The sensitive eye of a radical
David Slader
March 31, 2022
Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.
Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.
Picking up what they began in New York, Clackamas Rep and star Lauren Steele take a stellar tale continental. Plus Forgotten Women, Chick Fight, Taylor Mac & more.
Earth days, green days, Russian music, new music.
The calendar holds multiple readings by book award finalists, and an exploration of the question: Do bookstores matter?
“We’re looking to be Ashland, but with the clout and the power of Sundance”: Virtual or not, the festival opens up to a wider world.
Faded, worn-in roots-pop; bubbly synths; brutal noise-punk; emotionally charged player piano; deluxe hip-hop.
Guest conductor/bass-baritone Jonathan Woody leads PBO through a concert of Bach and relations.
A longtime shaper of the Oregon art scene, Kelly was known for his large-scale stainless steel and Cor-Ten sculptures, which combined abstract and geometric elements.
Stage notes: A conservatory throws a musical-theater gala, mystery theater and Lea Salonga at the Reser, the slap heard ’round the world.
The Seattle ballet star Noelani Pantastico reflects on her long dancing career and her move into teaching the next generation.
Oregon Bach Fest loses a director candidate after sexual harassment accusations. Women arts leaders take Oregon groups to new heights. A new opera company with a familiar face.
BodyVox and Akropolis Reed Quintet dial back to the ‘20s with Chamber Music Northwest concert.
In “Celilo, Never Silenced,” the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton’s new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
The Hillsboro-based writer talks about her work, her love of Sylvia Plath, and Indigenizing the tarot deck.
The Portland choreographer talks contemporary ballet, long-winded titles, supporting the arts, ballet’s glass ceiling for women artistic leaders, and her newest work.
The secret to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.
The choreographer, arts advocate, and former Creative Laureate of Portland moves on to the state arts stage.
Portland psychobiographer William Todd Schultz’s book “The Mind of the Artist” demystifies the driving forces behind creative inspiration.
The Project resurfaces with vivid works by Berlin video artist Anouk de Clercq. Plus what’s new on home and big screens.
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
PO’s dramatic, harrowing staging of the Pulitzer-winning opera.
Lloyd and Myrtle Hoffman, who offered classes and opened their home to friends and strangers, left as their legacy a gathering place for art lovers.
Award-winning new opera by Tazwell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori arrives in Pacific Northwest.
The Portland author will discuss her Victorian tale of necromancy Tuesday in a virtual event presented by Powell’s Books.
Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley’s Pulitzer Prize winning opera shows how racism helped send innocent teens to prison
The retired college professor says her Irish chambermaid hero appeared to her on a road trip.
A conversation with writer Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, whose choreopoem “In the Name of Forgotten Women” is debuting at CoHo.
Piontek’s photographs explore the intricacies of family, love, and inevitable loss. The title of the exhibition, “Abendlied,” means lullaby or evening song in German, capturing the intimacy of the series.
The movie star, who died in Portland on Sunday, performed in four plays with Artists Rep. Also: Getting grisly with “Titus,” comedy & more.
Anthony Davis’s shattering work at Portland Opera opens deep and disturbing questions about race and policing in the United States.
Voices in Vancouver; PGMC at The Reser; Aurora Chorus sings Joan Szymko.
Mobsters and Mark Rylance with scissors in the entertaining “Outfit,” “X” marks the slashers, plus new & revival releases around town.
PCO commission ‘My Words Are My Sword’ pulls together poetry and music.
After a Covid postponement and with a largely new cast, Fuse Theatre’s premiere of Mikki Gillette’s play transitions to the stage.
Oregon ArtsWatch takes a dive into unfamiliar waters with PuzzleWatch, a new monthly series of culture-focused crossword puzzles by Daryl Browne.
Father and son take a nostalgic journey with new concerto for piano and orchestra.
An interview with the founder and creatives behind the non-profit PlayWrite
By a popular restaurant on the way to the Oregon Coast, an open-air logging museum offers the strange and ghostly beauty of ruination. A photo essay by K.B. Dixon.
The Art of Learning: PYJO celebrates its third decade and return to the stage with a March 14 concert at Portland’s Alberta Rose Theatre.
On the 65th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam, the River People gather to remember, revisit, and look ahead.
Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris of the Oregon School for the Deaf wins the Poetry Out Loud state title; new at the art museum; downtown art space trashed.
On a path from Germany to Southern Oregon, sculptor Christian Burchard goes with the grain as he collects, cuts, turns, and dreams the surprises in the wood.
Portland Center Stage opens the masterful “Gem of the Ocean,” “The Queers” lights a Fuse, Milagro’s “Antigone” on the border, more.
Oregon Chorale revives mental health themed concert originally planned for 2020.
The Portland gallerist expresses “deep regret and apology” for comparing vaccine mandates to religious persecution.
Grants in honor of the late Ross McKeen; 45th Parallel benefit concerts for Ukraine refugees; Sabina Haque’s silhouettes at Waterstone.
Harp-and-bassoon duo Hats & Heels perform women composers at Beall Concert Hall.
Oregon choirs amass in Spokane for Northwestern American Choral Directors Association.
Two foreign-film winners: Archaeology and understanding on a Russian train; moral complexity in the Palestinian West Bank.
This year’s Soapstone Bread and Roses Award recipient discusses hosting successful reading series and life on the Oregon Coast.
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