ArtsWatch Weekly: a squeeze, a shuffle, a Fertile sprawl
Bob Hicks
January 30, 2020
Space squeeze, RACC reshuffle, Fertile Ground fever, nudes & Federales: a busy week.
Space squeeze, RACC reshuffle, Fertile Ground fever, nudes & Federales: a busy week.
Fresh voices, surprising ideas emerge at Fertile Ground – and the theater week stays busy elsewhere, too.
An Astoria show celebrates a universal: “We all necessarily inhabit our own bodies.”
Normally we like to contain all our monthly previews in one tidy column. But since February starts this weekend, we’d like to tell you all about the first stretch of Februarial concerts now–and we’ll tell you about the rest of the month
Patrick Collier offers ways to understand David Eckard’s sculptures now on view at the North View Gallery
Portland’s festival of new works is a blur of hopeful creativity. Media night gives a hint of the pandemonium.
Broadway Rose’s “Up and Away” is an affectionate yet subversive musical superhero parody.
Regional Arts & Culture Council shifts its focus to fundraising, advocacy, outreach. One result: 15 layoffs, 15 new positions.
It’s Sunday night and I’m at New Expressive Works, watching a few minutes of tech rehearsal for the upcoming Listening to Silence, a dance performance co-created by NEW founder and executive director Subashini Ganesan and Yashaswini Raghuram, the assistant director of Odissi
As rapid development tightens the real estate market in Portland’s core, arts groups try to play the game.
A showcase of student dancers highlights the talent and promise of a new generation.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
Tonight, tonight, tonight! Your busy music editor has to miss a bunch of cool stuff tonight, dear reader: I’ll be schlepping gongs and playing reyong with Gamelan Wahyu Dari Langit, opening for Wet Fruit at Mississippi Studios. If you followed our adventures
A fundraiser auctions a Rick Bartow sketch and the 14th annual “Au Naturel” show opens in Astoria.
Longtime patron Arlene Schnitzer makes a major donation to help fund the Rothko Pavilion.
At a North Portland school, a music lover and BRAVO music students meet and learn in the circle of life.
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo considers the artist’s meditative fiber sculptures made from deconstructed canvases
Gallery shows on glass, Rogue River Wars, and tea service; a play reading; and a native son comes to town.
A visit to see Dorothy Goode’s joyful, merging, overlapping, playful paintings.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony director talks full STEAM ahead about the links among science, education, and the arts.
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