Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Exhibits of a major Surrealist artist getting her due and a photographer known for his images of children amid war give rise to a host of cultural connections.
In the exhibition “Ms. Molly’s Voice” at the Columbia Gorge Museum, a collection of family quilts reveals beauty, pain, remembrance, and secret signs along the Underground Railroad.
For four days, the Portland garden joins others around the world in the artist and peace activist’s almost 30-year project of creating and adorning Wish Trees in pursuit of peace.
As a Vancouver show tells multiple tales, an inspiring exhibit at California’s Huntington Library concentrates on a single artist: the chronicler of Black life Sargent Claude Johnson.
At the clifftop museum overlooking the Columbia Gorge, two new exhibitions follow the river’s flow for 300 miles to create art of the land, water, and Northwest cultures.
“We might not be interested in war, but war will be interested in us”: An expansive Los Angeles exhibit on propaganda and art during World War I has parallels to the war-torn world of today.
At Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Ruth Ross and other artists stitch and weave tales that open up many questions.
Looking at “Black Artists of Oregon” and “Africa Fashion” at the Portland Art Museum.
Storm damage shuts down the Beaverton arts center’s galleries for repairs; The Judy reopens after its own storm damage; and All Classical’s biggest-ever grant, from the Murdock Trust, helps its move to new downtown Portland headquarters.
A new exhibit at the Beaverton art center showcases a variety of rising artists displaying fresh work that engages in many kinds of conversations.
Katherine Ace, Yaki Bergman, Margaret Chapman, Walt Curtis, Darcelle, Cai Emmons, Michael Griggs, Donald Jenkins, Henk Pander and more: Oregon arts figures who died in 2023.
From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford’s 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon’s year in the worlds of museums and visual art.
Seventeen prints, made between 1961 and 2005, showcase both the artist’s prowess in print media and the arc of the print renaissance in the United States.
Margles, the longtime executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, retires after 24 years of inspired leadership.
In a Southern California museum dedicated to the work of Latin American artists, a trio of exhibitions offer food for thought and a feast for the eyes.
The Hiroshima-based artist-in-residence at the Portland Japanese Garden’s Japan Institute discusses his parallel explorations of time, place, and what lies beneath.
Oregon Symphony will perform Akiho’s latest this weekend, alongside Dvořák’s Othello Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique.”
A bold exhibition at the Hammer Museum reveals the City of Angels from street level, basking in the textures of the city’s past and its roiling, often overlooked contemporary realities.
A new exhibit by the Portland Japanese Garden’s artist-in-residence looks with fresh eyes on the cultural meanings of Kyoto’s Rashomon Gate.
A ramble through public art spaces and a new exhibit at Salem’s Bush Barn Art Center that Pitt calls her last public show reveals the heart and spirit of a remarkable and beloved artist.
The Portland biennial’s point of depARTure: In a world of multiple crises, political art is having its day again.
Converge 45 brings a suite of compelling shows to Portland-area art spaces and there is plenty to see around the state as well. Jason N. Le has the intel on September’s art events.
The Portland artist’s stack of birds in The Reser’s plaza brings something special to the Converge 45 biennial: a touch of joy.
At Russo Lee Gallery, an Indigenous artist’s images suggest a “green colonialism” in which extraction of minerals for new technology once again overrides tribal rights.
Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander (and Dalí) at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
The veteran Portland artist’s July show at NINE Gallery springs from her own breast cancer and the pioneering treatment she chose to defeat it.
New leadership and a show of diverse work by women artists in the Gorge suggest a transformation of ideas at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.
Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
Along the San Fernando Valley’s “Mural Mile,” art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place’s people and cultures.
In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.
The Oregon nonprofit organization’s event series “I Am An American Live” counters ignorance and fear with sounds and stories from Oregon immigrants.
“Our Creative Future,” a two-year, broad-based planning effort, seeks to set the tone for the growth and stability of the region’s arts culture over the next 10 years.
The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.
Art and politics square off in a pair of print shows from the Los Angeles County Art Museum and a trip through the city’s sprawling streets.
A grand Southern California camellia garden is built on stock bought dirt cheap from Japanese American farmers during World War II. The whole story is rarely told.
The Portland-raised tycoon’s eye for art and acquisition helped build a highly personal collection in Southern California.
“Kenji Ide: A Poem of Perception” marks a new era for contemporary art at the Portland Japanese Garden as well as a requiem for its late curator, Matt Jay.
At Lan Su Garden and the Portland Chinatown Museum, tradition meets new realities and possibilities – and the challenges of a houseless crisis.
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
As Studio Abioto’s African-diaspora “Red Thread: Green Earth” closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
Listening backwards and forwards to the trends and traditions which (we hope) will continue into the next year.
From Frida Kahlo to Banksy to Arvie Smith to Elizabeth Leach’s 40 years to Michelangelo vs. the dinosaurs, a year of invigorating things to see.
From Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to vaccine wars to street protests and racial reckonings, the art world responds to the world at large.
The Beaverton arts center’s new gallery show from Studio Abioto, a family of talented Black women artists, traces a thread back to the land.
Harley Gaber’s photomontages and foreboding echoes of history at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
An exhibit of the Japanese American artist’s sculptures is strategically placed amid the garden. Do they fit into this reflective space? Decisively, yes.
Choirs around Oregon prepare their fall concerts, featuring single-composer premieres, newly-scored old movies, and more.
A deep visit with the expanded garden and with the Japan Institute’s first artist in residence, Japanese glass artist Rui Sasaki.
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