Two leading American Indian artists, one from California and one from Maine, are featured in a new show at USM’s Art Gallery.
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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Liza Minnelli still winning hearts
Liza Minnelli is breathless. You can hear it as soon as she takes the phone from her publicist.
“I’m on a band break,” she chortles. “Sorry.”
Minnelli, 64, has spent the morning working up songs from her new CD, “Confessions.” She’ll perform some of them, as well as music from throughout her career, in a concert Wednesday at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium.
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Faces by Yousuf Karsh
A portfolio of images by the great 20th-century portrait photographer is on display in Thomaston.
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Art and Theater: Shooting Stars
Emily Schiffer’s new exhibit at the Farnsworth showcases evocative images captured of and alongside her photography students on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
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Art and Theater: New kids on the block party
Portland’s rejuvenated Arts District, with its new restaurants, venues and galleries, is the perfect place for an outdoor art and music festival.
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Bob Keyes: A banner day for the Maine arts community
A coalition of museums, foundations, corporations and individuals band together to amass a pile of money large to keep 17 rare hand-painted silk banners made by Portland tradesmen in the 1800s in Maine.
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Arts Planner
On view Haynes Galleries in Thomaston will host an exhibition of portrait photography by Yousuf Karsh, one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. Karsh is best known for his grumpy portrait of Winston Churchill. His photography shows a talent for capturing an intimate moment as well as the essence of a personality. […]
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Life’s a PICNIC
Sculptor Wade Kavanaugh is working on a public art project at Peaks-Kenny State Park in Dover-Foxcroft.
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Music and Nightlife: 2 Live Crew
A little more mellow but still kickin’ it, and headed to Port City Music Hall.
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Art and Theater: Lincoln Perry’s PLACE
The peripatetic artist shows sculpture and paintings in his summer hometown.