Fats Waller and the joys of misbehavin’
September 25, 2023
Broadway Rose Theatre pulls out all the stops on the sizzling revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a celebration of Waller’s music and milieu.
Broadway Rose Theatre pulls out all the stops on the sizzling revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a celebration of Waller’s music and milieu.
The innovative Portland dance company enters a new season in a spirit of collaboration, civic renewal, and fresh ideas.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
News & Notes: A new series of lectures on prominent women artists of the 20th century; The Immigrant Story goes live at The Armory; The –Ism Youth Files kicks off a podcast series.
The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.
The 27th annual Art in the Pearl festival highlights Portland’s Labor Day Weekend. Plus, art around Oregon in Astoria, Eugene, and The Dalles.
Ownership of the longtime Black arts center is transferred, and PassinArt Theatre will become a major decision-maker.
Plus: Washougal Art and Music Festival, PassinArt’s festival of multicultural play readings and films.
New novels by Jan Baross and Keith Scales dive deeply into the comic spirit and its nervous underpinnings in a world where things go wrong.
A Multnomah Arts Center exhibit of work by Black Northwest artists delves into the past to create a celebration of Black creativity in the present.
Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase’s 129-year history.
The City of Portland tells the Regional Arts & Culture Council it’s going to go it alone on arts policy and funding – and it’s taking its money with it.
Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum’s assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an “evening” with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.
Keller Auditorium, which is susceptible to earthquake damage, must be upgraded — or maybe replaced. Also: The elk is finally close to a return, but Abe and Teddy still wait while the city talks.
At Hallie Ford Museum, the Tom Prochaska retrospective “Music for Ghosts” and a revival of works by the late Jim Hibbard traverse the thin line between traditional and contemporary.
As Oregon lawmakers stumble through a long Senate walkout and then rush to finish business, a cultural sector still hurting from Covid shutdowns loses on several fronts.
The Music Critics Association of North America chooses ArtsWatch writers Angela Allen as secretary and James Bash as treasurer.
The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.
The longtime Portland theater figure and Broadway producer wins again, this time for the musical revival of “Parade.”
After a four-month construction shutdown, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education reopens with new shows, a new gallery, and a celebratory street fair.
A celebration of the theater leader’s life is June 19; Oregon immigrant stories move to Hillsboro; small grants help bring 16 Latino art projects to life.
Also: Japanese American Museum’s new leader, springtime for taxes (and donations), sprucing up the libraries.
For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center’s fresh start.
The eighth annual Vanport Mosaic Festival, remembering the flood and its legacy, begins. Also: Schnitzer Hall gets too hot to handle; Carlos Kalmar is investigated.
Oregon Children’s Theatre’s “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” spins a visually sumptuous fantasy from Chinese folklore.
Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.
The artistic director of the embattled Oregon Shakespeare Festival departs as the company is in the midst of an emergency fund drive to keep its season going.
Check the shelves: It’s Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, “The Judy” opens its doors.
A day set aside for action on global environmental issues is also, on a smaller scale, a day to celebrate indie record shops.
The Portland painter, 70, leaves a legacy of vibrant work ranging from fairy tales to feminism to the grand, unsolvable mysteries of life.
A week before opening night, the Ashland festival puts out a plea for $2.5 million to “save our season.”
The Portland photographer’s images and stories about survivors of genocidal wars open at U.N. headquarters in New York. Plus: Brenda Mallory at the Heard, Cynthia Lahti at the movies.
“Our Creative Future,” a two-year, broad-based planning effort, seeks to set the tone for the growth and stability of the region’s arts culture over the next 10 years.
The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.
The world’s oldest performing drag queen, who has died at 92, spent decades helping Portland smile, open up a little, and just grow up.
The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.
New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
The Portland artist and activist is the winner of this year’s Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship. Also: a master painter and calligrapher at the Portland Chinatown Museum.
Legislators and cultural figures gather at Salem’s Elsinore Theatre to launch the Legislature’s new Oregon Arts and Culture Caucus.
Remembering Chapman, the legendary Portland theater costume designer, and Holden, who was a cofounder of CoHo Theatre.
Snow? Yes, that event might be canceled. A new future for a troubled public square. Converge 45 names ’23 artists. Mattaliano on the operatic life.
As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon’s Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.
Choreographer Danielle Rowe is named Oregon Ballet Theatre’s new artistic director; interim leader Peter Franc stays as artistic consultant.
Barbara Sellers-Young’s book “Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story” tells a tale of the state’s artists as leaders in environmental awareness.
Oregon loses compelling voices in theater, comedy, fiction, and photography. An appreciation of four who made a difference.
In the Portland writer’s new novel “Painting Through the Dark,” a young Irish artist fights for liberation in California.
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
David McCarthy’s book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.
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.
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