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.
The Salem artist’s exhibit “Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica” at the Hallie Ford Museum blends science and art in a land of extremes.
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, which reinvented itself during the pandemic, will take a “strategic hiatus” in 2023 to reinvent again.
The widely loved Foote, who retired to Mexico after years of helping Oregon Children’s Theatre rise to national prominence, was 69.
From housing crises to race in Portland, the Mosaic’s seventh annual festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 brings the past into the present.
Brunish gets his 12th nomination as a producer, for the Broadway revival of “Company.” Beaverton High grad Bean is honored for “Mr. Saturday Night.”
Portland’s 1917 performance hall can’t withstand a major quake. What’s next: Expensive upgrades or more expensive replacement of the hall?
As arguments rage over returning the elk to its downtown home with its full fountain, City Commissioners Carmen Rubio and Dan Ryan push for full restoration.
A month to focus on Asian American culture, Betty LaDuke in Grants Pass and Lillian Pitt in Newport, PassinArt and Center Stage party down, legislators join the Cultural Trust.
A big step toward a new home for the university’s School of Art + Design. “Merry Wives” sing out. In Salem, Putin on parade. Voices for Ukraine. A tribute to Lady Day. A memorial for Una Loughran. Wayne Brady in the house. Brunish takes on London.
Five women singer-songwriters sing out Sunday in a benefit concert for Ukraine, and 10 pianists put on a show to aid a children’s music program.
A Columbia Gorge haiku challenge. An interim leader for Portland Baroque Orchestra. Damien Geter and the Oregon Symphony go bicoastal. Classical jams. Oregon Fringe Festival.
The Portland stage star, 78, took classic turns in plays by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Noel Coward, and G.B. Shaw.
A longtime shaper of the Oregon art scene, Kelly was known for his large-scale stainless steel and Cor-Ten sculptures, which combined abstract and geometric elements.
Stage notes: A conservatory throws a musical-theater gala, mystery theater and Lea Salonga at the Reser, the slap heard ’round the world.
The choreographer, arts advocate, and former Creative Laureate of Portland moves on to the state arts stage.
On the 65th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam, the River People gather to remember, revisit, and look ahead.
Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris of the Oregon School for the Deaf wins the Poetry Out Loud state title; new at the art museum; downtown art space trashed.
The Portland gallerist expresses “deep regret and apology” for comparing vaccine mandates to religious persecution.
Grants in honor of the late Ross McKeen; 45th Parallel benefit concerts for Ukraine refugees; Sabina Haque’s silhouettes at Waterstone.
How does the arts world respond to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Memories of a time in Russia suggest a war nurtured in fields of beauty and danger.
A Tuesday ribbon-cutting sets the stage for art and performance at the new, $55 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts.
A suite of fiery paintings at the Oregon Jewish Museum goes face to face with the cultural clashes between police and protesters in downtown Portland.
Grenon’s paintings on glass conveyed folk-art vigor and psychological vitality: a stark gaze back at the viewer’s gaze.
The publican-turned-mayor Bud Clark, who has died at 90, gave his outsized heart and personality to the city he loved.
The story of a long-lost Tony Award and how, with a little Oregon help, it finally got replaced. Plus big grants, awards, leadership shifts, and some “Slow Looking” at art.
Portland’s 13th annual festival of new works Jan. 27-Feb. 6 features 37 online projects, from dance to theater to puppetry and more.
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
Loughran, the dance company’s general manager for 20 years, died on Friday from cancer at age 58.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
From children’s writer Beverly Cleary to jazz star Carlton Jackson to actor Philip Cuomo and more, we say farewell to artists who died in 2021.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
Celebrating artists in Oregon whose visions stood out and helped define and rethink a precarious year.
From Imogen Cunningham to the Brontë sisters to the new NEA chief and more, women take the holiday-season cultural spotlight.
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, from Arizona State University, is confirmed as the new leader of the National Endowment for the Arts.
At the airport, a cultural banner flies high. At the art museum, the Nabis put on a show. At the movies, remakes happen. In Ashland and Newport, art starts over.
More music than you can jingle a bell at. Sex farce at the movies, ghosts onstage, democracy in the galleries, dancing cupcakes & nutcrackers.
Inside an “immersive art” extravaganza. Plus: Philip Cuomo and other deaths in the family, Indigenous culture and the future, talking with Willy Vlautin, what’s up in December.
Stephen Sondheim, who changed the face of Broadway, has died at 91; Esperanza Spalding and five other Oregon-linked artists score Grammy nominations.
As the holiday season begins, a time to remember, a time for thanks, a time for art and song.
A festival by and for Asian American/Pacific Islanders. Music for the holidays. Lighting the theatrical Fuse. 9,000 years of Oregon art. Wrapping up the Book Fest.
The jazz pianist and writer of such wry and well-loved songs as “My Attorney Bernie” and “I’m Hip” had lived in Portland since 1986.
The Portland painter’s historical revisions at Froelick Gallery upend the view of gender in Western art. Also at Froelick: Michael Schultheis’s explosions of paint.
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