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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Photographic memories

by Bob Keyes

Maine’s photo bender continues into October, with two major photography shows opening at two high-profile exhibition spaces in southern and midcoast Maine.

The Portland Museum of Art just opened “Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64,” which focuses on the schism that existed in photography in the 1920s and ’30s when a group of California photographers — Ansel Adams and Edward Weston most famously — challenged what was then the norm of soft-focus, posed and highly pictorial images.

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Five Maine Gubernatorial candidates begin final sprint

by Bob Keyes and Scott Monroe

AUGUSTA – The five candidates on the ballot for governor met in Maine’s capital city Saturday night for the first of two Great Debates, setting up the grinding final six weeks of the campaign as a spirited political sprint to Nov. 2.

The debate, sponsored by MaineToday Media and its media partners WGME-TV and WGAN radio, was broadcast statewide. The debate was open to the public, and attracted backers of the leading candidates.

Posted inArts & Entertainment

Arts Planner

by Bob Keyes

• In our rush to anoint a new celebrity diva with every turn of the moon, perhaps we’d be wise to remember the reigning diva has not relinquished her crown. There is no diva more deserving of the title than Liza Minnelli, a superstar by any measure. A winner of an Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Emmy […]

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