Preacher, painter, prolific writer: Jonathan Fisher was all this and more as a man uniquely of 18th and early 19th century Maine.
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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Bob Keyes: J.Crew dabbles in Homer’s palette
PORTLAND – Winslow Homer, fashionista. Homer, the long-deceased American artist lovingly known for his paintings of the Maine coast, is also gaining a bit of reputation for his influence on what we wear and how we look. The trendy clothing retailer J.Crew turned to Homer’s earthy watercolors when it launched its new spring line. Frank […]
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Mainers can root for the home team
As Maine goes, so go the Grammys. OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but Maine will be well-represented at tonight’s Grammy Awards. Andrew Cyr, a product of the Fort Kent music program, has a nomination in the classical category for his work in the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble. The chamber group, which Cyr […]
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MFA’s Maine Connection
The Boston museum looked to the north for artisans with the old-school skills needed to help with the restoration of two of its historic period rooms.
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Art and Theater: VDay and ‘Monologues’
‘The Vagina Monologues’ plays around Maine in conjunction with VDay, a global movement to end violence toward women and girls.
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Maine museum appealing permit for Winslow Homer estate lot
It owns the studio and says construction could infringe on its easement for a septic system.
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Bob Keyes: A career takes off at a gallop
BRISTOL – A stunning winter day reveals itself outside Sarah Lynn Richards’ loft studio. The mid-morning sun masks the biting cold and coats the white landscape in a sheet of light. Richards peers out across a snow-covered field that is smoothed into a slight arc by the wind but otherwise unblemished. A stand of trees […]
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Arts Planner
This week • National Poetry Series winner Erika Meitner will read and sign copies of her books at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in The Landing in the University of Maine at Farmington’s Olsen Student Center. The event is free as part of the university’s visiting writers series. Recognized as “the new voice of intelligent and emotional […]
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The Contemporaries will host annual Winter Bash at museum
PORTLAND — The Contemporaries, a group of young art enthusiasts, will host its annual Winter Bash from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Portland Museum of Art. The museum will transform its Great Hall into an urban backdrop with graffiti art, fake construction sites and food carts. The “Urban Landscape” theme echoes the Rackstraw […]
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PORTopera co-founder recognized with honor
Jack Riddle, one of the founders of PORTopera, will go to New York City later this month to receive a National Opera Trustee Recognition Award from OPERA America, a national service organization. The South Portland resident is one of four recipients of the national honor. “I’m there with Houston; Colorado; Dayton, Ohio; and then little […]