Capping off a season of hugely anticipated art events that included The Best Coast, the Oregon Biennial, Modern Zoo, and the amazing TBA Fest, this week’s Core Sample promises to be the most comprehensive and exciting showcase of local art to come along in recent memory. Billed as an “exhibition of exhibitions,” Core Sample takes […]
Chas Bowie
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It’s About Time
Some of the World’s Greatest Visionaries of Performance Art Converge in Portland for the First-Ever Time-Based Art Festival
Tickets available by phone or in person at PCPA Box Office, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335; each individual show: $10 for PICA members, $15 general. A pass to the entire festival costs $125 member/$150 general. If you consider yourself even the least bit artsy, dig this: The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is cooking up […]
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Fall Arts Guide!
Art! Theater! Books! Ego! It’s all here.
illustrations by Carson Ellis Animals typically hibernate in the wintertime, but not the wild, raging beast that is the Portland fine arts scene. That crazy creature sleeps during the summer. While you’re flocking to your “barbecues” and your little “picnics,” and sucking back your little “PBRs” (still Portland’s #1 domestic beer!), the fine arts scene […]