Revisit the clothes … the hair … but most especially the infectious pop hits of the era in ‘The Marvelous Wonderettes.’
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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Arts Planner
• Portland-based Dramatic Repertory Company presents the play “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” through June 12 at the studio theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. Written by Moises Kaufman, “Gross Indecency” recounts Wilde’s real-life, turn-of-the-century trial. Using court transcripts and Wilde’s own writings, Kaufman tells the story of actual events […]
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War Illustrated
Steve Mumford’s ink drawings from Afghanistan and Iraq were inspired by another battle-tested illustrator of some renown: Winslow Homer.
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Harlow exhibit explores: What is a drawing?
HALLOWELL – The latest art exhibition at the Harlow Gallery began with Facebook. Monmouth artist Amy Ray noticed that artist friends were posting recent drawings, and many of them captured her imagination. Some were intensely intricate; others refreshingly loose. Some were abstract and free-form; others were precise. “It was inspiring to see what people were […]
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Review: Avett Brothers leave crowd energized and wanting more
PORTLAND – Maybe music can save us from ourselves. The Avett Brothers certainly give hope to that notion. Scott and Seth Avett write beautiful and mostly optimistic songs that suggest they are wise beyond their years. They sing them with a frenzied energy befitting their youth, but theirs are worldly songs of substance. On Thursday […]
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Avett Brothers leave crowd wanting more
PORTLAND — Maybe music can save us from ourselves. The Avett Brothers certainly give hope to that notion. The brothers Scott and Seth Avett write beautiful and mostly optimistic songs that suggest they are wise beyond their years. They sing them with frenzied energy befitting their youth, but theirs are worldly songs of substance. On […]
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Fringe-worthy
Art Walkers are invited to Daunis to view work from artists on the cutting edge of Maine’s jewelry-making scene.
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Avett Brothers build popularity, tour after tour
With banjo, guitar, cello, standup bass and piano, the band fuses bluegrass influences with rock, gospel and pop.
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Caponigro photos capture ‘hidden presence’
ROCKLAND — Paul Caponigro is one of the most important American landscape photographers of his generation. He is still very much alive and living in Cushing in midcoast Maine. This summer, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland features a selection of his black-and-white silver gelatin prints. “Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places” is on […]
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Event seeks to ingrain creativity in business
An event at the University of Southern Maine in Portland will answer the question: What happens when you put an art professor and a CEO in a room together? The event, From Imagination to Innovation, will run from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the University Events Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library on Forest […]