The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum’s second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
A lush retelling of a Nancy Mitford novel, a winner from New Zealand about the travails of three Maori cousins.
In a time of cultural and climate meltdown, are literary artists predicting the history of what’s to come?
Amid a pandemic and racial reckoning, Friderike Heuer’s photo montages set sail against melancholy.
Friderike Heuer’s montage series based on George Tooker’s art raises timely questions of who lives or dies.
Not “outside”: Portland Art and Learning Studio artists create an exhilarating exhibit at Gallery 114.
A gathering of Native American activists and a documentary film join the battle against climate threats.
Photographer Gillian Laub’s probing of the persistence of racial attitudes is visual activism at its best.
Finding the warp and weft of things in Amanda Triplett’s studio and a trip to the Portland Art Museum.
A showcase of student dancers highlights the talent and promise of a new generation.
A visit to see Dorothy Goode’s joyful, merging, overlapping, playful paintings.
At the Museum of the Oregon Territory, a “gutsy art of overcoming” creates an art show and an auction.
As the U.S. cracks down on “Dreamers,” the Oregon Historical Society digs deep into the stories of new Americans.
An expansive exhibit at the Getty gets to the grit of the great German modernist’s life and work.
Charles Burt charts a course from the rigors of military life to the rigors of an art academy.
An LGBTQ+ glass art exhibition at the Museum of Glass is a celebration, a memorial, and an unveiling.
A collaboration of artists and inmates gives lively, often funny voice to the view from inside the walls.
The weekly paper and its vendor-poets celebrate 20 years as beacons of advocacy for the city’s homeless.
