What’s going on in there? Photo courtesy of Another Believer I’ve been meaning to post this for a few days and keep waiting until I have time to follow with some reporting of my own. But I haven’t had time and I think you should know about this news about Portland’s Pacific Northwest College of […]
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At This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the Stakes Will Be Higher
Duty Free Dylan Mira “The stakes are a lot higher in a space that we want to be able to welcome people into,” says Erin Boberg Doughton, performing arts program director for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Ahead of PICA’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA), which kicks off September 8, Boberg Doughton and […]
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Fall Arts & Culture Guide
It’s Peak Art Season in Portland. Here’s Your Game Plan.
It’s peak art season in Portland. Here’s your game plan.
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PICA Puts Down Roots
At This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the Stakes Are Higher
At this year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the stakes are higher.
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Flora’s Analog Perfection
Land Gallery’s All-Women, Lo-Tech Art Show Is Everything
Land Gallery’s all-women, lo-tech art show is everything.
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Study Group Magazine Applies a Critical Lens to Comics
The latest issue has a Dungeons & Dragons adventure theme and tons of stand-alone fantasy art. LEVON JIHANIAN | FLOATING WORLD INTERIOR SPACE (BACKGROUND) What do you put in a magazine without advertisements? Fantasy adventure art, obviously. It’s been two years since the release of Study Group Magazine #3, in all of its red-and-blue line, […]
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Yale Union’s End of Summer Residency Program Bridges Portland and Japan
Sayaka Ohata @ENDOFSUMMER (INSTAGRAM) Though you might not know it, August will be a very engaging month for international contemporary art in Portland. A brand-new residency program called End of Summer has begun, presenting a month-long occasion for Japan and Portland to connect over a shared interest in contemporary art. This month, Yale Union will […]
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Project Art: End of Summer Edition
The Residency Program Bridges Portland and Japan
The residency program bridges Portland and Japan.
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Bruce Nauman’s Humor and Meaning
Language Body: An Evocative Glimpse into the Artist’s Expansive Career
Language Body: An evocative glimpse into the artist’s expansive career.
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A Look at Muscle Beach, One of the Portland2016 Biennial’s Only Venues Inside a Garage
<img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/original/18368597/1468434675-visarts2-musclebeach-by-lisaradon.jpg" alt=" Lisa Radon’s exhibition at Muscle Beach presents the rare opportunity to see work from an established artist in a genuinely alternative setting. Lisa Radon As a regional event, Disjecta’s Portland2016 Biennial, a multi-venue, many-month happening, could serve to refocus attention on the breadth of artists who live and work in Oregon. But […]
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In Cat Del Buono’s Voices, the Video Artist Documents the Reach of Domestic Violence
Wall-mounted videos of women’s mouths screen in four neat rows, as their voices, all heard at once, build into an indistinguishable blur. Cat Del Buono This week, of all weeks, it feels almost irresponsible to suggest that anyone attend an emotionally loaded art show. So if your emotional bandwidth is spent, if the last thing […]
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Cat Del Buono’s Art of Witness
In Voices, the Video Artist Documents the Reach of Domestic Violence
In Voices, the video artist documents the reach of domestic violence.