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Bob Hicks
Bob Hicks
Bob Hicks
Bob Hicks has been covering arts and culture in the Pacific Northwest since 1978, including 25 years at The Oregonian. Among his art books are Kazuyuki Ohtsu; James B. Thompson: Fragments in Time; and Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna and Flora. His work has appeared in American Theatre, Biblio, Professional Artist, Northwest Passage, Art Scatter, and elsewhere. He also writes the daily art-history series "Today I Am."

News & Notes: A deadline in The Dalles

The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.

News & Notes: A prize for Dana Lynn Louis

The Portland artist and activist is the winner of this year’s Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship. Also: a master painter and calligrapher at the Portland Chinatown Museum.

A legislative caucus for the arts

As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon’s Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.

OBT chooses a new artistic leader

Choreographer Danielle Rowe is named Oregon Ballet Theatre’s new artistic director; interim leader Peter Franc stays as artistic consultant.

The Oregon Story: Art and the land

Barbara Sellers-Young’s book “Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story” tells a tale of the state’s artists as leaders in environmental awareness.

PAM puts a hole in the wall

The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.

Henk Pander’s ‘Ordeal’

The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.

Memorial: Those we lost in 2022

Remembering the many Oregon arts and cultural figures who died in 2022, from music to dance to stage to screen to literary figures and more.

Doubling up with the Cultural Trust

Oregon’s unique Cultural Tax Credit can double your donation to arts and cultural groups. Deadline for this year’s gifts is Dec. 31.

DramaWatch: Going to the ZooZoo

Imago’s magical menagerie of costumed critters returns to the stage. Plus Dickens and C.S. Lewis and even Neil Simon.

Baroque Orchestra makes its choice

British harpsichordist and early-music champion Julian Perkins will succeed violinist Monica Huggett as artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Happy holidaze: A few shows for you

Susannah Mars at Wilf’s, a little Batucada samba, Imago’s “ZooZoo” menagerie, M&F “Santaland” nostalgia at the history museum.

DramaWatch: Enter Laughing

Holiday shows dominate December’s theater calendar, with good cheer and comedy and a few dark edges to keep you on your toes.

Arts champion Jim Winkler, 72, dies

The Portland developer was a longtime trustee of the Portland Art Museum and a key figure in transforming the North Park Blocks into a gallery and museum district.

DramaWatch: Shaking the holiday tree

Suddenly it’s time for theatrical good cheer, from Tiny Tim to a Wonderful Life to a PDX musical – plus Corrib’s foray into an intense virtual future.

News & Notes: A fanfare for funds

Two big gifts aid the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five Portland groups; new faces at the Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission; a leadership incubator wants you.

News & Notes: Tales from citizen tellers

Immigrant stories in “I Am an American Live”; Chinatown Museum; a trip to Paris Photo; a farewell to Gwyneth Gamble Booth, Native American Arts & Salmon Festival.

News & Notes: A resonating ‘Hallelujah’

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.”

A Portland ballet star moves on to Hong Kong

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.

Tony Fuemmeler and the masks of life

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.

Salman Rushdie and the dangerous world

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.

News & Notes: Singin’ the Covid blues again

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.

Tilikum Chamber Orchestra A Musical Gift Exchange Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego Oregon
CoHo Productions presents Laughing Matters Portland Oregon
Literary Arts The Moth Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland Oregon
Open Space Not-Cracker Newmark Theatre Portland Oregon
Chamber Music Northwest The Old Church Strings Portland Oregon
Portland Playhouse A Christmas Carol Portland Oregon
PassinArt presents Black Nativity Brunish Theatre Portland Oregon
Oregon Repertory Singers Glory of Christmas Concert Portland Oregon
Imago Theatre ZooZoo Portland Oregon
Bridgetown Conservatory Ludlow Ladd The Poor Little Orphan Boy Holiday Operetta Tiffany Center Portland Oregon
Northwest Dance Project Sarah Slipper New Stories Portland Oregon
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