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, 2020
Bates compiling complete catalog of Marsden Hartley’s paintings and drawings
Portland art historian and Hartley expert Gail Scott is leading the project.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2020
Maine Media Workshops receives its largest grant
The $1.125 million gift will help bolster the Rockport school’s Arnold Newman Prize in Photographic Portraiture.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
The artist is gone, but will Robert Indiana’s ‘HOPE’ carry on?
A Maine court is being asked to help settle a dispute between the artist’s estate and one of his collaborators.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Drought conditions cover much of Maine, and there’s little relief in sight
The dry weather is beginning to take its toll on farmers who have no access to irrigation.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2020
Westbrook artist wins $25,000 fellowship
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation was founded in 2015 by artists Joan Beauregard and David Ellis in Rockland.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2020
Portland’s virtual Bach festival premieres with all-star lineup (can you say RBG?)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a family friend of festival founder Lewis Kaplan, recorded a line for a program about racial justice, presented on YouTube starting Sunday.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
Whom does the view of Katahdin belong to?
An observation tower put up for hikers changed the view for artists, a conflict that could continue with more development in the area.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2020
Paintings emerge from storage to show Cushing cottage in early days as family getaway
While artist Nancy Wissemann-Widrig rides out the pandemic at the home, her half-century-old work is up at Caldbeck Galleries in Rockland.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2020
Friendship artist shows peaceful paintings at her newly reopened gallery
The year-old Salt Pond Gallery is in a charming former schoolhouse.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2020
New studio complex for artists set to open in Portland
The developer of a new building at Cassidy Point wanted to fill a need for affordable studio space in the city.
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