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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PublishedJuly 12, 2012
Glen Campbell brings ‘Goodbye Tour’ to Portland
Campbell, whose credits include “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Southern Nights” and “Rhinestone Cowboy,” has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2012
Wild times
Even the critters are having fun with the sculpture in a tandem show outdoors in Falmouth and Boothbay.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2012
The kid and the icon
Aucocisco is about to open an exhibition by Ellie Barnet, a young Portland painter with a fairly short resume. She’s proudly sharing the space with a recent presidential Medal of Arts winner, who also happens to be her grandfather.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2012
Worshiping at the altar of Church
A new show at the Portland Museum of Art gives admirers of 19th-century painter Frederic Edwin Church the chance to cast a reverential gaze on two subjects that he himself revered, which also happened to be in Maine.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Arts Planner: Revisit Moliere and Shakespeare
The 43rd summer season at the Theater at Monmouth kicks into full swing this week, with the opening of the Moliere comedy “Tartuffe.”
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Author Q&A: A history of Maine
In this exclusive interview, William David Barry discusses his new book, “Maine: The Wilder Half of New England.”
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Artist Frank Benson:Seasons in the sun
The famed artist made many of his great plein-air paintings at his beloved North Haven. An expansive new show at the Farnsworth featuring several of those works fairly glows with the distinctive Benson light.
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PublishedJune 28, 2012
Portland Performing Arts Festival: A bang-up job
Organizers call in the guys in the white coats – EepyBird, the Mentos and Coke explosion guys – to kick off the Portland Performing Arts Festival.
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PublishedJune 27, 2012
Granite sculpture ‘Tidal Moon’ to welcome Maine travelers
A gift from the collection of William and Mary Louise Hamill, the 14-foot piece by Maine sculptor Jesse Salisbury will be displayed at the Jetport.
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PublishedJune 26, 2012
Maine artisan honored for beauty of baskets, sharing of skills
Molly Neptune Parker is one of nine Americans to be named a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage fellow this year.
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