Signal Fire’s residencies bring artists to public lands, and give ’em a tent.
Jenna Lechner
Posted inTheater & Performance
Love and Marriage
Slumming Angel Unpacks Coupling in the Abstract
Slumming Angel unpacks coupling in the abstract.
Posted inArt
Beauty and Brains
Rodrigo Valenzuela’s Story Is Everyone’s Story
Rodrigo Valenzuela’s story is everyone’s story.
Posted inArtsy
Flora and Fauna Forevermore
APAK’s “Harmonious Kingdom,” on display at Hellion Gallery. This Saturday is your last chance to catch a great show in town—The Tall Trees of Portland, on display at Hellion Gallery (19 NW 5th Ave #208, Saturday 12-5pm). It’s a nice mixture of fantastical flora and fauna. Some might be sick of this style featuring “creatures […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
FLOCK: A New Center for Dance
The Biennial Closes, and a Dance Center Opens
A new dance center takes up residence in Disjecta.
Posted inArt
Birds on Film
Vanessa Renwick’s Good Year
Vanessa Renwick’s new show features the Chapman swifts and a score by Sam Coomes.
Posted inFeature
On Empathy
The Unsettling Sculptures of Tip Toland
Tip Toland’s unsettling sculptures at the Portland Art Museum.
Posted inProfiles
The Chronology of a Queen
Kaj-anne Pepper on Treating Yourself Like You’re Somebody
Kaj-anne Pepper and the craft of drag.
Posted inFeature
Portland2014
Your Guide to the Portland Biennial
Your guide to the 2014 Portland Biennial.
Posted inMovies & TV
Art Lessons
Recreating a Masterpiece with Tim’s Vermeer
Recreating a masterpiece with Tim’s Vermeer.
Posted inArtsy
Free Trip to Venice! (Almost!)
The very suggestive painting “Street Musicians” by Bernardo Strozzi, on display at the Portland Art Museum. The last thing you probably want to do on this sunny Friday is spend the evening in a drafty museum, HOWEVER: Today is Free Fourth Friday at the Portland Art Museum! Really short notice—it starts in T-1/2 hour—but it […]
Posted inDance
Heidi Duckler Dance: Dancing the End of Days
Anton Legoo Flame thrower at Heidi Duckler Dance I love watching dance in unexpected places, and fortunately, Portland offers up a lot of it. Example: POV Dance’s performance last month in the Leftbank building, which was great. And, this past weekend, Heidi Duckler Dance performed Ragnarok in the burned out old Taylor Electric Supply Company […]