Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2012
The flowering of Tom Paiement
The artist’s newest mixed-media series, on view at Greenhut Galleries in Portland, departs in a major thematic way from emotionally darker previous work.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2012
Portland’s Kotzschmar Organ is piping down
About to turn 100, the mighty Kotzschmar will soon be dismantled and restored. But before the Portland treasure goes temporarily quiet, it will be celebrated in a festival of concerts.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2012
Lois Dodd exhibit: Seeing the artist as teacher
DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Sept. 15 featuring the paintings of Lois Dodd and 40 of her students over the years. “Lois Dodd and Her Students” illustrates Dodd’s high artistic standards as well as her dedication to her students, said Firehouse curator David Dewey. While the work […]
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PublishedAugust 9, 2012
Maine State Music Theatre takes audience to ’42nd Street’
Come and meet those dancing feet.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2012
Playwright’s shorts appeal to Lucid Stage’s director
Robert Manns’ ‘Maine Quartet’ is a collection of short plays that includes dramas and comedies.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2012
After Mumford, should Portland host more large concerts on Promenade?
City officials will meet Thursday to talk over the complaints and whether they should plan other major concerts at Portland’s East End park.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2012
Portland Chamber Music Festival
The 2012 edition features a living medical miracle as well as the usual stacked lineup of chamber tunes, from classical to contemporary.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2012
Longfellow statue will be focus of ‘Art in Our Front Yard’ talk
As part of First Friday Art Walk, the Portland Public Art Committee will hold its fourth session in the “Art in Our Front Yard: Portland’s Public Art Collection” series: a discussion of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow statue and “Art Underfoot,” both in Longfellow Square. Committee member Terry DeWan will lead a discussion of the artworks, […]
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PublishedAugust 2, 2012
One man, one show, one message
Aaron Calafato experienced the exploding student-debt crisis in a deeply personal way. Then he got mad and wrote a play about it.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2012
Bob Keyes: Art-world legend leaves big legacy
The first time I met Hugh Gourley, I was quaking in my shoes. It was 10 years ago this summer, and I had just begun my duties as arts reporter for this newspaper. I knew little about Gourley, except that he was retiring as director of the Colby College Museum of Art after 36 years […]
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