That pretty well sums up Hebron Academy student Yena Kang, who recently received national recognition for her considerable artistic talent.
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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Merle, Rosanne and friends descend on Portsmouth
The Music Hall hosts the Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival April 20-22.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.