Virtual and vital: Strike up the band
Brett Campbell
May 28, 2020
The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra gets savvy and shows that shutdown doesn’t have to mean shut up.
The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra gets savvy and shows that shutdown doesn’t have to mean shut up.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In spite of a museum shutdown, a Southern Oregon showcase of student art finds a way.
Art by the late Juergen Eckstein is included in an online sale and show at the Newport Visual Arts Center.
Katy Abraham, Stirling Gorsuch, and Aimée Brewer talk about their nature-inspired art and Instagram accounts.
The Portland drummer and composer’s diverse projects embrace his expansive creative mentality.
How you hear Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata can depend on the instrument it’s played on.
Portland’s visual history looks to expand; grants for artists; Chinatown Museum reschedules exhibitions .
A conversation on a train takes a ride into Portland racial history and one woman’s life of beauty and elegance.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Rose Festival, Actor’s Nightmares, down in the Goon Docks, starting over, and more.
In which we lament Geter’s Requiem, remember Menomena, and set Kevin down on the PDX Couch.
Sebastian Zinn explores the multifaceted work of the artist and musician Chaz Bear.
Astoria dials back the 35th-anniversary celebration of the cult classic, but fans will still find ways to fete the film.
As theaters go dark, actors’ tales on “The Actor’s Nightmare” of real-life stage disasters seem a perfect antidote.
Where is the culture now? Culture critic and philosopher Raymond Williams has ideas we can use to figure it out.
This year’s big bash is gone with the pandemic wind. As a scaled-back virtual fest begins, an ode to the way it was.
As schools shut down, arts teachers in Lane County shift online and take the art to kids across 16 districts.
Artist/critic Patrick Collier has profound doubts about our ability to build something better out of this pandemic.
We’re toggling between extremes: mass digital socialization and truly next-level hermit action.
Sebastian Zinn reports on Dana Lynn Louis’s latest art installation in Portland.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As the world turns, will real reality replace virtual reality?
Feeling down? Think local: Recent recordings by Oregon composers offer sonic solace in troubled times.
Voices from the front: Members of the coastal arts community talk about how the pandemic has changed them.
A photographer talks to himself about shadows and the mysteries of black & white.
Portland’s Saturday Market helped Aleksandra Apocalisse turn a passion for art into a career
A Portland artist hopes we come out of lockdown with a better sense of what’s important and the problems we cause.
Oregon musical performances may be suspended, but Oregon music plays on. Oregon classical musicians aren’t letting a little thing like a deadly pandemic and total cancellation of live performances stop them from bringing the sounds. Tonight, Friday May 8, at 10 pm,
The Portland actor and architect steps up to a bigger stage: The race to become the city’s next mayor.
The Portland Art Museum’s curator of Northwest art talks about curating during a pandemic.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Vanport Mosaic goes virtual, bringing the the great flood of ’48 into modern Portland.
The Tony-winning Oregon and Broadway producer looks to streaming and music in a new joint venture.
Sue Neuer of Cannon Beach finds casting a play in the current climate has its challenges.
As we isolate ourselves, photographer K.B. Dixon finds beauty in the splendid solitude of ordinary things.
Messy, sensual, sexual, intoxicating and comforting, food – like art – should dance in your memory.
Strikes, unions, mega-corporations and the unpaid labors of love (with a tip of the hat to Bandcamp).
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