A PSU choir’s link to Leonard Cohen’s most famous song; a Covid cancellation; Afro-Topia Pop-Up; remembering Hilary Mantel & Louise Fletcher; Corey Brunish & “The Music Man.”
Xuan Cheng, principal dancer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, is the new principal dancer and ballet mistress for Hong Kong Ballet. She’ll split the next year between Hong Kong and Oregon.
Art for Labor Day, remembering writer Barbara Ehrenreich and actor Gary Brickner-Schulz, Profile Theatre’s post-theft helping hands, a final week for the biennial.
At Historic Alberta House, 60 of the master maskmaker’s artist friends explore hidden and revealed identities – and Fuemmeler unmasks a change of his own.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” living under a death threat since 1989, is stabbed onstage in western New York. Grievously injured, he remains a profile in courage.
The Oregon Community Foundation’s grants to arts and cultural projects range from $17,000 to $100,000 in Portland, Warm Springs, Phoenix, and Eugene.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
Maryhill Museum’s “Exquisite Gorge II” throws a party. Who is and isn’t getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist’s child faces a health crisis.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
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.
From the father of modern Ukraine literature to the missing statues in Portland’s Park Blocks, a battle brews over history and the stories we tell.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Carley, 72, was a guiding force for the Portland Black theater company for 40 years and a deeply admired figure in the city’s arts and nonprofit worlds.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
The Portland and New York producer wins his fourth Tony Award, for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”
The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.
The pieces from the museum’s Rasmussen Collection of Native American Art, taken from their Alaska homes in the 1930s, are given back.
On the art of storytelling and the lure of the violent in the telling of the human tale; on book-banning and the glories and bravery of libraries.
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