Science Photo Library Printing is fun for everyone. Maybe it’s the Holiday season and the inherent gift-appeal of prints (art that’s handmade but cheap). Or maybe Portland truly does love its printmaking. Either way, a week ago I wrote this piece on printmaking, and related newsletters continue to glut my inbox. Even at the grocery […]
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A Familiar Scene
New Shows Uphold Portland’s Printmaking Legacy
A handful of new shows reveal Portland’s printmaking legacy.
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Thoughts on Thoughts
Who’s in Charge? Investigates What’s Driving the Self
Who’s in Charge? investigates what’s driving the self.
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Filling Your Dance Card
The Fall Dance Season Is off to a Vibrant Start
Local dance organizations team up to promote a full fall schedule.
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zoe I juniper, A Crack in Everything
PICA Press photo for A Crack in Everything Prior to the show last night, I caught zoe | juniper’s A Crack in Everything Installed. If you’ve seen it (it’s free), you’d probably agree, it’s totally bizarre and unnerving. There’s a series of women, standing in a line with tubetops on; their hair is up and […]
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Offsite Dance Project, Edges
Edges is unlike anything else you’ll see at TBA this year. Based in Yokohama, Japan, Offsite Dance Project is among the few international artists (also including collective Claire Fontaine) at the festival, and they bring a totally different, but welcome, “non-Western” sensibility. The primary goal of the group is to extend dance into urban spaces, […]
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Commanding Compassion
The Intimate Sculptures of Cynthia Lahti
Cynthia Lahti’s tiny sculptures reflect thoughtfulness and intimacy.
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THE WORKS: Whispering Pines 10
Shana Moulton bathing, with Daisy Press on vocals Opera meets New Age meets Spandex. Last night was the single performance of Whispering Pines 10. Nick Hallett (vocalist and composer) is the collaborator to Shana Moulton, a Brooklyn-based artist, who has been working on her Whispering Pines series for nearly a decade. (This particular performance was […]
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Abraham.In.Motion, The Radio Show
Oops, there goes his shirt. Up over his head. Oh, MY. Yup. No doubt about it, Kyle Abraham is a beautiful, beautiful specimen. So are his six dancers. Abraham is the choreographer and emotive mastermind behind The Radio Show (which has received a fair amount of press, deservedly). It only makes sense that the troupe […]
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Rewriting History
Don’t Worry, We’ll Fix It: Ryan Wilson Paulsen and Anna Gray’s Aren’t Done with Print
With Don’t Worry We’ll Fix It, artists Ryan Wilson Paulsen and Anna Gray aren’t about to concede that print is dead.
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Change of Page
Inside the Fierce Dance of zoe | juniper
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey grapple with trauma in A Crack in Everything.
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Stormtroopers Seize Light Bulb Store
We’ve blogged about the store before, but perhaps not about the window displays. Every time I venture over to N Mississippi, I make sure and check out the amazing displays at Sunlan Lighting. Right now they’re boasting an alarmingly expansive collection of Star Wars Legos. Jenna Lechner For the full effect: Jenna Lechner Unfortunately, when […]