The annual holiday show really doesn’t have much to do with the holidays.
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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Moscow Ballet teams with local dancers for ‘Great Russian Nutcracker’
Dance Studio of Maine students fill two-dozen roles.
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Maine women – and men – organize to join Women’s March on Washington
The action is scheduled for the day after Donald Trump is sworn in as president.
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Two Maine artists win $50,000 fellowships
The grants are unrestricted, so Anna Hepler of Eastport and Lauren Fensterstock of Portland can use the money for anything.
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Mayhem rears its head at Farnsworth Art Museum
‘The Art of Disaster’ depicts fires, natural disasters, shipwrecks and wars.
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Writing as Don Trowden, Caleb Mason explores one family’s tragic fall from grace
The Cape Elizabeth author publishes the second in a family trilogy.
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Emotional aftermath of presidential election: Wild elation, utter despair
Donald Trump’s victory makes his Maine supporters happy but leaves opponents sad, angry – and in the mood for comforting hugs.
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A great white whale’s influential tale
A Rockwell Kent-illustrated edition of ‘Moby-Dick’ is at the center of a new show at the Portland Museum of Art that reveals immense inspiration for artists.
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Gibson Fay-LeBlanc named interim director at SPACE
The Portland poet laureate will lead the arts organization during its search for a new director.
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Protesters in Portland urge Clinton to take a stronger stand against Midwest pipeline
A few dozen people demonstrate outside the Democrat’s campaign office Wednesday night following recent protests by Native Americans and others against the Dakota Access Pipeline project.