This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is magnificentaur! 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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Buff Phil Collins? Thank You, Art.
I know fine art when I see it, and Phil Collins is looking fine. Local musician/artist Jay Winebrenner has a new art show entitled PHIL’D OUT which reimagines the Genesis leader as I have always seen him—a flextactular piece of muscular man-meat. The show is running all this month at Tiga (1465 NE Prescott), so […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Damien Gilley Damien Gilley’s Decoy, on view at PNCA’s Manuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery The First Thursday artwalk is going down tonight on the west side. After the jump are expanded details on my top picks of the night, but first, here’s a quick rundown of the highlights: Damien Gilley‘s Decoy opens at PNCA’s Manuel Izquierdo […]
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This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Jordan Strong! 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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Skate & Create
Creativity, at it’s core, requires fire. Like real dangerous burn-your-beard-off FIRE. Skating, just like jazz, is an expression of pure human creativity. Finally someone made a skate video that blends skating and lighting shit on fire. This hot little gem of a video is just one of four entries in TransWorld Skateboarding’s Skate & Create […]
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Tonight: Laura Hughes at Appendix Space
Laura Hughes Laura Hughes’ Passed Presence at the Portland Building A few weeks back when I spoke with Jenene Nagy about her upcoming curatorial residence at Disjecta, I asked who she’d match up for a collaboration if she could chose any two local artists. Nagy replied, “Laura Hughes and Tahni Holt.” It just so happens […]
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This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Adam Zeek! 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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Lonesome’s Pizza Delivers Happy Meals for Big Kids
Yesterday I ordered dinner from Lonesome’s Pizza (523 NE 19th St). When my buffalo-chicken pie arrived (referred to on the menu as a “Lou Ferrigno vs. a shark with throwing stars for teeth”), I opened the box to find something unusual: Inside was my sriracha-doused miracle, as well as a CD glued to the lid, […]
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Paper Cut at Compound Gallery
Compound Gallery Eatcho’s “Bird” I was over in China Town yesterday and stopped by Compound Gallery (107 NW 5th) to check out their current show, Paper Cut, which challenged local and international artists to make works from chopped-up paper. Some artists took that task literally, like Bryce Flint-Sommerville, whose “Yang Liwei First Taikonaut” is a […]
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This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is J.bomb! 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 group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Is Banksy in Portland?
A number of people keep dropping these photos of what looks like Banksy art into our Flickr pool. Banksy is a super famous street artist who has been able to hide his (or her… or their) identity for many years while working to change the way people see art. I used to think Banksy was […]
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What are the Chances for History Museum Tax Passing?
The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) surprised me, at least, on Friday when they announced that they’ll be aiming to put a five-year $10 million bond measure on the Multnomah County ballot in November. I have to wonder how asking voters to pony up to save this cultural institution will affect the arts funding measure that’s […]