Bob Keyes

Staff Writer

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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Published
November 7, 2010

Arts Planner

• This is a big week for the Portland Symphony Orchestra. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the PSO with Robert Moody at the helm presents a program titled “The Planets.” Moody has long been fascinated with the idea of space and space travel, and has assembled a program of music that includes John Williams’ score from […]
Published
November 7, 2010

Bob Keyes: Off the grid . . . and back on again

Mark Wethli made a painting in 2003. Seven years later, another artist had a different idea for the use of Wethli’s “canvas,” and the original was painted over. The folks who commissioned Wethli’s original painting decided they liked it so much, they hired someone else to replicate it, using the same colors and even the […]
Published
November 7, 2010

Strong impressions

Photographer Bruce Strong shoots for the truth of a moment, whether it be joyous or heart-wrenching, hopeful or tragic.
Published
November 4, 2010

Art and Theater: Space odyssey

The PSO’s Tuesday program invites music lovers on an interplanetary journey.
Published
November 3, 2010

Portland arts group hires executive director

Jennifer Hutchins will serve both The Creative Portland Corporation and the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance.
Published
November 3, 2010

Monmouth theater director announces resignation

David Greenham has been producing artistic director at the Theater At Monmouth for 14 years.
Published
October 31, 2010

Bob Keyes: After making it big, MECA grad returns to artistic roots

PORTLAND – Ahmed Alsoudani came to Portland in 2001 with faint knowledge of Western society and minimal training in art. He left four years later with a degree from Maine College of Art and the confidence that he could make his life as a painter. Alsoudani, who grew up in Iraq and now lives in […]
Published
October 31, 2010

Almost there

Following his success with ‘Almost, Maine,’ playwright and actor John Cariani puts the final touches on a new Maine play, ‘Last Gas,’ before its premiere at Portland Stage.
Published
October 31, 2010

Herbie inspires art devoted to trees

YARMOUTH – The majestic elm tree known as Herbie succumbed to the ravages of Dutch elm disease this past winter. But Herbie’s legacy lives on. A group of artists from Yarmouth has kept the memory of the 217-year-old elm alive with an exhibition, “Majesty of Trees,” at Merrill Memorial Library. The exhibition includes two distinct […]
Published
October 31, 2010

Arts Planner

On stage • A new Shakespeare play? Hardly seems plausible. See for yourself at 8 p.m. Monday, when the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble continues the company’s 2010-11 season with another edition of the troupe’s “Sonnet and Soliloquies” series at the Wine Bar on Wharf Street in Portland. Monday’s pre-election edition will feature four selections from “Double […]

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