Live shows & Hunter Biden’s art
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
Nicolas Cage amid the truffles; Anthony Bourdain for real; Isabelle Huppert in a darkly comic tale.
1122 Outside may be the perfect post-pandemic panacea. It is a venue for showing art but equally an artist-centered, anti-capitalist community space.
The story of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams and Portland photographer Stu Levy.
Art Beyond, organized by the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, invites viewers to venture out of the gallery and into the beyond.
Stage & Studio: The NY Times best-selling author talks about her Portland roots and Mixed-Race identity.
Nehalem resident Paul Letersky’s new book describes working for “the greatest bureaucrat of all time.”
A singer grapples with Alzheimer’s in the new chamber opera “A Song by Mahler” at Chamber Music Northwest.
A California pianist and activist brings music and an urgent sense of the present to the Oregon Bach Festival.
With their art gallery space on the market, owners are moving the business to Florence’s bayfront.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state’s art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
Third Angle moves out of the dark days with Sunday’s Fresh Air Fest on a Sauvie Island farm.
On an overcast morning last March, Dr. Lisa Neher took to the streets of Tigard to film a short opera she had composed called Momentum.
As the movie world opens up, a couple of made-for-big-screen features wind up on home screens instead.
Five birdhouse-like boxes in Manzanita prove that good things do indeed come in small packages.
Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres’s “Color Burn” at Well Well Projects celebrates maximalism and artificiality.
In a time of cultural and climate meltdown, are literary artists predicting the history of what’s to come?
Colorful banners hanging from downtown lamp posts are the Alsea Bay Center for the Arts’ first project.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
In the opening remarks at last week’s Makrokosmos festival, pianist and co-Artistic-Director Saar Ahuvia said, “live music is finally back.” That is true, with an asterisk.
Oregon’s literary scene sails through the heat with open mics, workshops, and virtual author readings.
July’s art offerings provide plenty of opportunities to beat the heat and see art in alternative spaces.
The revival of a landmark 1969 Harlem music festival is a brilliant cultural and artistic feat; theaters reopen doors.
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.
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