A new exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA features the multimedia work of Megan and Murray McMillan.
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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Female painters boldly defy definition in timely show at CMCA
‘Skirting the Line: Painting Between Abstraction and Representation’ coincides with Women’s History Month and the centennial of the suffrage movement.
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Advisory against large gatherings leads to widespread event cancellations
The Portland Symphony Orchestra and Portland Ovations are among the organizations taking quick action, while the Portland Museum of Art and Portland Stage are weighing their options and planned to issue a joint statement Friday.
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Monhegan Museum reaches its $2 million fundraising goal
With a boost from the Wyeth Foundation, the island museum wrapped up its campaign nearly a year ahead of schedule.
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Artists convene to discuss climate crisis
Former Portland poet laureate Martin Steingesser organized Artists Sing Out for Life and the Planet on Saturday in Yarmouth.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Times Record
Theater Project puts Mainers’ Holocaust stories on stage
A new play in Brunswick sets the true accounts to music.
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Portland ‘the way it is’ reflected in photos
The Cove Street Arts photography exhibition, ‘Portland 2020,’ shows the city in 99 photos.
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Hear the music Mainers would have listened to back in the day
The DaPonte String Quartet is taking its bicentennial program of early Maine music on tour.
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Two new plays take on the contents of a storage container and the mother of a school shooter
Bare Portland and the Dramatic Repertory Company present the plays in Portland this week.
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Composers celebrate bicentennial by putting music to our years
Maine’s natural beauty inspires artists as they reflect on 200 years of statehood.