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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
    April 15, 2012

    ‘I like to get creative’

    That pretty well sums up Hebron Academy student Yena Kang, who recently received national recognition for her considerable artistic talent.

  • Published
    April 12, 2012

    Merle, Rosanne and friends descend on Portsmouth

    The Music Hall hosts the Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival April 20-22.

  • Published
    April 12, 2012
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    Play ball

    Selections from Daniel Sonenberg’s opera ‘The Summer King’ are among a wide array of offerings from composers and musicians at the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival.

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    Arts Planner

    THIS WEEK The Maine State Museum in Augusta will celebrate Maine’s role in the evolution of the board game when it hosts an illustrated talk, “Milton Bradley and the Checkered Game of Life,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. David Richards, interim director of the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, will talk about the […]

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    Portland architecture cast in new light

    As he demonstrates in his photographic “Homage” to the painter, Clyde McCulley has a Hopper-esque appreciation for the play of sun and shadow.

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    Maine fisherman hopes to be Sundancing

    Joel Strunk, the son of Maine songwriter Jud Strunk, has made a feature-length film with a cast of stars for less than a $1 million.

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    The ‘Barn’ adds to theater workshop

    A wish come true for the Celebration Barn Theater: Summer intensive expands from two to four weeks and makes it easier for one lucky Mainer to attend.

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    Books Q&A: A big-picture portrait of Thomas Hart Benton

    In his new book, UMaine professor Justin Wolff creates a comprehensive portrait of the complex and contradictory muralist Thomas Hart Benton.

  • Published
    April 8, 2012

    Winslow Homer: The artist’s place in Maine

    As a $10.5 million restoration of the painter’s Prouts Neck studio nears the end, Portland Museum of Art prepares a big celebration.

  • Published
    April 5, 2012

    Emmy-winner Kressley to star in Ogunquit’s ‘Damn Yankees’

    Emmy Award-winner Carson Kressley will play Mr. Applegate in the adaptation of the long-loved Broadway hit.