Search Maine Yellow Pages 

UMaine hires new director for museum

The University of Maine Museum of Art has hired George Kinghorn as its new director. Kinghorn, who most recently served as deputy director and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida, begins his new post June 9.

Bob Keyes writes about the arts in Maine for the Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram. He's been in the newspaper business more than 20 years, having begun his career in 1985 as a news reporter for the Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville.

The Maine Arts Blog serves as a gathering place for what we hope will be hearty and respectful exchanges about the arts in Maine, and we're interested in blogging about all the arts — the visual arts and performing arts equally.

Subscribe to The Artful Blogger Blog