Greg Berman explores recovery through the eyes of Newport artist Rick Bartow
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.
The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell’Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.
A fresh exhibit of the late Oregon artist’s multifaceted work suggests the many masks and guises that create identity.
Fourteen years ago, I was reporting a news story when I encountered a man weed-whacking. His back was turned and he wore a headset meant to protect his hearing. Few things are more awkward — and possibly risky — than approaching a
Photos by JOE CANTRELL A collection of seventeen drawings by the late Oregon artist Rick Bartow, From the Heart: Author Drawings by Rick Bartow, is on view through September 29 in the Upstairs Gallery of the Newport Visual Arts Center, and it
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
A fundraiser auctions a Rick Bartow sketch and the 14th annual “Au Naturel” show opens in Astoria.
Katherine Ace, Yaki Bergman, Margaret Chapman, Walt Curtis, Darcelle, Cai Emmons, Michael Griggs, Donald Jenkins, Henk Pander and more: Oregon arts figures who died in 2023.
From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.
As the theater season shifts into high gear, Center Stage’s “Hair” marches to the beat of 1968’s drum and a host of other shows hit the stage.
Art education teacher Cibyl E. Kavan draws on her imagination, current events, and her wide-ranging knowledge of fellow artists to light the creative sparks in her young students.
The Native American painter and mixed media artist, who draws inspiration from his father and uncle, has a show opening Friday in the Newport Visual Arts Center.
April pushes us further into spring and there’s plenty of art to see all over the state. VizArts Monthly has recommendations for everything from paintings to recycled fabrics to suspended plant matter.
The 35-year-old building, along with the nearby Visual Arts Center, has helped transform the Nye Beach neighborhood from “poverty gulch” into an arts community.
Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, named for the artist and teacher, is a hub for students and showcase for exhibits that draw visitors from throughout the Northwest.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
In “Celilo, Never Silenced,” the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton’s new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
In a gallerist’s anti-vaxx crusade and shaming of a Jewish museum, Jennifer Rabin writes, the systems of power reinforce themselves.
A Tuesday ribbon-cutting sets the stage for art and performance at the new, $55 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
Sebastian Zinn reviews Storm Tharp and Grace Kook-Anderson’s exhibition of Northwest portraits from PAM’s permanent collection.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
ArtsWatch Weekly: All around Oregon, the cultural Covid freeze of 2020 begins to thaw. Will it continue?
Photographer/writer K.B. Dixon profiles leading gallery owners Martha Lee, Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Backstage love, Lynn Nottage by ear, art all over, elk & otters & deep dark woods.
ArtsWatch Weekly: E.M. Lewis’s Antarctic tale “Magellanica” takes to the airwaves; $25 million+ for arts relief.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As we enter an uncertain future, new art is in the making – and old art shifts with the times.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art gives Portland a new center for contemporary art – and it’s free.
If there was any doubt the new exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium was a success, one only had to listen last weekend as visitors discovered Seapunk: Powered by Imagination. “This is awesome,” said one. “This is so cool,” said another. And
The visual arts stories at ArtsWatch this year ranged far and wide and – as usual – didn’t even come close to covering all that went on in the world of Oregon art. While some may see that as a failure, we
Organizers can smile about it now, but 10 years ago, few involved in the fledgling Nye Beach Banner Project saw the humor. It all came down to one banner, the work of Rowan Lehrman. The front featured a topless woman painted in
This seems to be the season for kids and art — a topic that naturally came up earlier this month when the Newport Performing Arts Center celebrated its 30th anniversary. Talk of old times (and new) called to mind for many all
On a recent Saturday afternoon I dropped in to the Portland Art Museum and immediately encountered a crowd at the entrance, lined up waiting to get in. That’s odd, I thought. Nice, but odd. Then I heard a bit of chatter in
As a journalist, I’ve had the privilege of working with some amazing photographers, pros who could take what I saw as a simple, even uninspiring, scene and render it into a work of pure art — often in the most fleeting of
Give to our GROW FUND.