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Dinh Q. Lê at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

April 18, 2025Justin Duyao

Lê died unexpectedly at age 56 in 2023. The survey at the artist's long-time Portland gallery includes the artist's well-known photo-weavings along with sculptural and photographic work.

Rick Bartow Art Studio finds a new home at Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center

April 17, 2025Lori Tobias

The tiny building when the beloved Newport artist worked will be reconstructed at the preserve, giving the arts program the home base it has lacked.

FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Wedding Banquet’ redux, ‘Gazer,’ and ‘The Ugly Stepsister’

April 17, 2025Marc Mohan

This week at the movies: a reimagining of Ang Lee's 1993 comedy "The Wedding Banquet", a microbudget indie triumph, plus some thoughts on the latest Marvel slop.

In Salem, arts leaders and advocates gather to plan for a better future

April 17, 2025Dee Moore

At a reception sponsored by the Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon, Oregon Cultural Trust and Oregon Arts Commission, leaders from across the state tell their stories and plan to lobby legislators.

April DanceWatch, Part Two: From National Dance Week to Grupo Corpo and much more, a busy month of dance continues

April 16, 2025Jamuna Chiarini

Oregon's dance scene is a blur of motion with Step Afrika!, esperanza spalding, dance from India and Indonesia, BodyVox, OBT originals, and Ukraine's "Sleeping Beauty."

In her novel ‘Sunshine Girl,’ journalist Nancy Townsley peeks into ‘newsrooms of yore’

April 15, 2025Amy Wang

Townsley, longtime reporter for Portland-area community newspapers, will launch her first novel April 22 at Broadway Books.

Salomé’s spellbinding strangeness

April 15, 2025Linda Ferguson

Imago Theatre’s mesmerizing production embraces the wonderful weirdness of Oscar Wilde’s verse play … and then some.

The bouyant absurdity of ‘Melancholy Play’

April 15, 2025Linda Ferguson

A parachute keeps the comic action moving in Blinking Eye Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s oddly uplifting play about sadness.

Fertile Ground: Homegrown plays, west of the hills

April 15, 2025Brett Campbell

This year's greater Portland festival of new works inspires creation of original theater pieces in Beaverton, Hillsboro and beyond.

‘Hands of the Ancestors’: Kalapuya artist Stephanie Craig’s mix of past and present

April 15, 2025Dee Moore

Craig's woven basketry at the Linfield Art Gallery rekindles a fading heritage, blending contemporary methods with the traditions and meanings of ancestral ways.

‘You Can’t Be Serious’: Andrea Parson’s solo show inspired by her sister’s death comes to Astoria

April 14, 2025Lori Tobias

The choreographer will present her award-winning performance of dance and storytelling May 2 and 3 at Ten Fifteen Productions.

Artistic wellspring: Trio of exhibits celebrates Arlene Schnitzer’s contributions

April 14, 2025Justin Duyao

Three exhibitions, two at the Oregon Historical Society and one at the Schnitzer Collection, explore the ways Arlene Schnitzer and her Fountain Gallery have shaped Oregon's artistic landscape. The last installment of 'A Fountain of Creativity: Oregon's 20th Century Artists and the Legacy of Arlene Schnitzer' closes May 4th.

Catherine E. Coulson: ‘The Log Lady’ and so much more

April 14, 2025Jim Flint

The Ashland Independent Film Festival will honor the "Twin Peaks" star and one of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's most beloved artists with the Oregon premiere of the documentary “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady.”

Dance review: Sarah Slipper’s ‘Hedda’ vividly captures the intensity of Ibsen’s play

April 13, 2025Jamuna Chiarini

NW Dance Project's deep and resonant production is sparked by fine design, excellent score, highly skilled ensemble and Slipper's feel for Ibsen's tense tale.

PuzzleWatch: Pianos and Piano Players

April 13, 2025Daryl Browne

Practice your music trivia skills with this tricky tribute to some of the greatest talents ever to tickle the ivories.

A noble effort: Classical Up Close enters thirteenth season

April 12, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews

The series of pop-up performances and full-length concerts – all free of charge, all featuring Oregon Symphony musicians – springs into action at a variety of venues this month and next.

Not how you play but how you listen: The Jerusalem Quartet’s complete Shostakovich cycle for Friends of Chamber Music

April 12, 2025Alice Hardesty

The Israeli string quartet returned to Portland, twelve years after its last run through the Shostakovich quartets.

Music on the Move: Oasis Ensemble takes contemporary Oregon chamber music and more around the state

April 11, 2025Brett Campbell

Eugene-based classical trio features award-winning veteran orchestra musicians, a rising star, and abundant new music.

A farewell to James Edmondson, longtime star at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

April 11, 2025Jim Flint

Edmondson, who began his long OSF career in 1972 by playing Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew," died at home in Ashland at age 86, days after the death of fellow festival veteran Denis Arndt.

Donna Guardino, gallery owner and a force behind the Alberta Arts District, dies at age 81

April 11, 2025Beth Sorensen

A longtime icon in the Portland arts community, Guardino was known for championing the careers of new artists.

Tiffany Mills steps up at Lewis & Clark

April 11, 2025Hannah Krafcik

The longtime New York contemporary choreographer, now director of dance at L&C, brings her company to campus for an invigorating performance and workshops.

Looking then and now: ‘Differ We Must’

April 10, 2025William C. Stack

In his Hatfield Lecture Series talk, National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep discusses his new book on Abraham Lincoln and makes some surprising comparisons to today’s politics.

FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Misericordia,’ ‘When Fall Is Coming,’ Alex Garland’s ‘Warfare,’ and much more

April 10, 2025Marc Mohan

This week at the movies: in two noirish dramas, dangerous secrets lurk behind the French countryside's picturesque facade. Plus: the buddy comedy "Sacramento," "The World Will Tremble," and more.

A sense of awesomeness: Organist Paul Jacobs in Eugene

April 10, 2025Angela Allen

The virtuoso, a favorite of Oregon Bach Festival audiences, performed a solo concert of Ives, Franck, Mendelssohn, Stanley, Brahms, and Bach in Beall Hall.

‘Life of Pi:’ A shipwreck and a tiger’s tale

April 9, 2025Linda Ferguson

The Broadway in Portland show at Keller Auditorium sates our hunger for spectacle by offering a sumptuous feast of projections and puppetry.

Singing is service: From Beethoven to Barbershop

April 9, 2025Daryl Browne

Also this month: Requiems, lamentations, yelling, Alzheimer’s stories, and more.

Oregon Ballet Theatre’s ‘Marilyn’, the consideration of icons, and the influence of old Hollywood

April 9, 2025Amy Leona Havin

Dani Rowe's world-premiere ballet about the life and times of Marilyn Monroe moves through space deftly as it grapples with her legend and the men who surrounded her.

Spark Plug: Taking risks, building trust

April 9, 2025Brett Campbell

Loading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater collective brings new and homegrown theater works to Beaverton.

The Toni’s: Eugene Ballet presents a Toni Pimble retrospective

April 8, 2025Jean Zondervan

On Saturday, April 12, the company pays special tribute to Eugene Ballet’s founder and longtime artistic director, presenting five works, choreographed and selected by Pimble herself, which reflect her long career in dance.

Steve Ehret: Here there be humors

April 7, 2025Patrick Collier

Ehret's monster-filled compositions both represent demons and exorcise them. Patrick Collier reviews "Resting my Bones" at The Art Center in Corvallis.