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Trump takes aim at museums, history

As the president rejects funding for art about gender, race, and "anti-American values," historians, museums, and cultural centers across Oregon and the U.S. fight back.

Ghosts of the Flame light up a 5,000 square foot space

In a sprawling industrial space at Portland's Building 5, artist Jennifer Gilla Cutshall creates a vivid installation of beauty with a warning about the imperiled planet.

Interleaving words and music: Third Angle New Music and Kim Stafford at the World Forestry Center

The Portland music group and the former Oregon Poet Laureate presented a concert featuring music by Dai Fujikara, Quinn Mason, Caroline Shaw and a world premiere composed by 3A violist Wendy Richman.

Hallie Ford Museum: Touring collection of works by African American artists has humble, inspiring roots

"Memories & Inspirations: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art" started when an Atlanta postal carrier wanted a painting for his home.

ArtsWatch Insider: Look how much we’ve grown

A remarkable transformation occurs when a collective community nurtures a garden of hope.

Review: NW Dance Project dancers impress in Carmen+, the classic tale with a twist

The world premiere of Caroline Finn's "Don't Forget to Panic" and the return of Ihsan Rustem's "Carmen" with original stars Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto create a pleasurably riveting evening.

Is Portland a war-ravaged hellscape? Portland Book Festival attendees weigh in

“Safe,” “welcoming,” and “awesome” are a few words Portlanders and visitors alike used to describe downtown.

Portland Book Festival: Stacey Abrams, Susan Orlean on the perils, pitfalls, and joys of writing

Melissa Febos and Lidia Yuknavitch also spoke at this year’s festival on their career successes and how they overcame bumps along the way.

Portland Book Festival had it all: Rebecca Yarros, Nicholas Boggs, Omar El Akkad, Karen Russell, Jason De León, and Megha Majumdar

Saturday's sold-out festival had something for everyone, from romantasy to biography, plus National Book Award winners and finalists.

Portland Book Festival: A day stretching from comedy to self-discovery

One writer's day at the festival included hearing from Jess Walter, Kristen Arnett, Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Perrine, and Tara Roberts.

Honoring the past, investing in a future in Indigenous art

At an open house and marketplace at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's museum, artists weave a story that carries traditional skills and values into the modern world.

Photo First: Authors, authors, everywhere

As the Portland Book Festival and its visiting writers move into high gear, photographer K.B. Dixon portrays 15 homegrown winners of Oregon Book Awards.

Oregon gets a new Arts and Culture Director

Amy Lewin will oversee the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust, and will be a part of Business Oregon's leadership team.

Thinking about The Big Re/Think

Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.

Something witty this way comes

Ashland to host its first-ever Sarcasm Festival Dec. 5–7 as a host of comedians converge on Shakespeare territory and aim for audiences' funny bones.

Portland Book Festival: Susan Orlean on a ‘Joyride’ of journalism and storytelling

The former Portlander's new book is both a memoir and a tutorial on the craft of writing.

FilmWatch Weekly: Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die, My Love,’ Sydney Sweeney in ‘Christy,’ Predators in ‘Predator: Badlands,’ and more

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, Lynne Ramsay's first feature film since 2017 depicts a woman's frenzied descent into psychosis.

MusicWatch Monthly: Betterment of self or world

In which we consider the problem of “overproduction of cultural goods” in the context of encouraging you to touch grass with Portugal. The Man, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Nasalrod, Madeline Ross, Oregon East Symphony, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Wonderly, and the Low Bar Chorale.

A sense of fragrance and bloom: Trio Afiori and composer Alex Ho

An interview with the British-Chinese composer — commissioned by the recently formed trio of pianist Gloria Chien, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron — ahead of the trio's upcoming Chamber Music Northwest concert.

‘Live Wire’ launches emergency fund drive

The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.

In book tour for ‘107 Days,’ Kamala Harris says she wanted to ‘lift the hood’ on presidential campaigns

In a nearly sold-out Portland event, Harris tells the audience, “Our democracy relies on our willingness to fight for it.”

Ten Fifteen Productions: The Astoria theater company that doesn’t shy from the controversial

The theme of the community theater’s next season is “America the Beautiful?” And, yes, the question mark is intentional.

‘Madonna of the Cat’: Everyday emotions, abandoned child, and, oh – a talking bear 

Review: The world premiere at 21ten Theatre of Sue Mach’s play filling in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" uses fantasy and whimsy to explore real-life woes.

The Sonics of Community: A conversation with Friends After Good Sound

Friends After Good Sound are a newcomer to Portland’s experimental music scene. They are a collective of young, queer composers and performers that exclusively play works composed for them by…

VizArts Monthly: Exuberance

November may be short on daylight but it is full of bright and joyful art exhibits and events including the grand opening of Portland Art Museum's Rothko Pavilion.

Third Rail Rep: Back to the beginning

As it enters its 20th season, the company brings back its very first show, Craig Wright's "Recent Tragic Events," for another go-around with original director Scott Yarbrough.

Portland parks levy passes with reduced support

Despite opposition based partly on a higher tax rate and a critical city audit, the measure passes, guaranteeing open parks and parks-run arts programs.

Portland Book Festival: Reginald Dwayne Betts’ ‘Doggerel’ transforms his life into poetry

The founder of Freedom Reads, a nonprofit that puts libraries in prisons, says "sometimes one book will change your life.”

Portland Book Festival: Poems in Mai Der Vang’s ‘Primordial’ amplify the human via a rare animal

Vang uses the saola — a gazelle-like creature hunted for eons by the Laotian Hmong — to braid strands of history, memory, ecology, and hope.

2025 Bend Film Festival: A cinematic cornucopia over five days features Oscar candidates, copious shorts, Indigenous stories, and more

Oregon's most prominent film festival returned for its 22nd year with panel discussions, social events, and more than 100 movies from around the globe.