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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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
Managing her illness, artist Amy Stacey Curtis picks up her old pace
The artist from York County, who was bedridden with suicidal thoughts, is showing work in three exhibits.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2020
Abbe Museum hires new executive director
Christopher Newell, a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe from Indian Township, joins the Bar Harbor museum.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Good Theater resurrects old play about lies and Russians spies amid election season
‘Pack of Lies,’ which opens this week at St. Lawrence Arts, explores what happens when lying becomes part of our routine.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2020
Governor lends her voice to new televised poetry series
Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum builds on the success of the ‘Poems from Here’ radio program and expands it into a TV series, featuring Mainers – including Gov. Janet Mills – speaking poems.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2020
Portland’s a star among U.S. cities in turnout for performing arts
A survey shows the metro area’s rate of attendance at plays, concerts and other performances is well above the national average.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2020
A look at the state numbers in arts participation
While Portland rated highly in a new NEA survey of arts participation, Maine as a whole ranked in the middle of the pack. Key findings from Maine, the nation and other northern New England states: • 57.9 percent of adults in Maine attended a visual or performance art event in 2017, slightly higher than the […]
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2020
Couple partners up for interactive PMA show
Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, who met in Maine, open ‘Tabernacles for Trying Times,’ which includes a tent meant for conversation.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2020
Best known as a muralist, Rufus Porter was much more
An exhibition at Bowdoin College reveals that the greatest accomplishments of the painter, who grew up in Bridgton, were in science and invention.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2020
Best known as a muralist, Rufus Porter was much more
An exhibition at Bowdoin College reveals that the greatest accomplishments of the painter, who grew up in Bridgton, were in science and invention.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2020
Robert Indiana’s estate can’t block reproduction of artwork, judge rules
A federal judge dismissed 4 claims by the late artist’s estate case against the Morgan Art Foundation.
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