Two conversations with Takahiro Iwasaki
November 5, 2023
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.
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.
“Quarterback Princess,” a 1983 TV movie that kicked off two future Academy Award winners’ careers, is also a McMinnville (or rather, “Minnville”) time capsule.
Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.
The Portland Art Museum’s redesigned, glass-ensconced addition, due to open in summer 2025, will make viewing easier and could be a boon to an ailing downtown.
The group exhibit “Biomass,” in a Pearl District warehouse space, reunites a contemporary art community after a lengthy pause.
After a tumultuous few years, a recent self-curated show in her new home gave this venerable, multitalented artist a sense of agency and renewal.
Nestled beside Forest Park, the former Salvation Army White Shield Center is set to become a whole new cultural campus, devoted to classes, lectures and artist residencies.
“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.
A conversation with the Portland-educated experimental filmmaker and newly minted MacArthur “Genius Grant” honoree.
Portland documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom (“Alien Boy,” “Finding Normal”) and co-director Andy Brown discuss their new film about the life and sorrows of ’70s singer Judee Sill.
Either way, seismic concerns are pushing a decision. A recent tour of Oregon’s biggest performance hall demonstrated the building’s need and its untapped potential.
With his new novel, the writer known best for his Oregon-set movies with director Kelly Reichardt ventures beyond our borders and into the future.
A new book of collages, “I Made an Accident,” celebrates the Portland novelist and memoirist’s creative second act.
Portland psychobiographer William Todd Schultz’s book “The Mind of the Artist” demystifies the driving forces behind creative inspiration.
Portland’s beloved Elk statue and accompanying fountain were removed after sustaining considerable damage in the protests of 2020. The city recently announced an imminent, yet imperfect, return.
A pandemic piano acquisition a century in the making: After stops in Chicago, Sioux Falls, a school music room in Tigard & more, it feels like home.
The center’s director talks about programming, inclusiveness, flexibility, and the rise of “surban” identity.
The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, due to open in March 2022, gives Beaverton a stage and sense of place.
The director and composer discuss their new opera “Sanctuaries” and staging it outside Memorial Coliseum.
Double-exposure photographs by Mike Vos, Dinh Q. Lê and Gary Burnley speak to our polarized times.
The Oregon Jewish Museum reopens with a deep dive into the story of the fountains that reshaped the city.
Relocating a WWII jail cell to the Japanese American Museum of Oregon honors a civil rights hero.
Smith’s photos remind us that you don’t have to scratch the surface of time TOO deeply to find Old Portland.
Our series on artist spaces, which began before the pandemic, continues as artists try to figure out where to make art as resources dry up and Covid-19 continues.
As rapid development tightens the real estate market in Portland’s core, arts groups try to play the game.
There’s a name you keep repeating You’ve got nothing better to do — Elliott Smith, “Alphabet Town” From James Dean to Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain to Heath Ledger, we have immortalized a constellation of famous artists—especially musicians and actors—who died young and,
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