The images, from the collection of photographer Bill Rhoades, run from the New Deal to the present and include work by famous Oregon photographers.
The story of a long-lost Tony Award and how, with a little Oregon help, it finally got replaced. Plus big grants, awards, leadership shifts, and some “Slow Looking” at art.
A pandemic piano acquisition a century in the making: After stops in Chicago, Sioux Falls, a school music room in Tigard & more, it feels like home.
Portland plunges into its festival of new works, and “other” theater from “Gatsby” to “Gloria” lights the lights.
Also this week: An extra-noirish “Nightmare Alley” and a host of good revivals strut their stuff.
Portland metal quintet dwells in the void.
From childhood competitions to her own Lake Oswego Violin studio, Zabenova has pursued a life devoted to playing and teaching.
Portland’s 13th annual festival of new works Jan. 27-Feb. 6 features 37 online projects, from dance to theater to puppetry and more.
The daughter of Stanley Kramer has a film, “NAKUSA,” in next month’s festival.
An award-winning pianist replaces Fazil Say in a crystalline performance of a Ravel concerto.
The acclaimed Portland composer and cellist discusses her creative renaissance
Joel Coen’s movie adaptation is too timid for the tale it tells.
The native Portland choreographer returned to his home town as the pandemic hit. He’s emerged with a fresh vision and three new works at A-WOL.
After a year-and-a-half pandemic shutdown, the community gathering place welcomes the public back with two days of bluegrass and Americana.
Multimedia exhibition captures stories of survivors who fled war, persecution, and genocide to rebuild their lives in Oregon.
January and early February bring a festival filled with dance, and several co-minglings with other art forms.
Playwright Lauren Yee returns to Oregon stages with a Center Stage/Artists Rep collaboration; “Thurgood” and “Hedwig” get ready to roll.
Change in the air: Comings, goings, honors, and landmarks on Oregon’s music scene.
Listening ahead to the region’s upcoming concerts and live streams
Oscar best-foreign-film candidates from Japan’s Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar highlight Portland’s movie week.
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
The artist’s assemblages are products of conscientious sustainability and a longing for a less cluttered and misused world, and express a vague hope for a better outcome.
Boosters envision the town of 2,300 becoming the “arts center of the Central Oregon Coast.”
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
The eminent arts educator and former dean of PSU’s School of Fine and Performing Arts shares his long journey that led back to Portland and imparts his advice for the city’s current arts scene
How to keep yourself and others safe in the theater (we’re in this thing together!). Plus an Agatha Christie, Profile’s “Gloria,” Milagro on Lorca.
In search of an avatar dragon and a very real snow leopard. Plus: Martin Luther King Jr. tributes, Coen Brothers & more.
A fresh exhibit of the late Oregon artist’s multifaceted work suggests the many masks and guises that create identity.
A new all-Latinx comic anthology is the latest from the award-winning Portland independent comics publisher P&M Press.
Loughran, the dance company’s general manager for 20 years, died on Friday from cancer at age 58.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
The multiple Tony-winning musical, in Portland through Sunday, is ‘a small wonder.’ Plus: Poirot at Lakewood, CoHo walks with fire, Fuse postpones.
A two-time Oscar winner for best foreign film looks at the ambiguities of heroism; a “demented Horatio Alger” keeps on trying.
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
Monthly hip-hop showcase enters its eighth year with Prince Hyph, THE DOE FLOW, and The Gard3n
Virtual readings, author conversations, a workshop for beating writer’s block, and a Merry Prankster book release fill the new year’s calendar.
New year, new art! Lindsay Costello has the scoop on January’s art offerings.
The group exhibition in Stelo’s new space on the Park Blocks features works created during two years of the organization’s papermaking and letterpress residencies.
The Indian immigrant turns a lifelong love of music into a career writing scores for the Tamil film industry.
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
On the move: Memoirs by Mark Morris and Carol Rich, Victoria Fortuna’s exploration of dance and violence in Buenos Aires, the legacy of a Russian master.
Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
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