Amy Dotson brought the CUT team onstage to share name announcement moment. Andrea Lonas Photography / Courtesy of the Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM)’s Northwest Film Center begins a new chapter this week, as it takes on a new name and progresses towards the realization of a vision several years in the […]
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The Bold, Vibrant Colors of Portland’s Spring Gallery Shows Are a Reprieve from Our Hibernal Wintertime Grays
William Matheson, Dissipatio Courtesy of Nationale Whether displayed against the backdrop of the stark realities of our present-day or in a fantastical, surreal abstraction, hope, resilience, and strength are feelings and states of being that are predominant themes in exhibitions this season. Art lovers will have ample choices to stimulate their optical nerves; well-known institutions […]
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What’s Coming up Soon from Our List of 30 Arts Events to Check Out in Portland This Spring?
Courtesy of mitski Spring has sprung, and with it comes an exciting batch of events that will get you cultured and out to enjoy the weather. From the return of the smash hit musical Hamilton to the AAPI-centered film Crouching Comic and from TEDxPortland to Tyler, The Creator, we’ve rounded up 30 of the most […]
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Portland Art Museum Scores a Rare View, Not Just of Frida Kahlo, but the Interconnected History of Mexican Modernism
Diego Rivera, Landscape with Cacti PHOTO BY GERARDO SUTER, COURTESY OF THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM Standing in front of Landscape with Cacti, a massive landscape oil painting that muralist Diego Rivera painted in 1931, feels like standing with friends in happy company—if your friends happen to be five-feet-tall cacti on canvas. They meander over a […]
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City Considers New Placement for Cleaned and Buffed Downtown Elk Statue
Suzette Smith This week, City Commissioner Carmen Rubio’s office announced that the bronze Thompson Elk statue—which formerly stood on a stone pedestal on SW Main—will return downtown. It isn’t a given that the statue will return to its old post, between the Chapman Square and Lownsdale Square parks, as the granite base and octagonal basin […]
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Brett and Moon Westfall See Hope for Humanity in Signs of Life Art & Fashion Exhibition
photo by Andrew Jankowski The strawberries in visual artist and menswear designer Brett Westfall’s signature “Fresh” produce motif are inspired by ten days in 2007 he and a colleague spent stranded in Patterson, California, a rural farming town known for its apricots. Westfall, a friend and collaborator of Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo, studied […]
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Portland Winter Is Coming. Brighten Your Days With These Vibrant Visual Art Experiences
A piece from random [8] by artist Noah Matteucci. Courtesy of Agenda The sun is setting earlier, you’re back to taking a vitamin D supplement, and the Portland Oregon White Stag Sign is donning its festive red nose. The clean slate of the New Year is around the corner. This season, many noteworthy visual art […]
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Arts Festival TBA Ends This Sunday—Don’t Miss These Two Stand-Out Experiences
The Drift is a virtual reality experience and publication is described as “a visual archive of the future.” GARRICK IMATANI WITH TRAVIS STEWART AND THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF GRAND RONDE. This year’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) featured numerous virtual offerings—from video performances to artists’ talks and panels, most of which are available to stream online […]
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Our Favorite Virtual Events at the Time-Based Art Festival, Happening Now
Artist Holland Andrews’ piece for TBA, There You Are, will take place via phone call and text message. Ariel Crocker Opening night of this year’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) felt cautiously optimistic. I have seen art shows during the pandemic, but not a live performance yet. I arrived at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art […]
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St. Johns Camera Shop Blue Moon Keeps Analog Photography Alive in Portland
Courtesy of blue moon Since 2001, Blue Moon Camera & Machine has operated out of a quaint storefront on North Lombard Street in St. John’s. Gilded lettering accents the windows of the sky-colored building, where old cameras from decades past stand atop tripods, a functional museum. I recently had the chance to learn more about […]
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PAM’s Ansel Adams Exhibit Honors, and Challenges, Photographer’s Legacy Through a Contemporary Lens
A display of Adams’ photographs originally published as a 16-print portfolio in 1927—one of the first collections ever to be released in this manner. Sean Bascom Ansel Adams might be the most famous photographer of all time. Even if you don’t know his name, you have likely seen his arresting black and white images of […]