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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PublishedJune 27, 2013
Watercolorist Prendergast takes viewers to the beach
Bowdoin opens a new show of art that fairly sings, ‘School’s out!’
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PublishedJune 27, 2013
Five works of art that speak to America the beautiful
Certainly, there is art for every occasion. For the Fourth of July, we offer five pieces of art that capture the American spirit. • We must start where it all began, with John Trumbull’s ambitious oil painting “Declaration of Independence.” The large canvas hangs in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, and depicts the members […]
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PublishedJune 24, 2013
Portland art committee launches educational site
The Portland Public Art Committee has launched a new website in an attempt to educate people about the city’s public art collection.
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PublishedJune 23, 2013
Joan Baez: Just plain folk
Ironically, it was ‘all opera and classical’ growing up for Joan Baez, who of course would go on to become perhaps the iconic singer-songwriter of her generation.
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PublishedJune 20, 2013
Philip Isaacson, iconic Maine arts critic, dies at 89
Isaacson was a cultural leader, attorney, public servant and Telegram columnist.
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PublishedJune 20, 2013
Wegman opens MECA summer lecture series
It will be a win-win for artist William Wegman and his audience as he gains insight about his work by discussing it.
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PublishedJune 16, 2013
Bob Keyes: St. Vincent Millay returns to Maine roots in cabaret-style revival
This summer in Stonington, Linda Nelson and the creative team at Opera House Arts will explore the life and times of Maine-born poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with an original musical, “The Millay Sisters, A Cabaret.” Opera House Arts presented a one-act version last summer on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Nelson’s poem […]
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PublishedJune 16, 2013
A barn-turned-theater in Berwick thrives
Since 1972, the quaint Hackmatack Playhouse has thrived in an idyllic setting in Berwick, complete with a herd of bison out back.
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PublishedJune 13, 2013
Summer theater: Silly ‘Millie’
A goofy musical comedy with a big heart, the Tony Award-winning ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ opens at Ogunquit.
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PublishedJune 13, 2013
Verily we role along
Acorn Productions’ outdoor Riverbank Shakespeare Festival brings not one but two shows based on works by the Bard.
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