The multi-screen installation documentary focuses on the life of Frederick Douglass. Julien’s project embodies the notion that there is always more than one version to any story.
“He led with his heart, and what a huge, open heart it was!”: The leader of Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Siletz Bay Music Festival leaves a giant gap among musicians and friends.
The festival’s just-announced 2024 season suggests a return to the kind of lineup that’s excited audiences in the past. Plus: Fats Waller and the joint are jumpin’ at Broadway Rose.
The series of five podcasts by young artists and writers continues as Cara Chen hosts “World On Fire.”
Authentic music making and memories highlighted the recent PSCO concert “Authentic Self,” which featured music by Mozart alongside works by Florence Beatrice Price, Gerald Finzi, Joaquín Turina, and more.
Also this week: “Radical Wolfe” pays tribute to an iconic New Journalist, and a hungry Hindu demon haunts a group of teens in “It Lives Inside.”
The “Ambassador’s Portal” by Ken McCall replaces a beloved sculpture as the city expands its public art offerings with plans for five more new pieces and an arts garden.
Tackling apocalypse and perseverance with the local consort of professional and amateur musicians.
The show, in the McMinnville gallery through Oct. 6, features work by artists from Outside the Frame, a nonprofit that mentors unhoused youth.
The Portland production of the doomsaying contemporary opera balanced farce and gloom.
As a new biography hits the book stands, Seattle theater critic Misha Berson recalls her own interactions with the late, great American playwright.
The innovative Portland dance company enters a new season in a spirit of collaboration, civic renewal, and fresh ideas.
Another year, another symphony season. Join our Puzzlemaster-in-Residence Daryl Browne as she conducts you through the musical highlights with this month’s crossword puzzle.
Tickets for opening night Oct. 20 go on sale Monday and are expected to sell out fast, say organizers of the event held at the High Desert Museum.
Bag & Baggage’s “Our Utopia” riffs on themes from Thornton Wilder’s classic. Plus openings, closings, and Bill Rauch’s debut with the new Perelman Center in New York.
A special, five-episode series from Stage & Studio of interviews by and with 20 young artists and writers begins with the podcast “And That Happened.”
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
The erstwhile Portland author’s new book shows how today’s professional basketball stars influence fashion, style and more.
“Mutt,” the first feature film by director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, follows a trans man in New York over the course of two days.
The exhibition includes collage-based works from 44 artists from over the last 60 years. The works confirm the generative capacity and flexibility of collage as an artistic practice.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
A new artistic director and a revived, walk-through “immersive installation piece” at Zidell Yards keeps the veteran devised-theater company moving forward.
Choirs all over Oregon and Southwest Washington celebrate the close of summer programs and the beginning of fall concerts.
The Nov. 4 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is slated to feature events with more than 100 Oregon and national authors.
As summer’s end draws near and a new arts season approaches, some Oregon music institutions are welcoming new leadership, while others have suffered losses.
News & Notes: A new series of lectures on prominent women artists of the 20th century; The Immigrant Story goes live at The Armory; The –Ism Youth Files kicks off a podcast series.
The trio of violinist Inés Voglar Belgique, cellist-composer Nancy Ives, and pianist Susan DeWitt Smith performed music by Tomáš Svoboda, Ernest Bloch, David Schiff, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Ives.
Access and opportunity are at the heart of the mission of Pendleton Center for the Arts. The mission is especially fitting given that the center’s brick-and-mortar location was originally a Carnegie library.
From Portland’s museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.
From the annual Art Harvest Studio Tour to metal and fiber arts exhibits, a double handful of autumn gallery and studio shows to catch in Yamhill wine country.
The heady shuffle of “52 Pick-Up” extends its winning hand. Plus: Good news/bad news in Oregon theater, CoHo Clown Festival, a little Sondheim music, openings and closings.
The Portland biennial’s point of depARTure: In a world of multiple crises, political art is having its day again.
With a new 4K restoration, Godard’s 1963 indictment of the post-studio era is worth revisiting 60 years later, when Hollywood once again finds itself at a crossroads.
An intimate, experiential report from the long-running Happy Valley campout music festival.
The director talks about his new film with Marc Mohan ahead of two screenings this weekend at the Portland Art Museum.
Patience, attention to detail, and years of experience are big factors in this niche profession.
‘Chakras – The Wheel of Energy,’ a sold-out show of Bharatanatyam dance and Carnatic music at Hillsboro’s HART Theater, brought an energizing flavor of classical Indian art forms to an eager Oregon audience.
Working hard with Renegade Opera, Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, Cascadia Composers, Lose Yr Mind Fest, Ural Thomas, Amenta “Yawa” Abioto, and more.
Born following a ruckus about “political” symbols in local schools, the professional company — part of Yamhill County’s thriving theater scene — aims to create a safe space for minority communities.
Why everyone’s flocking to an old Victoria’s Secret to see a Beckett play. Plus: “Tina” on tour, the joys of a kids’ backyard theater camp, and a question: Must the show go on?
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