Nationale Tonight at Nationale from 6-9 pm is the opening reception for Helsinki-based multimedia artist Elina Tuhkanen’s Pilose Crux: Performative Sculptures from Finland. While the artist has worked in various mediums over the years (film, sculpture, paint on canvas, etc.), the photographs in Pilose Crux combine both performance and sculptural practices for their subject matter. […]
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Tonight: First Friday at Milepost 5
Milepost 5 Remember, developers, you can’t de-cut a red ribbon In the wake of the conversation surrounding Sarah’s Milepost 5 (MP5) piece, I wanted to point out that the management of the “community designed to provide [artists with] affordable live/work spaces” is keeping at least some of their promises. Namely, a quartet of on-site gallery […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Stacey Rozich Stacey Rozich’s “Trespassing Lands,” on view at Compound Gallery It’s the fourth day of the week for the first time this month, and that means people are headed West of the river to see some art. There’re a boatload of openings that fall on First Thursday this month, and I’d like to tell […]
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Tomorrow at YU Contemporary: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
Tomorrow from 4-7 pm, YU Contemporary is hosting their closing event for Selections from the PCVA Archive— the first in a series of preview exhibitions at the new, labyrinthine, Southeast art center (for more on this exhibit and the space, see the story I wrote a few months back on YU and their maiden, preview […]
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Disarming Disability
Disability and Art Start at the Door at A Somewhat Secret Place
Disability and art start at the door at A Somewhat Secret Place.
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James Franco Sold The Air…
…as art. For $10,000. The art work in question is titled “Fresh Air,” and it’s part of Franco’s recently-announced Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA), a digital exhibition space designed to feature ideas rather than physical works. Here’s the description from the MONA website: The Museum of Non-Visible Art is an extravaganza of imagination, a museum […]
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Tonight: Breeze Block PresentsVans Off The Wall Gallery Show
Breeze Block Opening tonight at Breeze Block Gallery from 7-10 pm is the Vans Off The Wall Gallery Show, featuring Jay Howell (who designed the characters for Bob’s Burgers), Tim Kerr, Rich Jacobs, and my personal favorite from the lot, Marco Zamora (for more on Zamora, check out this profile about his work that I […]
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A Screen’s-Eye View: What Do You Look like When You’re Blogtowning?
Phillip Toledano/New York Magazine Can you guess what he’s looking at? (Spoiler: porn.) We’ve all seen someone jump up from the couch and yell at a touchdown. We’ve all shaken a fist at a video game and accused it of cheating. And it’s no wonder that we share these experiences— we spend a lot of […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Blue Sky Gallery Sara Terry and Mariam X’s “Mariam, In My Life,” on view at Blue Sky Gallery Another month, another First Thursday art walk. Tonight’s West Side openings are, as always, many. Over at MOD, Marjorie has a nice list of events that fall somewhere between art and fashion, but I’ve got a few […]
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Star Trek, Poetry, and the Human Condition
A New Collection from Oregon Book Award Winner Tom Blood
Tom Blood’s The Raccoon grounds the human condition in pop culture.
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Tonight: Last Thursday
Appendix Project Space While tonight’s Last Thursday art walk should have plenty of street-level hoopla to stumble between, there are a number of new exhibits opening that I wanted to point out: FalseFront is hosting Michael Endo’s Pain Scale; Screaming Sky has new work from Guy Burwell; Gloss Gallery brought in Angy Wills’ Certain Absolutelessness; […]
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Alluring Automobiles
PAM’s Road-Ready Exhibit
PAM’s road-ready exhibit The Allure of the Automobile.