LANDMARK: PICA’s 10th Anniversary Visual Exhibition NW 13th & Flanders, 242-1419, open through July 16; birthday party with DJs on June 11, 7 pm, $5-10 The PICA Annex is a huge, open warehouse space flanked by windows. Two walls run through the room, each navigating sporadic columns and growing in width toward the center like […]
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Disjecta Redux
The Nonprofit Returns to the Spotlight with a Massive Month of Art, Performance and Vision
Most of us don’t spend much time worrying about what words mean. We packed Disjecta’s former North Portland home for concerts, art openings and film screenings, but no one rushed home to trace the etymological roots of the venue’s name. The definition of the word “disjecta” remained a mystery; we all just assumed it had […]
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Liz Haley
Liz Haley showing Connection at Newspace Gallery, 1632 SE 10th, through May In the past, Liz Haley has exhibited large-scale color photographs that touch on themes of loneliness and isolation, but her recent work, Connection, moves in a new direction. For instance, she didn’t actually take the photographs, which are culled from ’70s magazine ads […]
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Stranger Than Fiction
The Surreal World of an Art Legend
In the Realms of the Unreal dir. Yu Fri May 27- Sun May 29 Whitsell Auditorium When Henry Darger moved into a Chicago poorhouse in 1973, he was 81 years old, dying, and alone, and only a handful of neighbors knew him. He was a lonely, reclusive janitor, marked only by the eccentric conversations he […]
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Robert Frank — A Place in this World
Robert Frank– A Place in this World Tuesday May 24, 7:30 pm @ Guild Theater; May 25 and 26, 7:30 pm @ New American Art Union Near the end of his short film Home Improvements, Robert Frank sits in a truck outside his home on the remote coast of Nova Scotia. He holds the camera […]
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We Go Round and Round in the Night
We Go Round and Round in the Night Mary Mattingly, PNCA’s Feldman Gallery 1241 NW Johnson, through June 25 “I believe wearable homes will be a necessity in the future,” said artist Mary Mattingly, seated in front of a small gathering at PNCA’s studios. “They will have pockets for your medications and artificial arms so […]
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I’m Staying Home
All Hail Verhoeven!
No director better bridges the divide between art house and Hollywood than Dutch transplant Paul Verhoeven, who weaves subversive themes and political commentary into cartoonish takes on the science fiction, action, and thriller genres. Check out these contemporary classics–and if anyone gives you shit, tell them you’re researching the postmodern phenomenon. Or trying to see […]
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An Interview with Jon Raymond
An Interview with Jon Raymond appearing with Justine Kurland at PICA, 224 NW 13th, 242-1419, Friday May 6, 7 pm, $8-10 PICA’s lecture series continues this week with a talk by photographer Justine Kurland and writer Jon Raymond. The two recently collaborated on a book project, Old Joy, which marries narrative text and visual art. […]
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Trouble in Tiny Town
Trouble in Tiny Town Savage Art Resources, 1430 SE 3rd, through April 30 There is sometimes a split second after you wake up when your dream world and the real world co-exist. For a brief moment, you are certain you killed your boss and his body is under the bed, or that you befriended the […]
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A Night Without You
A Night Without You by Anthony Georgis, Motel Gallery, 19 NW 5th, through April 30 The history of any hotel room is filled with possibility: drugs, murder, suicide, sex. But what most hotel stays really consist of: boredom, loneliness, daydreaming in a silence broken only by the monotonous chat of cable news anchors and the […]
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Naughty Genius
The Best of Pedro Almodóvar
The Films of Pedro Almodóvar dir. Almodóvar April 15-May 21 Guild Theater, Whitsell Auditorium Pedro Almodóvar’s films, which will be screened by the Northwest Film Center during the coming weeks, are brilliant melting pots of autobiography, fiction, and a studied love for the history of cinema. Almodóvar’s true genius lies in his consistent ability to […]
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Sharon Lockhart
Sharon Lockhart screening Structural Ethnographies, New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny, March 30-31 @ 7:30 pm; slide lecture @ Reed College Psychology Auditorium, April 1 @ 4 pm Goshogaoka, one of two films by Sharon Lockhart that will be screened by Cinema Project, opens with an interior shot of a Junior High gymnasium in […]