Saturday, November 14 marks the sixth year of Content, a live fashion installation that takes over the entire second floor of the downtown hotel. Over 20 emerging Portland brands are each given a room to transform into an art installation that gives attendees a stimulating, multimedia glimpse of the creative process behind the products—the emphasis […]
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The Weekend Shopper: First Thursday Edition with Alder & Co., Tanner Goods, and Odessa!
Thursdays are definitely the new Fridays when it’s a First Thursday. Please update your worksheet from earlier this week: THURSDAY, NOV 5 • New markdowns are on over at Alder & Co., which is slashing prices on their fall clothing just in time for when you really need it. Alder & Co., 616 SW 12th, […]
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Cameron Whitten Named New Executive Director of Know Your City
Know Your City Cameron Whitten Today, local history nonprofit Know Your City announced its newly-hired executive director: local activist and KYC board member Cameron Whitten. From an email sent by KYC staffer Benjamin Gerritz: The Board of Directors at Know Your City is excited to announce Cameron Whitten as our new Executive Director! For anyone […]
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The Week in Art: Tavi Gevinson, YA Lit for Adults, and Cuba Libre
Owen Carey Cuba Libre will make you wish you’d taken those salsa lessons your ex suggested. Rookie Editor in Chief Tavi Gevinson is headed to town! Are you a grown adult who reads this website for teenagers? You’re not alone! And per our interview, you have Gevinson’s blessing: And unless you’re leaving “weird comments from […]
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Announcing the Lineup for Content 2015!
Portland’s Ace Hotel is gearing up on the 2015 edition of Content, on Saturday, Nov 14. Originally conceived by a team including apparel designer Gretchen Jones, Content invites the city’s community of designers to divvy up rooms on a floor of the hotel, transforming each room into installations that reveal the creative inner workings behind […]
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Environmental Impact Statement Collective Seeking Proposals from Artists
Environmental Impact Statement Arts collective Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which we profiled back in July, have a call out to local makers of any discipline for “a show that will not happen if logging commences on the north slope of Mt. Hood.” If you haven’t heard of EIS, they’re the group that takes local artists […]
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The Week in Art: Alicia Jo Rabins’ Acid-Dropping Unicorns, Idris Goodwin’s Hip-Hop Musical, and Rape Jokes That Are Actually Funny
Sara Brown The performance artist Adrienne Truscott, whose one-woman stand-up set about rape jokes continues this weekend at BoomArts. A Torah scholar, mother, touring musician, frontwoman for Girls in Trouble, and composer of the performance piece A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff: That’s Portland writer Alicia Jo Rabins. Joshua James Amberson writes of her latest, Divinity […]
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Riot Grrrl-Focused Art Show Molly 16’s Rock n Roll Fantasy Opening at PNCA
Amber Dawn Leave it to Portland to have a wealth of riot grrrl-adjacent art shows going on simultaneously. MoCC’s Alien She is open through January, and a new show with riot grrrl ties opens at next week’s first Thursday at PNCA’s 511 Gallery. Successfully Kickstarted last spring, Molly 16’s Rock n Roll Fantasy features multimedia […]
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There’s a $64 Jean-Michel Basquiat Burger in NYC, Because Nothing Is Sacred Anymore
jpvargas via Wikimedia Commons This is arguably a better tribute to the artist than a fucking $64 sandwich. Just in from Hyperallergic: “PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its ‘stunt burgers,’ is hoping Basquiat’s name will help sell a $64 burger. It’s enough to make a starving artist cry.” […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Design Week Portland, Hair is Art, and Tiffany Bean Designs
WEDNESDAY, OCT 14 • Design Week Portland‘s mini pop-up version of itself is in mid-swing (look for the big one in spring). Tonight features a lecture at Ziba titled “From the Fringe to the Everyday: Realizing the Future Through Design,” tomorrow there’s an open house at Spooltown and a Paula Scher lecture on, among other things, […]
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Behold Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photos of Oregon’s Migrant Farmworker Families
From 1935-1944, the US government did something unthinkable today: It funded art. To curry support for the Farm Security Administration’s programs to benefit farmworker families displaced by the Great Depression, photojournalists were dispatched to document the programs’ necessity. The result was 170,000 photographs, and through the miracle of the internet, the entire collection‘s now been […]
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In Art News: A Gender-Swapped Twilight, Protesting Renoir, Remembering Chantal Akerman
Pierre-Auguste Renoir [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons What do you think? Does this guy suck at painting? REJOICE! Kill Rock Stars is releasing albums from both Ian Karmel and Emily Heller next month. One of them was even recorded in Portland. CAN YOU GUESS WHICH ONE Hey, here’s the gender-swapped version of […]