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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.
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The Portland Museum of Art brings a touch of Europe to its galleries this summer with its latest exhibit.
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Theater director is reeled back in by lure of Maine and Monmouth
It was an offer she could not refuse. But almost as soon as Dawn McAndrews moved to Washington D.C., she longed to be back in Maine.
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Sexy 60: Maine art museum celebrates big birthday
With a cutting-edge new show, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art enters its seventh decade.
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‘Always … Patsy Cline’ in Ogunquit
Crazy. That’s what you’d have to be to miss ‘Always … Patsy Cline’ and the rest of Ogunquit Playhouse’s 80th anniversary summer lineup.
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Simple twist of fate brings The Bob Band together
The band performs Friday at Buck’s Naked BBQ in Freeport and Saturday at The Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport.
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Tennessee Williams’ ‘Camino Real’ opens short run at Lucid Stage
The back story of Tennessee Williams’ “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” is almost as interesting as the play itself. The great American playwright wrote “Camino Real” in New Orleans in 1946, in between “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.” He was in New Orleans working on “Streetcar” when he wrote this unusual […]
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• June LaCombe Sculpture at Hawk Ridge Farm, 90 Minot Road, Pownal, begins its spring and summer exhibition season with “Steel and Stone” featuring work by Roy Patterson and Stephen Porter. The group show also includes works by Anne Alexander, Lise Becu, Wendy Klemperer, Cabot Lyford, Jesse Salisbury, Melita Westerlund and many others. The opening […]
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Bound by a love for Monhegan
For a major summer exhibition, the Farnsworth Art Museum pairs a couple of artists — Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth — with a shared love for Monhegan island, especially for a particular house on its rocky shore.
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‘The soul’ of UMO art gets prestigious honor
He’s not sure how, he’s not sure when and he’s not quite healthy, but Michael Lewis says he’ll paint again.