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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
    August 16, 2012

    The flowering of Tom Paiement

    The artist’s newest mixed-media series, on view at Greenhut Galleries in Portland, departs in a major thematic way from emotionally darker previous work.

  • Published
    August 12, 2012

    Portland’s Kotzschmar Organ is piping down

    About to turn 100, the mighty Kotzschmar will soon be dismantled and restored. But before the Portland treasure goes temporarily quiet, it will be celebrated in a festival of concerts.

  • Published
    August 12, 2012

    Lois Dodd exhibit: Seeing the artist as teacher

    DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Sept. 15 featuring the paintings of Lois Dodd and 40 of her students over the years. “Lois Dodd and Her Students” illustrates Dodd’s high artistic standards as well as her dedication to her students, said Firehouse curator David Dewey. While the work […]

  • Published
    August 9, 2012

    Maine State Music Theatre takes audience to ’42nd Street’

    Come and meet those dancing feet.

  • Published
    August 9, 2012

    Playwright’s shorts appeal to Lucid Stage’s director

    Robert Manns’ ‘Maine Quartet’ is a collection of short plays that includes dramas and comedies.

  • Published
    August 6, 2012

    After Mumford, should Portland host more large concerts on Promenade?

    City officials will meet Thursday to talk over the complaints and whether they should plan other major concerts at Portland’s East End park.

  • Published
    August 5, 2012

    Portland Chamber Music Festival

    The 2012 edition features a living medical miracle as well as the usual stacked lineup of chamber tunes, from classical to contemporary.

  • Published
    August 3, 2012

    Longfellow statue will be focus of ‘Art in Our Front Yard’ talk

    As part of First Friday Art Walk, the Portland Public Art Committee will hold its fourth session in the “Art in Our Front Yard: Portland’s Public Art Collection” series: a discussion of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow statue and “Art Underfoot,” both in Longfellow Square. Committee member Terry DeWan will lead a discussion of the artworks, […]

  • Published
    August 2, 2012

    One man, one show, one message

    Aaron Calafato experienced the exploding student-debt crisis in a deeply personal way. Then he got mad and wrote a play about it.

  • Published
    July 29, 2012

    Bob Keyes: Art-world legend leaves big legacy

    The first time I met Hugh Gourley, I was quaking in my shoes. It was 10 years ago this summer, and I had just begun my duties as arts reporter for this newspaper. I knew little about Gourley, except that he was retiring as director of the Colby College Museum of Art after 36 years […]