Dan Burleigh Phillips has been painting furiously these past few weeks in preparation for Saturday’s Art in the Park Show & Sale at Mill Creek Park in South Portland. Leading up to the show, he likes to spend several weeks at Mount Desert Island preparing new work. He used to live in Scarborough, but now […]
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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Jamie Wyeth stands alone
Since the death of his father in January, he has thrown himself into work – his ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ exhibition opens in Rockland this month.
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Arts Dispatches
NEW GLOUCESTER Native American market, demonstration on Aug. 28 Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum on Route 26 will host the Maine Native American Summer Market & Demonstration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 28. Admission is free. The event will include hand-woven ash splint and sweetgrass baskets, traditional etched birch bark vessels, stone sculptures, wood […]
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Arts Planner
This week At 7 p.m. Saturday, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion will play a benefit concert for Ever After Mustang Rescue at Kennebunk Town Hall, 1 Summer St. Tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Kennebunk singer-songwriter Jennifer Comeau will open the show. A Biddeford-based nonprofit organization, Ever After Mustang Rescue […]
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The puckish painter
Barbara Ernst Prey, a world-renowned artist with a slew of new work on display at her Port Clyde gallery, is also a card-carrying hockey mom.
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Diverse lineup for chamber music festival
PORTLAND – The Portland Chamber Music Festival is known for its risk-taking and sometimes unusual programming. Such is the case with the festival-opening concert, scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine. The program features all-harp, all the time. “The harp is not what you would normally hear,” […]
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Art and Theater:High in fiber
More than 50 studios are participating in Maine Fiberarts’ now-annual celebration of all things woven, quilted and stitched.
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On the road again with Willie stays fun as decades fly by
One might assume that Mickey Raphael would grow bored playing his harmonica alongside Willie Nelson for almost four decades. But Raphael says he still enjoys a musical rapport with his boss, and as much as he might like to slow down the near-constant touring — the band plays 130 shows a year — he finds […]
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Lewiston ‘kid’ living a TV dream
Jake Sasseville, 24, has landed a syndicated late-night talk show gig to be shown in 55 markets.
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Sculpture on Fore St. attractssteady flow of complaints
Fed up businesses say an art landscape on Fore Street has become an eyesore and they want it gone.