Two of PDX’s most industrious and all-around likable visual artists, Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus, are hitting the road. And they’re taking their art, their guitars, and a collapsible gallery space with them. A performance by Weaver inside the Free Life Center, which is inside Holocene Last night at Holocene Jacques and Neefus unveiled […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is dooshy! 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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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is aldenkelley! 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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Blogtown Reviews Uncanny Valley
Remember last week, when I asked for Blogtown volunteers to go see and review a workshop production of Hand2Mouth Theatre‘s The Uncanny Valley? Well, regular commenters Graham and Two Squatting Women took up the challenge—and both came through with solidly written and generally positive reviews of the piece, which gets its official premiere next year. […]
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Arnold Is :-( in Total Recall: The Musical.
Between Road House: The Play and Hot Gun, Portland is rapidly approaching its saturation point with ironic musicals, but HOLY SHIT. Total Recall: The Musical is great and—dare I say it—oddly touching. Putting Douglas Quaid’s existential (extraterrestrial?) ennui to music? Brilliant. I demand a sequel immediately, preferably featuring a rock number by Kuato. Thanks to […]
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American Able
Unintentionally capitalizing off of American Apparel’s using models for modeling escándalo, Holly Norris’ “American Able” project turns the spotlight on a demographic completely ignored by mainstream advertising: the disabled. While those of us with dark skin or zaftig physiques may feel under-represented, people with disabilities simply don’t exist in the eyes of mass media. Via […]
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Holy Shit! Oregon Painting Society at the Tate Modern!
Portland performance art group the Oregon Painting Society is hitting the big time this week. Coming a long way from performing in private living rooms and little galleries around town, OPS was invited to participate in No Soul for Sale, an experimental art show at the Tate fuckin’ Modern in London this weekend. Good on […]
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Want to Win Tickets to Uncanny Valley?
Local theater company Hand2Mouth just provided me with two pairs of tickets to their new work-in-progress show Uncanny Valley, to be given away on Blogtown with the caveat that they’re hoping the tickets will reach non-typical theatergoers—people who are perfectly comfortable spending money on a movie or a concert, but don’t usually make it to […]
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R.I.P. Fantasy Artist Frank Frazetta 1928-2010
Frank Frazetta “Death Dealer,” also known as the album cover for Molly Hatchet Legendary comics and fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has passed away today, as confirmed online by The Beat. Even if you don’t know his name, you have certainly seen his artwork, which is perhaps the most influential fantasy art ever made. Frazetta started […]
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Tonight, First Thursday. Tomorrow, First Friday.
PDX Contemporary Gus Van Sant’s “boy and girl” on view at PDX Contemporary The First Thursday artwalk is tonight on the west side, and First Friday is tomorrow on the east— there are a few openings that have popped up on the radar which I’d like to pass along to you. After the jump: Gus […]
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