The success of online book launches and author talks could start a trend that outlasts the pandemic.
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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Using virus as a prompt, visual artists compelled to create
Painters, sculptors, drawers and photographers find inspiration from the crisis and, in isolation, time to work.
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No strangers to their industry changing, musicians quickly take gigs online
Some even say they’re getting more tips through social media performances than they did at live ones.
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Seasonal residents, and snowbirds, are finding their way to Maine
Tourist towns are seeing an influx of part-time residents trying to get away from crowded, less peaceful places in search of fresh air and open spaces.
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Klobuchar makes pitch to hundreds at Portland event
Ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary, the Minnesota senator presents herself as a moderate Democrat capable of uniting the party.
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Portland cartoonist’s Big Nate gets own show on Nickelodeon
The comic strip, created and drawn by Portland artist Lincoln Peirce, was greenlit to become an animated TV series.
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Inspired by his mom, North Berwick native on a mission to make space travel sustainable
Kyle Flanagan learns a lesson from his artist mother and turns his attention toward developing a sustainable space rocket.
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Governor lends her voice to new televised poetry series
Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum builds on the success of the ‘Poems from Here’ radio program and expands it into a TV series, featuring Mainers – including Gov. Janet Mills – speaking poems.
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Portland’s a star among U.S. cities in turnout for performing arts
A survey shows the metro area’s rate of attendance at plays, concerts and other performances is well above the national average.
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Best known as a muralist, Rufus Porter was much more
An exhibition at Bowdoin College reveals that the greatest accomplishments of the painter, who grew up in Bridgton, were in science and invention.