Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance doles out its annual prizes at Space 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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At ‘(stillness) 18’, the world around us is what’s for dinner
Fiddleheads, dandelion fritters and knotweed chutney make up the menu at the meal following the performance.
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Outdoor performance piece will celebrate silence
A group of artists will gather Saturday in Jefferson to tap into the quiet power of being in nature.
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For now, what caused Robert Indiana’s death remains a mystery
The Maine chief medical examiner offers ‘no guestimate’ for when autopsy results will be completed.
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Watch: MaineVoices Live with authors Melissa Sweet and Martha White
The writers got together in Portland for a conversation about E. B. White.
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Maine’s claim on the art of Robert Indiana
Though born in Indiana and a longtime resident of New York, more than almost all of the state’s other iconic artists, he made his home here.
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Teacher in USM program wins Ruth Lilly prize for poetry, $100,000
Martin Espada becomes the second person affiliated with the college’s Stonecoast master’s program to receive a major award this year.
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Want to be Portland’s next poet laureate? You’ll have to act quickly.
The deadline for nominations is Thursday.
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Robert Indiana’s death is a messy portrait, and Vinalhaven’s the canvas
As the FBI scours the island for evidence of exploitation in his final years, and orders an autopsy, it exposes a deep rift fed by the celebrated artist’s reclusive lifestyle.
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Robert Indiana’s estate will be used to turn his house and studio into a museum
Indiana’s will calls for his house on Main Street on Vinalhaven to preserve his collection and to be open to the public.