Suzanne Olson will leave the museum she has directed for 19 years in June.
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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Practicality, in life and craft, drives Maine’s most famous furniture maker
Christian Becksvoort’s new book speaks to the philosophy behind his work.
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New community space in Portland will create support for artists of color
Set to launch this spring, the Indigo Arts Alliance offers ‘an open door’ to a larger world of inspiration and connection.
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Mills puts poetry back in the inaugural mix
Wesley McNair will deliver a poem for Maine’s new governor, reviving an inaugural tradition that went away during the LePage years.
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Westbrook’s Al Hawkes, ‘a giant’ in country and bluegrass music, dies at age 88
Hawkes, who is credited with putting Maine bluegrass on the map, had lost his wife earlier this month.
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Photographer captures what’s left of the less polished Portland
Taking a long view of a city in transition, Mark Marchesi documents the loss of character and soul in a new book.
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A moving panorama casts a glow in Rockland
Many hands – and one motor – bring a ‘crankie’ about a local heroine to the Farnsworth Art Museum.
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Robert Shetterly’s 238 portraits of ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ shown together for the first time
The series, which the Brooksville painter began in response to the Iraq War, is on display at Syracuse University in New York.
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New play explores the love that Hollywood’s most famous witch had for Maine
‘My Witch’ tells the story of Margaret Hamilton, who played an iconic villain in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and formed a permanent bond with Maine when she came to do summer theater in 1940.
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Maine artists receive $100,000 in grants
The Maine Arts Commission names its annual fellows, and Space Gallery funds a new round of Kindling projects.