Colorful banners with hopeful messages for anxious times
Lindsay Costello
October 30, 2020
A collaborative community project from the Living School of Art on display at Nationale.
A collaborative community project from the Living School of Art on display at Nationale.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A different kind of orchestra, weekend of horrors, board moves, statues, farewells & flicks.
In his final days, designer and artist Tim Stapleton hosted a free flow of friends. Now, his final artwork is on view.
The fundraiser for arts education includes work by artists in Newport’s sister city of Mombetsu, Japan.
A monument on Mt. Tabor to pioneering editor Harvey Scott was toppled. Is it worth putting back up?
A riveting documentary tells the tale of an orchestra of musicians with mental illness — and a Portland affiliate.
As the quaran-time slowly unspools, movies are moving to a small screen near you, including “Martin Eden” and Alex Gibney’s take on our coronavirus fumble.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Book Fest goes virtual; art all around; dance on film; October musical surprise.
Living composers, ghost composers, cloned string quartets, and a virtual songspiel
The pandemic has accelerated the movement of dance toward film, where more people can see it.
Sculptor Sam Briseño’s last works are available, and the city’s exhibition space prepares to welcome visitors again.
The Portland actor-writer moves briskly into his tale of Black Americans and the violence they face.
The Watercolor Society of Oregon’s show in Newberg debunks stereotypes about the medium.
A Portland artist and his iPhone camera create a complex portrait of a city in flux.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A culture clash over the past; a museum reopens; photos, films, books & sounds.
The last six months have left us starved for live music, with the country kinda-but-not-really shutting down to handle the pandemic. Luckily for us, a cohort of young singers took it upon themselves to stage the first full opera production in Oregon since March.
Portland police killed Quanice Hayes. His grandmother’s film gives back his voice and 8 other police victims’.
Shining through: Astoria’s LightBox Photographic Gallery is a bright beacon in dark times.
The owner of Cloud & Leaf in Manzanita discusses what it’s like running a bookstore during a pandemic.
At least 5 sculptures have been pulled down or removed in Portland in recent months. What should we do with them?
Organizers are coming up with two scenarios for February, and a virtual fundraiser this weekend will feature greatest hits.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Backstage love, Lynn Nottage by ear, art all over, elk & otters & deep dark woods.
Barry Johnson starts with a beloved statue and then follows it and a New York Review of Books article all the way to Confederate monuments and buttons.
Bob Keefer embraces an unusual art-making process befitting his unusual pathway to becoming an artist.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
At Broadway Rose, a musical romantic comedy is streaming – and the stars sign on for the long run.
After a pandemic hiatus, VizArts Monthly is back! Lindsay Costello with shows to see, both virtually and in person, in October.
The creators: Ten portraits by K.B. Dixon of artists who are defining what Portland and the state look like.
ArtsWatch Weekly: How we shift as the culture shifts. Plus smoke on the water, money, theater, music, art, dance.
Dance starts to heat up after a slow pandemic summer. Jamuna Chiarini collects the fall colors for you.
Critic Paul Sutinen considers Tad Savinar’s newest show of political provocations. They aren’t always what you think.
Digital roundup: powerful electronic pop, future folk birthday celebration, live sounds from one of the city’s best experimental artists.
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