What Makes Everyday Objects Art?
One Portland art show takes a deep dive into the commonplace to explore relationships, memory transference—and goblets!
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Jan 7–10
Baron Vaughn at the Doug Fir, Miz Kitty in her Parlour, Federale gets spaghetti (western), and First Thursday brings memories of war and Warhol.
View ArticleThe Latest in Portland Arts News—Powell's Expands on Hawthorne
Plus: Portland Art Museum promises Warhol and Rodin, and Pickathon starts the party.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Jan 14–17
Lily Tomlin live! Plus Andy Kindler, Gregory Alan Isakov, the heavy-hitting Nareh Arghamanyan, NW Film's Reel Music, Broadway's Book of Mormon, and openings at Milagro and CoHo.
View ArticleThe "World's Greatest Cat Painting" Is Coming to the Portland Art Museum
Long before the masses shared their cat photos on Facebook, aristocrats commissioned oil paintings.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Jan 28–31
Unknown Mortal Orchestra brings home the Multi-Love, the hilarious Hari Kondabolu calls us names, Mavis Staples hits the screen, and mochi gets made at PSU. Go crazy, Portland.
View ArticlePromises, Promises: Five City Government Candidates on the Arts
Is the arts an election issue? Portland's mayoral and City Council candidates showed their cards on culture at a packed debate on Tuesday.
View ArticleSix Cuban Artists Explore US-Cuba Relations in a New Portland Show
Lewis & Clark’s Hoffman Gallery presents Intersecciones, a re-imagining of Cuba’s relationship with the United States through the mixed-media lens of six of the island’s young artists.
View ArticlePortland's Museum of Contemporary Craft to Close Its Davis Street Doors
The oldest continuously running craft institution in the United States is on the move, finding a new home in the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Feb 4–7
David Cross and Karen Russell, Sabertooth Microfest and awesome openings at PAM and Portland Playhouse. Plus! Check out those nighttime winter lights overhead at OMSI.
View ArticleNew York Artist Jonathan Berger Likens New Exhibit to a Pop Song
Berger’s Adams and Ollman show tells a simple story, through elemental objects placed in a landscape of his own creation.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Feb 11–14
Bill Maher hits the Schnitz, Grace Potter plays the Roseland, and the Symphony does a live-score Star Trek. Plus: vice-riddled tales of Portland and the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. It's the...
View ArticleWant to Help Close Wikipedia's Gender Gap?
Then this Saturday's Edit-a-Thon, calling on Portlanders to join in a "communal updating" of the online encyclopedia's entries on subjects related to art and feminism, is for you.
View ArticlePortland Filmmaker Vanessa Renwick's New Installation Promises an 'Avalanche...
From neutered dogs to ghastly new apartment buildings to melting glaciers, Next Level Fucked Up chronicles the ways humans screw with the world.
View ArticleShooting Time: An Exhibition of Photos from US Prisons Opens in Portland
Pete Brook’s Prison Obscura turns a lens on incarceration in America.
View ArticleWill Portland Be Underwater in 2100?
In Futurelandia, 20 local artists imagine Portland a century from now. .
View ArticlePortlander Matt Hall Collects Dead Animals for Art
It’s not as creepy as you might think.
View ArticleA Portland Start-Up Will Turn Your iPhone Snapshot into Frame-Worthy Art
Whether the picture was worth taking in the first place is still up to you.
View ArticleNative American Fashion Design Shines in a Landmark Exhibit
The Pacific Northwest has a strong presence in the traveling show, on at the Portland Art Museum.
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