ArtsWatch Weekly: Keep the stories coming
Bob Hicks
November 21, 2019
An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
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An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
Work begins on the $51 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a long-held dream for the city’s center-in-the-making.
Portland Book Fest turns the page, downtown gets a new museum, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like … already?
Frankenstein, Día de Muertos, tribute bands, dinosaurs, warps & wefts, a Dope Elf: Welcome to the art week.
Women & Shakespeare, Roger Kukes’ stories in paint, Día de Muertos, prison tales, “Butterfly” time.
In the Northwest, images of horror and hope – plus a West Side story and a divine voice.
From Scheharazade spinning stories to a 6-year-old spinning a galaxy, a whirl of Oregon creative life.
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
The mirror crack’d: Art ripped from the anxieties and tensions of an unruly world at large.
Autumn settles in swiftly across Oregon, and with it the rhythms of a new cultural season.
From Eastern Oregon to a paint-out on the coast to queer opera and TBA in Portland to the New York streets, art is where you look.
As the contemporary arts festival surges onto an already bulging calendar, that is the question.
Plus: It’s a print in the Gorge, a paint-out at the coast, dance for a prince, a Woody Guthrie opera. The week in Oregon arts.
SEVENTY YEARS AGO ON MAY 30 FLOODWATERS SWEPT IN from the Columbia River and burst through a 200-foot section of dike just north of Portland, inundating the city of Vanport, killing 15 people and wiping the city off the face of the Earth. Vanport was Oregon’s
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