The law and the arts can be a murky mix. Beginning this afternoon, the Maine Center for Creativity and the University of Maine School of Law collaborate on a discussion series designed to help creative thinkers wade through the muck.

The Portland-based Maine Center for Creativity and the law school's Center for Law & Innovation host a discussion from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today at the law school with designer Angela Adams and designer-turned-lawyer Margaret O'Keefe. Today's session focuses on fine arts and graphic design.

Other sessions will include Connie Hayes, Scott Nash, Spencer Albee and others. For details, call 874-6521.

If you are out and about on Sunday, check out the "Linear Perspectives" exhibition at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA. Beginning at 2 p.m., Brown Brown hosts a discussion with several artists in the show.

Brown, curator emeritus at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, curated the show. It's CMCA's annual winter Portland exhibition.

And, speaking of Brown and Fitzpatrick, they will appear on MPBN's "Maine Watch" program at 8:30 tonight, 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday. Jennifer Rooks hosts a panel discussion about contemporary art in Maine. Also appearing is yours truly.

And finally, am I the only one who thinks the plastic-wrapped building that's going up at the corner of Marginal Way and Preble Street Extension looks something like a Christo installation?

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