Attention, radio-loving geeks! Your favorite podcast is coming to town! No, I don’t mean Serial. I’m talking about Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor’s podcast that transports you to a desert town (some people think it’s in Texas) where all conspiracies are true, and there’s a faceless old woman who lives in […]
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This Week in Art: The Brilliance of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Bitch Planet; First Thursday’s Hungover, Just Like You!
Deconnick/De Landro/Image BITCH PLANET:Spot the exploitation tropes, then watch DeConnick et. al subvert them. Exploiting exploitation? With words by Kelly Sue DeConnick and art by Valentine De Landro, Bitch Planet is my new favorite comic—I wrote about DeConnick and Bitch Planet‘s first issue in this week’s paper. What’s especially interesting about Bitch Planet is its […]
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Free, Weird Films Tonight at the Church of Film’s Berlin Underground: German Punk & Fashion
Another option for those who love to mine the oddities of recent-ish history for inspiration: Tonight Church of Film is hosting a double feature of films that paint a portrait of the underbelly of ’70s and ’80s Berlin, 1985’s Berlin Now and 1979’s Ticket of No Return. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, that’s […]
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Dehen 1920: Lookbook of the Day
Legendary local knitwear company Dehen 1920 recently snagged Nathaniel Crissman (of Church + State and Portland Collection fame) as its designer and “overall creative content guy.” I certainly feel like I can see his stamp in their latest lookbook, which combines the varsity jackets and shawl-collared sweaters they built their name on with an equally […]
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Internet Treasure Steve Roggenbuck is Coming to Town!
Steve Roggenbuck If Tim and Eric and Walt Whitman had an alien child who was part-cartoon… In the world of post-internet art, Steve Roggenbuck is a rare gem. He’s 27 now, but Roggenbuck rose to internet prominence when he was a delicate 24. He’s an MFA dropout, who makes what I’m hoping is the future […]
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Calling All Oregon History Diorama-Makers! Your Time Has Come!
It’s that time again: DIORAMA TIME, the one time of the year you can relive what was arguably (according to me) the best part of elementary school—making a slapdash dollhouse, for education! After two years of hosting its Oregon history-themed diorama competition, the good people of Kick Ass Oregon History show no signs of stopping […]
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Cash Rules Everything at Disjecta and Nisus Gallery Shows
IT’S A TESTAMENT to Disjecta Curator-in-Residence Rachel Adams’ range that this fall’s Intimate Horizons is followed by Sightings, a collection of video installations from Jessica Mallios and Kevin Cooley. While Intimate Horizons featured Claire Ashley’s colorful, balloon-like, almost humanoid objects, Mallios and Cooley’s video installations challenge what we ordinarily expect from video art and photography, […]
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New Year, New Performances: Art Dance Parties, The Vibrator Play, and Comedy Shows Named After Natural Disasters
Physical Education Fact: January in the Pacific Northwest is gray, dark time. Luckily, indoor kids have these performances to look forward to in the new year, while we wait for the light to return: Allie Hankins, who Suzette Smith profiled last week, will launch Physical Education this February, along with Keyon Gaskin, Lucy Lee Yim […]
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Here’s Hyperallergic’s Annual Roundup of the Most Powerless People in the Art World
#ARTSELFIE game strong. Every year, amid best-of-the-year and most-powerful lists, art blog Hyperallergic publishes my favorite art-nerd alternative: The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World, an irreverent look at the unacknowledged cogs that make the world of art and art selling go ’round. Here are a few of the people the art world […]
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Today, in Art Mysteries: Who Put Up Those “Ca$h for Your Banksy” Signs?
If you’ve taken the #14 bus over the past month, you may have seen this stencil: Mad One If you call the number, you’ll be asked for your name, and directed to a Google Voice mailbox to leave a message. Who is behind this? The sign offers up no declaration of authorship. Could it be […]
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Comedy, Riot Grrrls, and Puppies: Here are the Projects Getting RACC Dollars for 2015
Allyson Mitchell RACC’d: Allyson Mitchell’s work is featured in Alien She, coming to Portland in 2015! It’s arts grant season, which is like Christmas for people who make things, if you had to write out a very detailed plan of attack and list of necessary funding items in exchange for a present. Does that sound […]
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Lookbook Looky-Loo
Usually I only draw attention to lookbook showcasing the local talents of apparel or accessories designers, photographers, models, and stylists—and I’m about to do that behind the cut. But first, I have to show you this: West End Select Shop What are we looking at here? Well: Loveleather, from New York, is a brand that […]