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How Do You Take an Uninteresting Photo?
pic.twitter.com/uxRR6p4Ap3— Uninteresting Photographs (@UninterestingP4) December 1, 2019 Thanks to smartphones and apps like Instagram, we are more attuned, visually, to our world than ever before. We constantly upload pictures and videos of ourselves to our “stories” for everyone to see. And they must be interesting. Selfies, inspirational pics, beautiful landscapes, self-aggrandizing #SpotifyWrapped screenshots, mouthwatering snaps […]
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Portland Art Museum’s Hank Willis Thomas Retrospective Invokes Black Joy: The Strongest Force In the Universe
“Crossroads,” 2012. Chromogenic print, plexiglas, and Lumisty film © HANK WILLIS THOMAS During a boozy opening night dialogue with Danielle McCoy and Ragen Fykes of Wieden+Kennedy, and assistant professor Dr. Derrais Carter from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Carter asked conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas how he got someone to give themselves a Nike […]
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Portland Art Museum’s Hank Willis Thomas Retrospective Invokes Black Joy: The Strongest Force In the Universe
This is the first survey of Thomas’ work and the biggest Portland Art Museum show in years.
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Beacon Sound Is Opening Its Own Store, While Planned Partner Nationale Continues with East Burnside Location
Earlier this year, it was reported that North Mississippi record store Beacon Sound was joining forces with the Nationale art gallery for a joint storefront at the intersection of East Burnside and 22nd. Beacon Sound’s Andrew Neerman and Nationale’s May Burruel announced this week that their joint venture won’t be going forward as planned. Instead, […]
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Introducing Try Harder PDX: Portland’s Only Serious Art Blog?
Mercury Staff Last fall the anonymously written Try Harder PDX, a website (tryharderpdx.com) claiming to be “Portland’s only serious source for art criticism,” surfaced online. The pieces on the review blog bounced from brainy walkthroughs of shows to surprisingly detailed criticisms of local nonprofits, schools, and galleries. The writing, though sometimes incendiary, became an immediate […]
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Introducing Try Harder PDX: Portland’s Only Serious Art Blog?
We interviewed Portland’s most incendiary arts critic whose opinion everyone relentlessly craves.
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Disjecta’s Portland 2019 Biennial: Where to Start
Altar by Lynn Yarne LYNN YARNE The fifth edition of Disjecta’s Portland Biennial is both a narrowing and an expansion of the exhibition’s original vision. The Biennial is a curated survey of Oregon contemporary artists that takes place every two years. But for the first time since Disjecta started organizing these regular events, all the […]
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Disjecta’s Portland 2019 Biennial: North Interstate Love Song
The majority of the planned events for Disjecta’s 2019 Portland Biennial will be featured in or around Disjecta’s gallery on North Interstate, rather than scattered across the city or—as with their ambitious 2016 edition—the state.
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Pickathon Comics Day 3: Jenny Vu’s Comic “Pickathon as a First Timer”
The Mercury sent four comics artists to Pickathon this year to make comics about the festival. Look for a new comic every day this week! We profiled prolific comics artist, performance artist, and illustrator Jenny Vu in our 2018 Fall Arts Guide, and her work was such a hit that her comics became a regular […]
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Pickathon Comics Day 2: Cameron Hawkey Draws Pickathon Scenes
The Mercury sent four comics artists to Pickathon this year to make comics about the festival. Look for a new comic every day this week! Cameron Hawkey is a Portland visual artist who makes comics, paintings, illustrations, and many more interesting objects (his 2018 show The Home Builder and The Corporation involved Jacquard weavings!). Sit […]
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Warren Kanders Finally Resigns From Board of the Whitney Museum
Allison Kanders and Warren Kanders attend 2012 Whitney Gala Getty Images / Ben Gabbe / Stringer After months of protests and artists withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial as part of an organized boycott, Warren Kanders, the owner of weapons manufacturer Safariland, has finally stepped down from the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum […]