PAM puts a hole in the wall
Bob Hicks
January 20, 2023
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
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The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, beset by pandemic and environmental troubles, slashes leadership and other jobs – and Artistic Director Nataki Garrett adds more duties.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
Remembering the many Oregon arts and cultural figures who died in 2022, from music to dance to stage to screen to literary figures and more.
From Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to vaccine wars to street protests and racial reckonings, the art world responds to the world at large.
Around Oregon, a fresh crop of arts leaders move into top spots. In part, it’s a generational shift.
Oregon’s unique Cultural Tax Credit can double your donation to arts and cultural groups. Deadline for this year’s gifts is Dec. 31.
British harpsichordist and early-music champion Julian Perkins will succeed violinist Monica Huggett as artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Susannah Mars at Wilf’s, a little Batucada samba, Imago’s “ZooZoo” menagerie, M&F “Santaland” nostalgia at the history museum.
The Portland developer was a longtime trustee of the Portland Art Museum and a key figure in transforming the North Park Blocks into a gallery and museum district.
Jazz and world music composer Cherry and contemporary classical composer Svoboda left their marks in Portland and around the world.
Two big gifts aid the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five Portland groups; new faces at the Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission; a leadership incubator wants you.
Oregon Ballet Theatre picks veteran arts administrator Shane Jewell. Also: Good reviews for Katherine Dunn’s novel “Toad”; a 92nd birthday bash for Darcelle.
Immigrant stories in “I Am an American Live”; Chinatown Museum; a trip to Paris Photo; a farewell to Gwyneth Gamble Booth, Native American Arts & Salmon Festival.
Plus: Blackfish Gallery’s big moving sale, remembering cartoonists Sempé and Booth, what’s next for Portland’s elk fountain and statue.
The weather may be gloomy but Lindsay Costello has plenty of art offerings and happenings to brighten up the shorter days.
A well-loved painter, printmaker and teacher whose career spanned more than 70 years, Johanson kept creating art deep into his 90s.
Nyback, who has died at 69, toured his collections of old films internationally and once owned the Clinton Street Theatre.
The Sitka Art Invitational shifts to Oregon Contemporary. New art at City Hall celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day. Vandals trash an Indigenous coffee shop and its art.
Hatton had led the orchestra for a dozen years. Plus: A memorial concert for PSU’s Mary Hall Kogen, radio raves, more music news.
From Portland to Ashland to Philomath to Washington, Yamhill and Clark counties, artists open their studios for free tours.
The showcase reels ’em in: About 100 regional, national, and international films from 1,600 submissions, available both in-person and virtually.
A PSU choir’s link to Leonard Cohen’s most famous song; a Covid cancellation; Afro-Topia Pop-Up; remembering Hilary Mantel & Louise Fletcher; Corey Brunish & “The Music Man.”
New artistic director Jeanette Harrison brings a commitment to a diversity of voices to Portland’s second largest theater company.
The Nov. 5 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is back to full in-person programming with 80 writers and presenters.
Xuan Cheng, principal dancer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, is the new principal dancer and ballet mistress for Hong Kong Ballet. She’ll split the next year between Hong Kong and Oregon.
Art for Labor Day, remembering writer Barbara Ehrenreich and actor Gary Brickner-Schulz, Profile Theatre’s post-theft helping hands, a final week for the biennial.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
A consideration of Chamber Music Northwest’s five-week summer festival.
The old school bus, which brings art to kids along the central coast, gets a vibrant re-do and becomes a work of art itself.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” living under a death threat since 1989, is stabbed onstage in western New York. Grievously injured, he remains a profile in courage.
The Oregon Community Foundation’s grants to arts and cultural projects range from $17,000 to $100,000 in Portland, Warm Springs, Phoenix, and Eugene.
Hopes for revival after a beloved neighborhood movie house burns; a crime movie pays off; small gems to stream from student filmmakers.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
Maryhill Museum’s “Exquisite Gorge II” throws a party. Who is and isn’t getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist’s child faces a health crisis.
Street art abounds on the city’s walls – sometimes sanctioned, sometimes not. Is it time for Portland to join the “Free Walls” movement?
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
A surge in cases causes cancellations and postponements of events. Plus: The NEA looks at artists in the workplace; summer concerts in a barn; at museums, free is a very good price.
From the father of modern Ukraine literature to the missing statues in Portland’s Park Blocks, a battle brews over history and the stories we tell.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Carley, 72, was a guiding force for the Portland Black theater company for 40 years and a deeply admired figure in the city’s arts and nonprofit worlds.
The festival, which starts Thursday, includes musical chestnuts as well as concerts benefiting Ukrainian relief and “Ourland,” a modern, dystopian opera.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
McMenamins 39th birthday beer is actually an IPA, but its
ingredients include a long swig of West Coast history.
The museum, a thriving cultural hub on the Oregon coast, is more than ever asking its audience to consider how the past shapes the future.
After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we’ve been missing.
The Portland and New York producer wins his fourth Tony Award, for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”
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