Ruth Ross: Red Scare, Ripped Threads
Friderike Heuer
July 31, 2022
The Portland artist’s new show at Gallery 114 has roots in family history, the Rosenberg spy trial, and the excesses of the 1950s McCarthy era.
The Portland artist’s new show at Gallery 114 has roots in family history, the Rosenberg spy trial, and the excesses of the 1950s McCarthy era.
The Brentano first violinist, recently in Oregon for CMNW, talks isolation, collaboration, and simultaneity.
The quartet performed two distinctive programs for this year’s festival.
The Oregon Symphony’s Zach Galatis and friends raise the roof in the kickoff show of this summer’s Concerts in the Barn.
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
Small-theater stars CoHo, PETE, and Third Rail join forces to beat the real estate game. Plus: Last chance to see Imago’s “Voiceover”; openings & closings.
K.B. Dixon’s series of portraits continues with the Oregon Symphony’s Scott Showalter, Renegade Opera’s Madeline Ross, theater leader Michael Mendelson, poet Genevieve DeGuzman, and roots music legend Lloyd Jones.
Long-running celebration of English Renaissance polyphony brings three weekends of music and lectures to Oregon churches.
An exchange with the Indian-American composer, featured recently at Chamber Music Northwest and set to return next month as this year’s Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival composer-in-residence.
The Pulitzer-nominated piece for percussion drew an epic crowd to CMNW’s penultimate New@Night concert.
A feature documentary on a famous song opens a window on genius and packs an emotional punch.
For the first time in two years, Baroque and Romantic classics will ring out at the historic Oregon monastery.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
The director of “the biggest documentary sensation of the summer” tells the volcanic tale of creating a film about fire and ice.
The young composer, whose music was featured on a string of recent concerts at Chamber Music Northwest, discusses his formative musical moments.
For Maryhill Museum’s Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
The Scottish painter created images from the Middle East, traveling “at a time when things looked very different,” the exhibition curator says.
A surge in cases causes cancellations and postponements of events. Plus: The NEA looks at artists in the workplace; summer concerts in a barn; at museums, free is a very good price.
The New York-based trio brings jazz and swing influences to its music; Brongaene Griffin and Cary Novotny also are on the bill.
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