Artist/technologist Natalie Jeremijenko is a serious badass, and she’s speaking tonight at 7:30 pm for PSU’s MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (free to all!). Equal parts artist and engineer, Jeremijenko cross pollinates between activism and technology, often focusing on environmental awareness: Jeremijenko’s Environmental Health Clinic at NYU attempts to correct a “patient’s” relationship with the […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is wrightmight! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Portland Art Museum Takeover! Shine a Light Photos
Friday night, the line to get in to the Portland Art Museum stretched down the block. For the second year, the art museum turned itself over to the students of Portland State’s social practice art program for Shine a Light, an evening of “reimagining what could happen in a museum.” The dancing, beer, and nude […]
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So Lynda Barry Made a Painting About How Our Cover Story Made Her Feel
In a mind blowing bit of crossover, Lynda Barry, the amazing comics artist who I interviewed for the Arts section this week told me she’s interested in transcription and parsing out the way people talk. I recommend she read our feature this week detailing the best complaints to city hall. And she did! And she […]
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Further Thoughts on Tahni Holt’s Culture Machine
In this week’s issue of The Mercury, I wrote a preview of Tahni Holt’s new contemporary dance experiment Culture Machine that opened last night at Disjecta and runs the rest of the weekend. I commented in the preview that while I thought my interview with Holt fleshed out some interesting concepts about the piece (namely […]
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A Blog Post About Another Blog Post
Alison and Jacob went to Wordstock this weekend, and their coverage was great. Check it out here, here, here, here, and here. But especially check out Alison’s coverage of the comedy writing seminar. It sucked me in like a cuddly Hellmouth, and didn’t let me go for 15 minutes. READ.
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First Thursday Picks
www.robpea.com Rob Pellicer’s “Sandcastles,” on view at Breeze Block Hey guys, tonight’s the First Thursday artwalk over on the west side, and you know what that means— a cursory rundown of some art shows that may or may not be awesome, compiled by yours truly. What’s that in the distance? Cursory rundown, that’s what: The […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Todd Mecklem! Congrats and look we’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!
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First Thursday: Chromium Dumb Bell
My top pick among this month’s First Thursday melee: The Chromium Dumb Bell show at Galerie Salome (and you’d best check it during tonight’s opening from 7-10 pm if you don’t want to make an appointment). I first saw Chromium’s (real name Joanne Burk) work at a Portland Garment Factory opening, and was swept away […]
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More Mort Künstler, Please!
As previously mentioned, I adore me some Mort Künstler! So much so in fact, we chose him to grace our cover this week, sans our usual annoying cover text. Check out this amazing work of art involving the eternal battle between man, polar bears, and explosions here. And as promised, here’s more Künstler. While nowadays […]
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This Week’s Cover
Guys! I’m totally excited because this week’s cover of the Mercury features my fave pulp artist of all time, Mort Künstler! Check it out: Artist: Mort Kuntsler ISN’T THIS AMAZING?? What cracks me up is that it’s obviously telling some sort of story… but what’s the story? Offer your suggestions for what’s going on in […]
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WANTED: Ass Kicking Arts Intern!
[Previously posted, but you need a reminder, don’t you?] Do you just love the Arts?! Do you just love the Portland Mercury?! Then come take my job! We’re looking for a new Arts Intern and it could be you! But first, some criteria: • We want to get someone in here who is interested in […]