Worksound’s Drawing Shades reinterprets photography.
Jenna Lechner
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Final Week of a Great Show: Only Photographs at Newspace
It’s bound to be some of the best photos you’ll see in Portland: this is the last week to check out Only Photographs, on display at Newspace Center for Photography. Jake Stangel (a photographer himself, and a dual resident of Portland and San Francisco) curates the quality show (ending this Sunday, June 26). Samantha Contis […]
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Three Cheers for Another Year!
Wangechi Mutu The new issue includes art like this, by Wangechi Mutu. She is amazing. Good news! Portland’s luscious literary arts magazine Plazm will truly be releasing the 20-year anniversary issue of their magazine, and soon. They made the announcement earlier this week, after proclaiming about a month ago that they were having troubles meeting […]
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Tonight: First Friday
Newspace Center for Photography A photo of Brian Finke’s, from his 2468 series, featured this month at Newspace. As always, tailing First Thursday comes the First Friday art walk on the Eastside. It’s easy to forget, but with highlights like ADX’s grand opening, the inauguration of Half/Dozen’s new space, snowcones (edible, not painted), and solid […]
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Crazy Harry Smiths of Public Access
In anticipation of the Found Footage Festival (happening tomorrow! at the Laurelhurst!), I have been revisiting some old classics from public access TV. In review: Paint and Exercise TV: Cat-er-tainment: More after the jump. Volume One of the Psalty the Songbook series: (As if a giant foam book with legs and a blue face would […]
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Writin’ and Sellin’
Photo: Scott Mills “Sometimes when you’re walking through the store, seeing so many books on the shelves, you think, how can I cause a ripple in this gigantic ocean?” —Kevin Sampsell in the New York Times Author and Powell’s employee Kevin Sampsell received a nod in the New York Times‘ Book Review this past Sunday, […]
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Unfortunate Signage in SE
Spotted at 78th and Stark. And no, that is not Comic Sans…it is a knock-off font.
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A Peek Inside the Lives, Studios of Portland’s Creatives
Aww, design blogs: there’s nothing better to make yourself feel like a lazy failure (well, besides the Olympics). Clicking, glossy-eyed, through pretty photos of designers and artists in their modish homes and studios, sporting their sassy outfits, petting their pretty dogs, cooking their complicated meals; you realize what a shmuck you truly are. Carlie Armstrong […]
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Object Stories
Expanding PAM’s Outreach Efforts
PAM expands is outreach efforts with the engaging Object Stories.
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How Much Is That Piñata in the Window?
Award for best storefront in North Portland goes to Boom Boom Balloons (2739 N Lombard St): Awesomely alliterated title aside, what is more alluring than a decahedral—geometry is totally in right now—pumpkin piñata? Perhaps a hybrid ostrich-flamingo piñata, mid-flight? Or two SpongeBob and Patrick piñatas, frozen in a moment of intimacy? (Patrick looks reluctant; Sponge […]