Voices and Echoes introduces major players in the Japanese experimental art scenes.
Matt Stangel
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Bringing Up Bucky
Sam Green and Yo La Tengo Collaborate on The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Sam Green and Yo La Tengo collaborate to document the life of R. Buckminster Fuller.
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Copies of Copies. And Robots.
A Thomas Zummer (Partial) Retrospective
Philosopher/artist/historian Thomas Zummer investigates robots and images at PNCA.
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Identity Play
Paul Clay Baits Biases with How to Immigrate to the United States of America
Aspiring Latin pop star (and white guy) Paul Clay presents How to Immigrate to the United States of America.
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Weird Rumblings
Portland Gets a New Experimental Film Fest
The Experimental Film Festival aims to jumpstart Portland’s experimental film scene.
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James Franco Responds to Fucking James Franco
In a chain of highly-bloggable events, Hollywood icon James Franco recently made several public responses to local artist/writer/educator Sean Joseph Patrick Carney’s book of erotic fan fiction, Fucking James Franco. For an idea of how the book reads, there’s this little gem that imagines a yiffy Franco on the set of 127 Hours: With his […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Hellion Gallery Blaine Fontana installing Mergers & Acquisitions Friendly germs. Spooky ghosts. Something called the Limerent Alembic. This could only mean one thing: First Thursday! Scoot past the jump for details on a handful of exhibitions opening tonight during the Westside art walk. FIFTY24PDX Opening tonight at Upper Playground’s FIFTY24PDX Gallery, Benign, But Still Yucky […]
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Contemporary Definitions
Disjecta’s Biennial Portland 2012
Defining “contemporary art” at Disjecta’s biennial Portland2012.
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Worlds Apart
Two Blue Sky Exhibits Explore Mexico’s Drug Trade and the Hoover Dam
Two Blue Sky exhibits explore Mexico’s drug trade and the Hoover Dam.
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First Weekend Art Openings
Hellion Gallery Guys! Lots of art shows opening tonight and tomorrow! If you plan on hitting up any first weekend exhibitions, follow along below for some highlights, including a show by Jim Neidhardt at Blackfish that weighs the value of display devices against the content viewed therein, a pink argument in favor of fate by […]
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The Nothing Eaters
How Floating in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank Made Me Feel… Well… Nothing.
How floating in a sensory-deprivation tank made me feel… well… nothing. (And that’s good!)