November 17, 2025Georgina Ruff
The Biennial at Hallie Ford Museum of Art showcases CSIA's recent prints, celebrates its 33-year legacy, and hints at the organization's priorities moving forward.
November 17, 2025Lori Tobias
The extravaganza received help from the Siletz Tribe and Oregon Coast Aquarium. “The county is all-in on this production,” says director Morgan Locklear.
November 16, 2025Judith Altruda
Prompted by a U.S. stamp of his ancestor Chief Standing Bear, Cliff Taylor’s "Indigenous Visions" exhibit brings together Native artists and writers from across the Pacific Northwest.
November 15, 2025K.B. Dixon
In the creative hodgepodge of a Sellwood store of practical things, finding grace and beauty in the pared-down shapes of the everyday tools of life.
November 14, 2025Jim Redden
Twenty literary and media artists in Oregon receive $25,000 each in the second year of the foundation's three-year push to boost the careers of individual artists in the state.
November 13, 2025Marc Mohan
Also this week: the charmless "Now You See Me: Now You Don't," Edgar Wright's "The Running Man," and Nicolas Cage in the Gnostic horror film "The Carpenter's Son."
November 13, 2025Angela Allen
The jazz harpist, hosted once again by PDX Jazz, performed her own compositions and celebrated the music of her predecessors Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby.
An expansive exhibit at Oregon Contemporary, curated by the late, great Portland writer's son, opens up the speculative worlds she created and how she shaped them in words.
November 12, 2025Jim Redden
A promised $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund the center's 2026 Artists' Biennial is abruptly snatched back. But the show will go on.
November 12, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Third Rail Rep’s pitch-perfect revival of its inaugural show sheds light on the events of 2025.
As the president rejects funding for art about gender, race, and "anti-American values," historians, museums, and cultural centers across Oregon and the U.S. fight back.
November 11, 2025Dee Moore
In a sprawling industrial space at Portland's Building 5, artist Jennifer Gilla Cutshall creates a vivid installation of beauty with a warning about the imperiled planet.
November 11, 2025Charles Rose
The Portland music group and the former Oregon Poet Laureate presented a concert featuring music by Dai Fujikara, Quinn Mason, Caroline Shaw and a world premiere composed by 3A violist Wendy Richman.
November 11, 2025David Bates
"Memories & Inspirations: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art" started when an Atlanta postal carrier wanted a painting for his home.
November 11, 2025Laura Grimes
A remarkable transformation occurs when a collective community nurtures a garden of hope.
November 10, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The world premiere of Caroline Finn's "Don't Forget to Panic" and the return of Ihsan Rustem's "Carmen" with original stars Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto create a pleasurably riveting evening.
November 10, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
“Safe,” “welcoming,” and “awesome” are a few words Portlanders and visitors alike used to describe downtown.
November 9, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Melissa Febos and Lidia Yuknavitch also spoke at this year’s festival on their career successes and how they overcame bumps along the way.
November 9, 2025Amy Wang
Saturday's sold-out festival had something for everyone, from romantasy to biography, plus National Book Award winners and finalists.
November 9, 2025Amy Leona Havin
One writer's day at the festival included hearing from Jess Walter, Kristen Arnett, Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Perrine, and Tara Roberts.
November 8, 2025Ariella-Sophie Sternberg
At an open house and marketplace at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's museum, artists weave a story that carries traditional skills and values into the modern world.
November 8, 2025K.B. Dixon
As the Portland Book Festival and its visiting writers move into high gear, photographer K.B. Dixon portrays 15 homegrown winners of Oregon Book Awards.
November 7, 2025Bob Hicks
Amy Lewin will oversee the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust, and will be a part of Business Oregon's leadership team.
November 7, 2025Jim Redden
Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.
November 7, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland to host its first-ever Sarcasm Festival Dec. 5–7 as a host of comedians converge on Shakespeare territory and aim for audiences' funny bones.
November 7, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The former Portlander's new book is both a memoir and a tutorial on the craft of writing.
November 6, 2025Marc Mohan
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, Lynne Ramsay's first feature film since 2017 depicts a woman's frenzied descent into psychosis.
November 6, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
In which we consider the problem of “overproduction of cultural goods” in the context of encouraging you to touch grass with Portugal. The Man, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Nasalrod, Madeline Ross, Oregon East Symphony, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Wonderly, and the Low Bar Chorale.
November 6, 2025Angela Allen
An interview with the British-Chinese composer — commissioned by the recently formed trio of pianist Gloria Chien, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron — ahead of the trio's upcoming Chamber Music Northwest concert.
November 6, 2025Jim Redden
The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.
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