins would like to thank everyone who has made this gallery possible for so many years," concludes the press release. "Come in and bid a fond farewell."
