Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. Normally, you’d have one of Bandcamp’s Fee Free First Fridays to look forward to….
Portland Opera’s summer show is fresh and flashy, with sex, angst & art propelling it into contemporary times.
A momentous podcast conversation with the artistic directors of two leading Portland youth companies.
In a Newberg exhibit, Black artists confront racism, as well as speak to the experience of being human.
When Coaster Theatre Playhouse moved shows outdoors, it confronted a new challenge: being heard.
Resident Choreographer Nicolo Fonte also declares he’s leaving the ballet company.
From the symphony to baroque to jazz to Celtic to opera to a legendary luthier, an Oregon all-star team.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, ‘Frida’ at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.
Since the pandemic shutdown, the classical ensemble’s hit the ground running with 50-plus streamed shows.
Multidisciplinary hip-hop artist Old Grape God rolls the pandemic: Since May 2020 he’s released six full-length albums, with a seventh out soon.
Movie music’s in the air with a trio of new releases, from celebrated to fascinating but little-known.
Kathe Todd-Hooker is among artists in a Lincoln City show of tapestries limited to 100 square inches.
Lindsay Costello discovered birds in 2020. Fonda’s paintings speak to her new pastime and pandemic confinement.
Brett Campbell talks with the composer of Portland Opera’s “Frida,”
about the artist’s extraordinary life.
The Oregon Jewish Museum reopens with a deep dive into the story of the fountains that reshaped the city.
Rebecca Martinez and Zi Alikhan talk about life, theater, and becoming national Rising Leaders of Color.
Making magic in Laurelhurst Park with the family-friendly play “Hannah + the Healing Stone.”
ArtsWatch Weekly: Billionaires & struggling artists; the way we look at things; Metallica & the symphony.
Blake Andrews reviews Christopher Rauschenberg’s “India Pushtogethers” exhibit on view at Nine Gallery.
Laurel Reed Pavic reviews “Ansel Adams in Our Time” on view at the Portland Art Museum.
The Lincoln City Cultural Center hopes to ignite excitement for its plaza redevelopment with a concert series.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
The Oregon Symphony’s new artistic leader talks about rage, suffering, authenticity, Mahler, and Metallica.
Dmae Roberts talks with the makers of a new incubator for Black/Queer Theatre, from Fuse and OUTwright.
Yamhill County calendar: Besides the photography show, the summer promises theater, music, poetry.
The Oregon city has an LGBTQIA celebration in the park – and then the religious protesters crash the party.
William Deresiewicz’s new book “The Death of the Artist” shows why it’s so hard to make a living making art today.
Pianist Cary Lewis has a “critical heart incident” in mid-concert, and undergoes emergency surgery.
As the festival enters the home stretch, the brasses come out to play and the tango music does an encore.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony’s new chief; more.
Oh, the horror (and more): As movie houses begin to reopen, a mini-flood of fresh new films arrives.
Charles Rose talks with the Oregon Symphony’s new music director about what’s to come.
“We’re back to where poetry has escaped the book. It’s not in the zoo of the library where it’s looking out through the bars of its cage.”
Tualatin Valley Creates’ Arts & Leadership Incubator helps artists connect their work to the community.
Cygnet presents “Xingu,” an Edith Wharton radio play adaptation full of literature, lies, and laughter.
Bonnie Vorenberg and ArtAge have helped spur a flourishing national scene of theater for older people.
The festival soars past its halfway point with a pair of shows – and violist Charles Noble’s in the middle of the mix.
As this year’s Pride Festival and Parade go (mostly) virtual, we take a pictorial stroll down memory lane.
Portland photographer Richard Brown’s new memoir depicts a colorful life of art and activism.
Saturday concerts draw the committed and curious with brass in the park and woodwinds in Beaverton.
As vaccination rates rise and infection rates fall, Oregon’s music world starts to take to the great outdoors.
An open-air concert lifts spirits with the sounds of Brahms and Strauss and contemporary percussionist Andy Akiho.
The series of free outdoor concerts spotlights Black and contemporary woman composers, and tango, too.
Amy Leona Havin kicks off a new interview series with poet, teacher, illustrator, and long-time poetry activist Leanne Grabel.
Sam Briseño’s welcoming sculpture is undergoing restoration to repair the toll of time and the elements.
Shu-Ju Wang’s art combines her interests in mathematics, her Chinese heritage, and the climate crisis.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.
In a free outdoor show, classical bassist Colin Corner and friends have young fans dancing in a parking lot.
At the movies: A tale of liberation in Saudi Arabia; sizzling on the Riviera; extreme BASE jumping.
Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists. This time around, that includes surprisingly polished folk demos, “rock music?”, propulsive punk for smashing stuff, and plenty more–just in time for Bandcamp’s next Fee Free First Friday.
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