Passages: Remembering the artists we lost in 2024

December 31, 2024

From Oscar-winning animator Mark Gustafson to 100-year old dancer Sahomi Tachibana and 108-year-old collage artist Eunice Parsons, honoring those who made their mark in Oregon arts.

2024 in Review: In Oregon’s museums and galleries, a big boom of art

December 28, 2024

A baker's dozen stories highlight some of the best, brightest, most imaginative and thought-provoking work of the year on display by Northwest artists.

2024 in Review: All around Oregon

December 27, 2024

From OSU's new PRAx arts center to libraries both energized and threatened, Nehalem's Trash Bash Art Festival, a fresh start at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and much more, a look at the arts year around the state.

OIBA kicks off Sugarplum Season

November 21, 2024

The dancers of Oregon International Ballet Academy, fresh from a tour of China and Japan, return to The Reser with their version of "The Nutcracker" Nov. 23 and 24.

Listen to ‘I Have a Dream’

January 15, 2024

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take seven minutes to watch and hear the eloquence and artistry of the famous speech that helped re-set a nation's compass.

2023 in Review: Remembering those we lost

December 31, 2023

Katherine Ace, Yaki Bergman, Margaret Chapman, Walt Curtis, Darcelle, Cai Emmons, Michael Griggs, Donald Jenkins, Henk Pander and more: Oregon arts figures who died in 2023.

2023 in Review: Around and about Oregon

December 28, 2023

From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.

2023 in Review: The look of visual arts

December 26, 2023

From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford's 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon's year in the worlds of museums and visual art.

Opinion: RACC leader on why a regional arts approach is best for the community to thrive

August 31, 2023

The city's plan to go its own way on arts funding and policy is "a huge mistake" that doesn't have to happen, the Regional Arts & Culture Council's Carol Tatch writes.

Opinion: Dan Ryan on why the city is taking its own arts path

August 31, 2023

The city commissioner speaks out on charting Portland’s future: increasing investments in arts, culture, and music.

Luisa and Rene talk theater and life

May 2, 2023

Actor Luisa Sermol and novelist Rene Denfeld sit down for a chat about drama, stories, sexism, making the invisible seen, and working together on the play "Myra's Story."   

Here’s looking at you: Visual arts in 2022

December 30, 2022

From Frida Kahlo to Banksy to Arvie Smith to Elizabeth Leach's 40 years to Michelangelo vs. the dinosaurs, a year of invigorating things to see.

Screening Room: Behind the camera in ’22

December 29, 2022

From the glories of Movie Madness to a flock of festivals to the tale of Will Vinton's lost dreams, it was a very good film year in Oregon.

2022: The year at the theater

December 28, 2022

Oregon's theater scene took the year literally in stages, from Covid caution to something resembling (but not quite) full speed ahead.

The cultural and hot wars of 2022

December 28, 2022

From Putin's invasion of Ukraine to vaccine wars to street protests and racial reckonings, the art world responds to the world at large.

‘Washed Ashore’ turns plastic garbage into art-with-a-message on the Oregon Coast

February 10, 2022

Students are using non-recyclable debris to create a tidal-rock sculpture that will grace the new Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza.

Red Octopus Theatre Company gets back in the swim with ‘The Christmas Show’ at the Newport Performing Arts Center

December 13, 2021

The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.

A beach walk with a mission

October 12, 2021

Niki Price of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hiking the Coast to raise money for the center and awareness of public art.

The weight of secrets

August 21, 2021

On view at the JSMA in Eugene: Belkis Ayón's collagraphs explore the mythology of an all-male secret society that she could never join.

Journeys: More than one way to fly

August 7, 2021

Once a flight attendant, Sora O'Doherty soars with her large-scale calligraphic performance art.

Portland Opera hires new artistic director

July 21, 2021

Priti Gandhi, who comes from Minnesota Opera, will be one of the few top woman artistic leaders in the opera world.

Dennis Cunningham: The last catch

April 14, 2021

Sue Taylor considers the work of Dennis Cunningham, whose deft linocuts of Oregon fishing reflect the fabric of life in the state. Cunningham died last week.

Yachats Celtic Fest plans for fall

March 16, 2021

The music fest, which lost its 20th season last year to the pandemic, plans to start again in '21 – if restrictions are eased in time.

My few brief minutes with Christopher Plummer

February 6, 2021

Veteran Portland actor Tobias Andersen remembers talking with Plummer about how to play Prospero.

Portraits of both sides: An interview with a protest photographer

January 28, 2021

Rian Dundon has been photographing Oregon protests since 2019. Blake Andrews gets the lowdown on his busy year.

Art on the walls, violence in the Capitol

January 13, 2021

The images of the insurrectionists invading the Capitol were complicated by the backdrop: the art on the walls.

Remember the uncomplicated joy

December 8, 2020

Two arts "lifers" drop a debut record in the midst of the 2020 debacle. The hard questions began to drop, too.

Coping with catastrophe

November 11, 2020

"The arts are undergoing a catastrophe. The performing arts sector, specifically, has been squashed. And, as with any tragedy, I think there are also revelations."

Painting the town: Murals meet the moment

November 10, 2020

Businesses boarded up against Covid and protests. Artists saw blank canvases. A look at very public art projects.

Horatio Law’s Urban Studies

October 18, 2020

A Portland artist and his iPhone camera create a complex portrait of a city in flux.