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This Week’s Mercury Arts Section!
VISUAL ART: Grass Hut’s closing party is tonight—as of next week’s First Thursday, the gallery will be housed in its new location at Floating World Comics. THEATER: While “Bollywood meets Waiting for Guffman” is an appealing tagline, it’s completely inaccurate to Portland Center Stage’s underwhelming Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure. BOOKS: Reviews of Dash Shaw’s BodyWorld […]
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Last Thursday and Some Friday Stragglers
The Goodfoot The Goodfoot presents Keenan Havens Tonight is the Last Thursday artwalk over on NE Alberta Street and it sounds like there’s a decent range within the openings offered. From the brainy circus of Appendix Space and their new partners at the Little Field Gallery, to the folky illustrations of Guy Burwell at Screaming […]
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Gus Van Sant Can Make Non-Moving Pictures as Well
[Please give a big Blogtown welcome to our new arts intern Noah Dunham, who will be filling the very large shoes of Jane Carlen. Seriously, she was like a 16-and-a-half. Those things looked like clown shoes.] What’s a famous director to do when his junk drawer is getting all filled up with arty Polaroids of […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is orb9220! 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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Troubletown‘s Lloyd Dangle Tonight at Reading Frenzy
Troubletown creator Lloyd Dangle is appearing upstairs at Reading Frenzy this evening; perhaps you’ve read the comic in the Mercury‘s pages. Dangle has a new book out, called Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could’ve Saved Us from this Mess, and he’ll be presenting his “Sly and Snide Comedy Slideshow.” As you know, slideshows are […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Andy Kehoe! 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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Portland2010: Artist Talks Tonight at the Templeton Building
Oregon Painting Society The Hexenwitch’s hexplex. Yesterday I posted a write-up of the Templeton Building’s Portland2010 exhibits. In that write-up I focus a good bit on Oregon Painting Society’s Hexenhouse, and “the crash” to Jenene Nagy’s Tidal. Just now I got an e-mail from Jason Traeger of Oregon Painting Society, not only informing me of […]
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Two Photo Galleries to Look at
Here are two random galleries for your Friday afternoon web browsing. First is the Macaroni and Cheese Flickr gallery. It’s pretty self-explanatory. I was pointed that way from the article on Dishwasher Pete’s macaroni box collection in LAB Magazine. The second, possibly unrelated gallery is from Sideshow World. It’s a collection of sideshow performers who […]
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Two Weekends Left: Portland2010
Oregon Painting Society Oregon Painting Society’s Hexenhouse There are just two weekends left to check out Portland2010, the Disjecta-organized, multi-location biennial which concludes on April 25. While our local biennial spreads out through the city, and there’s a whole lot offered within that loose cloud of locations, I feel that the Templeton Building (open Friday […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Honey Bumper! 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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Jónsi’s Remarkable Sounding Stage Set
It sounds like the Jónsi show tonight will be quite the production. The singer for Icelandic band Sigur Rós has gone all out for his first solo tour. UK-based design house 59 Productions has been hired for the show’s stage design and its filmed projections, and judging from the mini-doc above [EDIT: which Tonry posted […]