The late artist, who documented the African-American experience, has been in the spotlight recently.
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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Estate of Robert Indiana to depose late artist’s closest associates
A judge denied the Morgan Art Foundation’s motion to halt the depositions.
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Maine poet, activist and mentor Lee Sharkey dies at age 75
She published many books of poetry and was an influential editor and mentor.
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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.’