The shift reflects changes in how artwork is made, shared and marketed.
Bob Keyes
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.
June Fitzpatrick to close Portland gallery in August
The city’s unsettled gallery scene continues a summer-long shakeup.
Portland’s Greenhut Galleries sold to California couple
Peggy Golden, owner of one of the city’s oldest commercial art galleries, sells its name, client list and framing equipment to John Danos and Kelley Lehr of Los Angeles.
Family bonds help ensure Maine artists’ legacies
Before they died, Frederick Lynch and Victor Romanyshyn gave their loved ones the gift of knowing what to do with their art.
Bowdoin College shows up for food fight with best-selling author
The school in Brunswick defends itself after Malcolm Gladwell calls its top-ranked food service ‘a moral problem.’
Delays linger after car fire on Maine Turnpike
All lanes have reopened following the fire reported at 7 p.m.
Agent in sting seeks probe, says legislator plotted to ‘go after’ Maine Warden Service
Rep. John Martin helped fabricate a news story on the Allagash operation and abused his power, Bill Livezey says in a complaint to the ethics panel.
Adele Donovan, longtime advocate for women struggling with alcoholism, dies at 91
She opened her house to women and co-founded Crossroads for Women, which provides addiction services in southern Maine.
Purloin Portland’s porcupine? Not this time
The back of the sculpture at the jetport, a replacement for one stolen in April, had come loose, but it isn’t certain that the damage was the result of an attempt to steal it.
LOVE of Dylan seen in Maine museum show
Common roots and shared experiences of two iconic American artists are woven through the Robert Indiana exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art.