The Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Fashioning Cascadia finally opens today! I was able to attend a press preview while the final touches were being put on yesterday morning, and I’ll be back; there is a lot to take in, so allow yourself plenty of time to engage in all the multimedia doodads that make up […]
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This Is Your Last Weekend to See Rodrigo Valenzuela at Archer Gallery
Jenna Lechner wrote a lovely piece in this week’s paper about artist Seattle artist Rodrigo Valenzuela, who’s got a show at Archer Gallery through this weekend: IT’S RARE to see art that strikes an intellectual nerve, a visual nerve, and a personal nerve, but the photographs and videos in Rodrigo Valenzuela’s fantastic show Help Wanted […]
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“Prairie Porn” and Product: Kinfolk‘s Ouur
It’s been somewhat difficult to keep track of all the ways Portland’s been made fun of in the national media over the past couple weeks between our urine-phobic water management and twee adverts for failed insurance web sites, so don’t feel too bad if you missed the NYT‘s shot aimed at the Portland-based Kinfolk magazine: […]
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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 […]
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Blue Rider Design: The World-Class Textile Library in Portland That You’ve Probably Never Seen
Though Caleb Sayan, the manager of Blue Rider Designs, has made sporadic public appearances in Portland over the years, in general the Old Town-based textile library that “houses and maintains an international collection of over 40,000 textiles and original artwork” maintains a low profile. It doesn’t keep public hours, for starters, and rather quietly moved […]
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ATTENTION SCOFFLAWS: You Have Until Midnight to Pay the Arts Tax
Because our reader polls are super-duper scientific, it’s a proven fact that 35 percent of eligible Portlanders will refuse to pay the city’s $35 arts tax by midnight tonight. Based on population alone, that’s 200,000 people who’ve decided they can simply get away with not paying a tax approved by 62 percent of voters just […]
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Adam Arnold’s “BOOM”: Another Point of View
It’s been a couple weeks now since Adam Arnold‘s spring show—his first traditional (-ish) runway show in a couple years. I posted a few images with my recap of the event soon after, but more images have come in from longtime Arnold collaborator Christy Klep that help fill out the takeaway from a presentation that […]
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Oh, Crap. It’s Time to Pay the Arts Tax! HAVE YOU DONE THAT YET?
Other papers in town (cough… the Oregonian… cough) seem to be making quite the splash these days with posts built around reader polls and/or comments plucked from previous stories. And now we want to play, too! So here’s a question: Have you paid the arts tax yet? It’s due next Tuesday, April 15. I have […]
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Museum of Contemporary Craft Director and Chief Curator Namita Gupta Wiggers Steps Down
Yesterday evening a press release went out announcing that Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Craft Namita Gupta Wiggers is stepping down from her full-time role at the institution after 10 years. Wiggers oversaw the museum’s move from Corbett Ave to the heart of the city, doubled the size of its collection, […]
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Early Hints of a Liza Rietz x BOET Collaboration
Design collaborations are common enough, but early word on one slated for early fall has caught my particular attention. Liza Rietz and BOET‘s Emily Bixler are apparel and accessory designers for the most part, but both of their work easily overlaps with fine art perspective. Rietz’s designs, especially her one of a kind masterpieces, are […]
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Notions of Beauty: NW Fashion Photography Now
As if it needed further emphasis, the relationship between fashion and photographer has been underscored on the regional level of late by the unprecedented number of lookbooks being produced by shops and designers. And so it seems an appropriate time to celebrate that symbiosis with a proper art show: Notions of Beauty: NW Fashion Photography […]
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Hales’ Office: Time for Last Thursday Vendors to Start Paying Fees… “Probably” This Year
Pressed by Commissioner Amanda Fritz to show some of his cards during a budget work session this afternoon, Mayor Charlie Hales laid out his office’s “nutshell” strategy for tamping down—and not paying for—the NE Alberta bacchanalia known as Last Thursday. Some of it’s familiar: The city wants out of the business of mustering volunteers and […]