Bob Keyes

Portland Press Herald

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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Published
October 30, 2020

Colby College museum acquires Jacob Lawrence prints of Haitian revolutionary

The late artist, who documented the African-American experience, has been in the spotlight recently.
Published
October 29, 2020

News Center Maine’s Lee Nelson will anchor his last broadcast Friday

The Channel 6 newscaster is retiring from his more than 30-year career to work as a personal trainer.
Published
October 29, 2020

Art center in Rockland hires new executive director

Timothy Peterson, currently executive director of the Northfield Arts Guild in Minnesota, will join the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in January.
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October 26, 2020

Questlove looks for his musical roots in Maine

When he was 5, a woman in Portland bought him his first records. Now he wants to find her.
Published
October 26, 2020

One-woman play about motherhood becomes new web series

Portland playwright and actress Bess Welden filmed episodes of ‘The Passion of the Hausfrau’ with her son, throughout their home.
Published
October 26, 2020

Maine artists lose $1 million public art contract

The pandemic’s toll on a Seattle convention center’s revenue led to the complicated project getting cut.
Published
October 25, 2020

Play by the rules: Portland Stage welcomes a live audience and the responsibility that comes with it

Working under strict Equity guidelines, the theater company knows its success in producing live theater will have implications for stages nationwide.
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October 22, 2020

Estate of Robert Indiana to depose late artist’s closest associates

A judge denied the Morgan Art Foundation’s motion to halt the depositions.
Published
October 21, 2020

Maine poet, activist and mentor Lee Sharkey dies at age 75

She published many books of poetry and was an influential editor and mentor.
Published
October 20, 2020

Portland Museum of Art employees seek to unionize

Management denies workers’ accusations of union-busting tactics, but says it doesn’t believe a union ‘is right for our museum.’