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.
Newport’s Juergen Eckstein — painter, sculptor, and community presence — died Oct. 31.
An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
As Lou Harrison said, music is basically a song and a dance. Welcome to a week of it.
Sebastian Zinn considers Hare’s work, approach to portraiture, and award in the prestigious Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Nexus Vocal Ensemble brings impressive technique and spiritual power to Shaw, Buxtehude, and Barnwell.
Robert Swinston talks about restaging two of Merce Cunningham’s masterworks of the ’90s, “BIPED” and “Beach Birds.”
Evan Lewis considers OJMCHE’s exhibition of artifacts from the career of a musical legend
Amy Leona Havin draws on her Israeli dance roots for “mekudeshet,” a dance about how we make things sacred
Work begins on the $51 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a long-held dream for the city’s center-in-the-making.
A new concert series dedicated to bringing world-class musicians and composers to southern Oregon with the purpose of musicially addressing challenging social issues was inaugurated this October when Anima Mundi Productions co-founders, composer Ethan Gans-Morse and poet Tiziana DellaRovere, launched The Heart
There are a handful of things that make a city’s musical culture feel complete. You need several symphony orchestras and large choirs, and they all have to be pretty damn good. You also need several smaller choral and instrumental ensembles overlapping with
Gallery owner Jennifer DeCarlo talks about moving from artist to art dealer, art fairs, and the place of visual art.
As Ilana Sol’s new film about war and reconciliation screens this week, a look back at the Portland filmmaker’s first documentary
This drama of working-class life is difficult and ambitious — and Linfield College’s production will leave you gobsmacked.
FearNoMusic commemorates the Portland murder of immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by white supremacists.
A unique sense of color highlights a photographic journey to the world’s second most populous nation.
The world premiere of POWER in July of 2019 was an evening-length work, yet Reggie Wilson was generous enough with his energy to give a post-show interview after the second performance. When asked how he envisioned the world that the piece so
Some thoughts on theater etiquette, on ideas about race and cultural preference, and on what shows to see this week in Portland.
A Mozart Players concert explores music by living composers—and raises questions of preparation and appropriated meaning.
Portland Book Fest turns the page, downtown gets a new museum, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like … already?
What’s up? Big bands, big choirs, chamber classical, and hybrid music from Indonesia and the British Isles.
A dancer’s injury at BodyVox leads to a cascade of role changes in the company’s Shakespeare double bill.
A round-up of Portland-area gallery offerings in November.
Adleane Hunter directs Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of identity, economics, and race.
It’s quiet at the beach, but there’s still plays to watch, photos to see, poetry to hear and banners to bid on.
Katie Taylor previews this edition of Saturday’s Portland Book Festival, with its nine stages and more than 100 authors.
Portland Opera’s “Butterfly” has melody, familiarity, and style. But does it surprise?
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art gives Portland a new center for contemporary art – and it’s free.
At the Portland Art Museum, a lively and well-adorned crowd celebrates Mexico’s Día de Muertos.
Our most excellent wrap of November music classical, new, jazzy, and hybrids in between.
Romance, race, genealogy clash in “Redwood” at Portland Center Stage; weekly tips on Portland theater.
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