Broaden Your Horizons: Art Offerings Outside the City Limits
City saturated? These six arts organizations and venues outside the Portland area will have you thinking twice about staying put all winter.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Nov 19–22
SNL's Tim Meadows, Melissa Etheridge, AND the very jazzy Hugh Masakela! Plus, we go "wild" at an art auction, step up for Riverdance, and get handsy at a puppet slam.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Nov 25–29
Storm Large's Holiday Ordeal, Bag&Baggage's 1940s "radio massacre," Blitzen Trapper, RAC, and Ian Karmel, plus Dirty Revival at the Doug Fir while drones take over the Clinton.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Dec 5–8
Viva's eye-popping opera (and more fine holiday shows), Modest Mouse and the Portland Cello Project, Live Wire with John Hodgman, and a comic book full of BEER! Our stocking—er, weekend—is officially...
View Article7 Local Gifts for the Arts Aficionado
Books, tickets, records, and art! We've got all you need for the culture buff in your life.
View ArticleThe Art of Miroslav Lovric
By day, Miroslav Lovric is a security guard at the Portland Art Museum; by night, he’s a painter inspired by the masters he guards. See some of the work in his "Soul Catchers" series in our slideshow.
View ArticleMeet the Bosnian Artist Who Watches Over Portland’s Most Valuable Art Trove
By day, Miroslav Lovric is a security guard at the Portland Art Museum; by night, he’s a painter inspired by the masters he guards.
View ArticleHow SE 82nd Avenue Became One Portland Artist's Muse
It's not a Tuscan wheat field nor a lily pond, but SE 82nd still inspired artist Shawn Demarest's latest exhibition, EastSouthEast: Merge, on show until the month's end at PCC's Southeast Student...
View ArticleThe Art Gallery Inside a Ford Bronco
Why two Portland artists built a mobile gallery in a classic American car.
View ArticleTop Things to Do This Weekend: Dec 31–Jan 3
Kick out the old, ring in the new—there are plenty of ways to celebrate the dawning of 2016 this weekend. Calexico, comedy king Greg Fitzsimmons, and conga-dancing polar bears—go crazy, PDX!
View ArticleWhat 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.
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