Bob Keyes

Staff Writer

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.

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Dispatches

by Bob Keyes July 10, 2011

CAMDEN Sebold show to feature more than 100 artists Back for its 35th year, the Carol Sebold Summer HarborArts Juried Show will open in Camden on Saturday and continue through Sunday, July 17. More than 100 established and emerging artists and crafts people will show and sell their work at the show. Featured fine works […]

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Planner

by Bob Keyes July 10, 2011

• The summer concert series of the Friends of Kotzschmar Organ begins this week with Felix Hell, the German-born organist of great renown. He’s performed on the Kotzschmar several times, and FOKO is lucky to continue to lure him back to Portland. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and features the century-old organ that […]

Reckless conduct with a paintbrush

by Bob Keyes July 10, 2011

When staring down a blank canvas, Francine Schrock aspires to apply her
strokes with ‘reckless abandon.’ See how she fares in a new Portland show.

Arts & Entertainment

Bob Keyes: Something funky’s going on in Lewiston

by Bob Keyes July 10, 2011

Things may get a little funky at the Bates Dance Festival this summer. The festival — 29 years old and growing stronger by the year — opens this week in Lewiston. Director Laura Faure has worked her usual magic to bring together some of the most exciting and interesting contemporary performers. They will give concerts […]

Life & Culture

Music bouquet full of styles

by Bob Keyes July 7, 2011

The Mainely Music Festival runss Friday through July 29, with performances at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor and at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Planner

by Bob Keyes July 3, 2011

• In Waterville, the Colby College Museum of Art hosts separate but related exhibitions that bring together photography from various periods in American history. “American Modern,” opening Saturday, showcases photographs from the 1930s by American masters Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans with loans from major collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery […]

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Cover boy

by Bob Keyes July 3, 2011

The whimsy of Monhegan artist Charles Martin, long a go-to illustrator for The New Yorker, is on display in a new exhibition.

Arts & Entertainment

Bob Keyes: Haystack marks 50 years of ‘shingles and lichen’

by Bob Keyes July 3, 2011

Not that you need an excuse to go to Deer Isle in the summer. But if you do, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts opens an exhibition today worthy of your attention. Curated by Falmouth architect Carol Wilson, “Haystack’s Architecture: Vision & Legacy” is on view at Haystack’s Center for Community Program through the fall. […]