Red Truck The Red Truck Boys I’m about six feet four inches tall, so I’m not super used to looking up at people. Noah Antieau, owner and director of the traveling New Orleans-based Red Truck Gallery, stands well above me, looking gracefully out-of-town in worn overalls and a tattered white shirt. “My mom [Chris Roberts-Antieau] […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is I M A U-M-N-B-N! 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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“What If”: Lost Titles Created by Saul Bass
You may remember some of the ultra-cool opening title sequences from the ’60s designed by filmmaker/graphic designer Saul Bass (The Man With The Golden Arm, North By Northwest, Ocean’s 11, etc.). So what if Bass designed the opening sequence for LOST? Perhaps it would’ve looked something like this. OMIGOD! I only wish Bass was alive […]
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Closed: Lawrence Gallery’s Portland Location
Last night The Oregonian‘s Bruce Hammond reported that the Lawrence Gallery’s Portland location is closed for business. From The O: Gary and Signe Lawrence, owners of three Oregon art galleries, have closed their Pearl District location. Their Lawrence Gallery in Sheridan — their original store opened in 1977 — and the one at Salishan on […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is SPORKLIFT! 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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Cool Art
Hey, it’s not my plain-jane title. “Cool Art” is the name of a new poster art series co-presented by Stand Up Comedy and PICA. You can hit that Cool Art link all you want, but the site doesn’t go live until April 1, the same day that it launches at SUC (811 E Burnside) with […]
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You Design the Mercury Cover: The MEGA Poll!
AS STATED YESTERDAY, Portland artist Andrew Zubko (he of “Batman vs. Shark” fame) has agreed to design a Mercury cover featuring elements decided upon by YOU, the Blogtown reader! In yesterday’s post, we asked you to suggest a subject for the painting, something the subject would hold, and something the subject was either riding, fighting […]
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Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center To Shut Down
This disturbing news just in from one of the city’s most prominent multicultural arts organizations, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC): as of May 1st, the 28-year-old center devoted to promoting diverse artists will shut its doors. Portland Parks sent out an email explaining that the IFCC board made the difficult decision faced with declining […]
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Help Design a Mercury Cover!
Surely you know of Portland artist Andrew Zubko‘s hilarious painting entitled “Batman vs. Shark” that’s taken the internet by storm, yes? Here it is again. Anyway, GET THIS: We’ve commissioned Andrew to create a cover for the Portland Mercury… AND YOU GET TO DECIDE WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE! Andrew will combine three objects into […]
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Corey Arnold
The Templeton Building “arm” of Portland2010 opens this Saturday (for more info about the biennial, go here!). Along with seven other artists, including Melody Owen and Holly Andres, photographer Corey Arnold will show five images taken during a stint as a crewman on the Bering Sea. Corey Arnold Check out Arnold’s website for more. (Arnold […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Squid Vicious! 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!!