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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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Uncertainty of vaccine rollout puts summer performance plans in limbo
This is when arts presenters usually set their summer schedules, but they don’t know what size audiences they can expect.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2021
Susan Conley comes home to Maine with latest novel ‘Landslide’
The Maine writer set the novel in fictional Sewall, based on Phippsburg.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
York musician Harvey Reid knows the value of the troubadour. He wrote the book on it.
The performer spent downtime from touring to research and write ‘The Troubadour Chronicles.’
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Painter makes home, and art, in Phippsburg fishing village
Fishermen and their boats are frequent subjects of Jillian Herrigen’s work.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Phippsburg oyster farmer builds community at home and business afar
With his Portland restaurant Maine Oyster Co. in takeout mode, John Herrigel shifts his focus to shipping shellfish and welcoming people into his wholesale operation.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2021
Tour Fort Williams art gallery from your home
Rachel Walls Fine Art goes all virtual, including a spotlight on the artist Cabot Lyford’s life.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2021
Tour Fort Williams art gallery from your home
Rachel Walls Fine Art goes all virtual, including a spotlight on the artist Cabot Lyford’s life.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2021
Colby museum receives 500 photos, including works of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange
Alumni Bill and Nancy Tsiaras give a gift from their extraordinary photography collection.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2021
In tribute to Jackson Pollock, a Maine artist unbottles his anxiety
John Moon shows his experiments with abstract expressionism in empty space at the mall.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2021
Shuttered by water damage, Portland synagogue readying to reopen for 100th year
Though there no plans for religious services, Etz Chaim Synagogue is home to the Maine Jewish Museum, which has a new exhibition in the works.
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State steers more vaccine to outpatient practices, independent pharmacies