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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.

Arts & Entertainment

Bates compiling complete catalog of Marsden Hartley’s paintings and drawings

by Bob Keyes August 16, 2020August 13, 2020

Portland art historian and Hartley expert Gail Scott is leading the project.

Arts & Entertainment, Local & State, News

Maine Media Workshops receives its largest grant

by Bob Keyes August 16, 2020August 15, 2020

The $1.125 million gift will help bolster the Rockport school’s Arnold Newman Prize in Photographic Portraiture.

Arts & Entertainment, Local & State

The artist is gone, but will Robert Indiana’s ‘HOPE’ carry on?

by Bob Keyes August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

A Maine court is being asked to help settle a dispute between the artist’s estate and one of his collaborators.

Business, Local & State

Drought conditions cover much of Maine, and there’s little relief in sight

by Bob Keyes August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

The dry weather is beginning to take its toll on farmers who have no access to irrigation.

Arts & Entertainment, Local & State

Westbrook artist wins $25,000 fellowship

by Bob Keyes August 10, 2020August 10, 2020

The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation was founded in 2015 by artists Joan Beauregard and David Ellis in Rockland.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

Portland’s virtual Bach festival premieres with all-star lineup (can you say RBG?)

by Bob Keyes August 10, 2020August 14, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a family friend of festival founder Lewis Kaplan, recorded a line for a program about racial justice, presented on YouTube starting Sunday.