This is your brain on art
March 25, 2022
Portland psychobiographer William Todd Schultz’s book “The Mind of the Artist” demystifies the driving forces behind creative inspiration.
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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