Coast calendar: Here’s to an arty new year
Lori Tobias
December 31, 2019
Art exhibits and author readings are among events getting 2020 off to an inspiring start.
Art exhibits and author readings are among events getting 2020 off to an inspiring start.
DanceWatch Monthly is hoping that Marquee TV will fill the void in performing arts on your devices, whatever they may be.
Martha Daghlian’s monthly roundup of things to see in January
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
Stories keep reinventing Oregon culture and art. Looking back, and peeking ahead to 2020 and beyond.
New Year’s Eve, like Death, is the great equalizer. We all celebrate the solstice-adjacent holidays differently–Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule, Festivus, Hogswatch, and so on–but those of us who follow the Gregorian calendar all come to the end of 2019 at more or less
• Portland Opera has named Sue Dixon the company’s sixth general director, replacing Christopher Mattaliano, who departed in June after 16 years. She’s served the company in other capacities since 2014. PO also temporarily assigned Mattaliano’s artistic direction responsibilities to Palm Beach
In which our coast correspondent learns the secret to publishing a novel is to never, never, never give up.
Stuck in an impeachment funk? Liberace, Liza, and a whole lot of holiday shows to reset the mood.
Treat your ears with modern classical, vintage pop, nouveau prog, Australian psych, and Portland Gothic.
Ten portraits by K.B. Dixon of Oregon writers who are making a mark, with excerpts from their work.
It seems dark and stormy at the end of December, but upcoming events promise a lot of merry and bright.
Excoriated musical Americana lives on with Portland Sacred Harp’s shape note singing convention.
The Portland pop star talks about singing with the Oregon Symphony and making her own oddball musical way.
NW Dance Project’s weekend holiday show, “Winter Wonders,” felt like a sampler plate of grandma’s cookies.
Portland Tuba Christmas makes a mighty sound in Pioneer Courthouse Square, renewing a pleasure we’ve been missing.
It’s year-end donation time. Help us keep the arts clock ticking. Also: Whole lotta holiday shows goin’ on.
Ho ho ho! Oregon First Winter is fully upon us: the snow and ice and seasonal depression haven’t hit in full force yet, but it’s finally cold and rainy enough to talk about holiday music. Let’s get started with an old favorite:
An expansive exhibit at the Getty gets to the grit of the great German modernist’s life and work.
What makes Imago’s critter spectacular such a cool treat? An inside-the-costume source tells all.
Donations to the Oregon Cultural Trust are a painless way to fund the arts. But you have to act by Dec. 31
The revolutionary mission of an innovative program in the schools: to transform learning through the arts.
The week in theater offers more Christmas shows than you can shake a candy cane at!
This week, singer-songwriter-composer Gabriel Kahane arrived in Portland to start his position as Creative Chair for the Oregon Symphony–a job he’ll hold for three seasons, organizing a variety of concerts and working with the beloved hometown orchestra to expand its embrace of
The “Human Involved: The Fifth Annual Sex Workers’ Art Show” turns the tables on a dehumanizing term and allows very human sex worker artists to speak.
Artist Michael Bowley died the week before Thanksgiving. He never sought the spotlight, never showed in a commercial gallery, but Paul Sutinen remembers him vividly.
Hip-hop haven, profiles in gender, museum Loverules, a new opera, un-holiday tunes, gibassiers & more.
Mirror Game, a new opera commissioned by Portland State University’s Opera program, made its world premiere Nov. 29 in PSU’s Lincoln Hall Studio Theater. The opera is an intriguing effort to bring women into the limelight in a male-dominated tech world. The
The Art of Space: Shop La Familia was started by Swiggle Mandela as an outpost for hip hop in a hostile city.
Seattle stages offer a variety of Christmas treats, but the big gifts are Broadway-aspiring musicals such as “Shout Sister Shout!”
Hank Willis Thomas’s retrospective asks us to consider the mechanisms that conspired to make race so we can unmake it in the future.
Bah, humbug! It’s too early for Christmas music, don’t you think? Just because December is upon us, with its flakey promises of snow, doesn’t mean there isn’t a nice pile of early unholiday presents waiting. We’ve got a good dozen or two
Martha Daghlian highlights some worthy December art offerings
Photographer Dee Moore tells the tales of 10 artists (including herself) outside the binary norm.
Several questions haunted this journalist’s mind during a series of fall concerts put on by three of Portland’s most excellent classical groups: Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, and Third Angle New Music. The music was all good, but was often upstaged by
After 23 years the Pearl Bakery’s ovens are shutting down, and a vital slice of Portland’s culture with them.
Several questions haunted this journalist’s mind during a series of fall concerts put on by three of Portland’s most excellent classical groups: Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, and Third Angle New Music. The music was all good, but was often upstaged by
Several questions haunted this journalist’s mind during a series of fall concerts put on by three of Portland’s most excellent classical groups: Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, and Third Angle New Music. The music was all good, but was often upstaged by
Giving, receiving, and digging in to Oregon’s lavish cultural banquet: the arts beat goes on.
“Melancholy Play” is a whimsical reminder that sometimes you feel like a nut. Plus: holiday treats and Portland theater Christmas stuffing.
Asylum Theatre reignites Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This” with intimate staging and palpable emotion.
Giving isn’t just an action but a process, as big as a sea lion and as small as a salmonberry.
December dance in Portland and the rest of the state gets its holiday on, and we’ve got the guide to all those Sugar Plum Fairies.
The Chehalem Cultural Center fills its galleries with masks by Tony Fuemmeler and other artists.
Those of you who just can’t get enough Brahms and Beethoven are lucky: you get to hear those guys all the time on myriad concerts and fresh boxed sets and so on ad apparently infinitum. But if your favorite composer happens to
Charles Burt charts a course from the rigors of military life to the rigors of an art academy.
With a storm of Shakespeare’s words and Sibelius’s music, The Oregon Symphony pairs two twilight artists for a last hurrah.
The week in theater features OSF actors with the Oregon Symphony, sketch comedy, social commentary, and other experiments.
Contemporary classical music composers–whom we might define as “those who look to the classical canon as root”–are frequently self-conscious about the historical and perennial shortcomings of modern art music (“that which seeks to transcend the history of western music”–again, my definition). Hyper
An LGBTQ+ glass art exhibition at the Museum of Glass is a celebration, a memorial, and an unveiling.
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