2021: Remembering those who died
Bob Hicks
December 31, 2021
From children’s writer Beverly Cleary to jazz star Carlton Jackson to actor Philip Cuomo and more, we say farewell to artists who died in 2021.
From children’s writer Beverly Cleary to jazz star Carlton Jackson to actor Philip Cuomo and more, we say farewell to artists who died in 2021.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
From dance on film at the start of the year to a flurry of Nutcrackers at the end, the ups and downs of Oregon’s Covid-tinged dance year.
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
Looking back at the authors we lost and the bookish events that cheered us this year.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her newest podcast with ArtsWatch’s Bob Hicks, Steph Littlebird, Brett Campbell, and Amy Leona Havin about the highs, lows, and landmarks of the cultural year.
The Portland poet sees his classroom role as more coach than teacher: “I am very good at pumping people up, listening, and helping them execute their vision…. I’m not hitting people with maxims to live by.”
Celebrating artists in Oregon whose visions stood out and helped define and rethink a precarious year.
From “The Lost Daughter” to “Memoria,” Marc Mohan picks his top movies – “some legitimately great” – of the year.
Joan Didion, acclaimed writer revered for her captivating prose and era-specific essays, both outlined and shaped a nation. Amy Leona Havin says goodbye to a personal hero.
From Imogen Cunningham to the Brontë sisters to the new NEA chief and more, women take the holiday-season cultural spotlight.
Portlanders reading around town recommend gift books ranging from Clive Barker to classics by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
Looking back with Katherine FitzGibbon on Resonance Ensemble’s year of provocative choral music
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, from Arizona State University, is confirmed as the new leader of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Cygnet Productions’ radio satire of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” streaming through January, pokes feminist fun at the literary classic.
Call it meditation, performance, soundscape, transcendence, dance: Driscoll’s ‘Come On In’ solo exhibit pushes boundaries and challenges traditional definitions of dance performance.
“One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular”: At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.
At the airport, a cultural banner flies high. At the art museum, the Nabis put on a show. At the movies, remakes happen. In Ashland and Newport, art starts over.
Spielberg, Del Toro, and the perils & possibilities of remakes. Plus questions of mortality in a sci-fi flick that sends in the clones.
Artist cooperative Physical Education’s DIY exhibition weaves the history of their collaboration into personal gift shop memorabilia.
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