Film Fables and Fairytales
Friderike Heuer
August 9, 2021
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
In his continuing series of portraits of Oregon artists, photographer K.B. Dixon profiles 11 outstanding writers.
After COVID and wildfires, Yaacov Bergman felt compelled to recognize the pain, as well as the courage.
As the world begins to waken, K.B. Dixon and his camera rediscover the pleasures of an arts & crafts fair.
The story of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams and Portland photographer Stu Levy.
From the symphony to baroque to jazz to Celtic to opera to a legendary luthier, an Oregon all-star team.
Blake Andrews reviews Christopher Rauschenberg’s “India Pushtogethers” exhibit on view at Nine Gallery.
Laurel Reed Pavic reviews “Ansel Adams in Our Time” on view at the Portland Art Museum.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
Yamhill County calendar: Besides the photography show, the summer promises theater, music, poetry.
The Oregon city has an LGBTQIA celebration in the park – and then the religious protesters crash the party.
Pianist Cary Lewis has a “critical heart incident” in mid-concert, and undergoes emergency surgery.
As the festival enters the home stretch, the brasses come out to play and the tango music does an encore.
The festival soars past its halfway point with a pair of shows – and violist Charles Noble’s in the middle of the mix.
As this year’s Pride Festival and Parade go (mostly) virtual, we take a pictorial stroll down memory lane.
Portland photographer Richard Brown’s new memoir depicts a colorful life of art and activism.
Saturday concerts draw the committed and curious with brass in the park and woodwinds in Beaverton.
An open-air concert lifts spirits with the sounds of Brahms and Strauss and contemporary percussionist Andy Akiho.
The series of free outdoor concerts spotlights Black and contemporary woman composers, and tango, too.
In a free outdoor show, classical bassist Colin Corner and friends have young fans dancing in a parking lot.
As the world opens up, a group of elite Oregon musicians kicks off a series of intimate outdoor concerts.
Art of the stovetop, art of the camera: a daily gift of fried eggs becomes a portfolio of variations on a theme.
As the scaled-back Rose Fest readies its Porch Parade, a tribute to the canceled Rose City Classic Dog Show.
Photographer Rich Bergeman talks with Blake Andrews about abandoned places and the pull of the past.
It’s the top of a new day for heads in hat-happy Portland. K.B. Dixon’s street portraits show off the evidence.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
In the final of a three-part series, Pat Rose talks with photographer Susan Bein abut her influences and her iPhone art.
Part two of a three-part profile of creative Portland photographers features Laura Kurtenbach.
Pat Rose profiles three of Portland’s most creative photographers. Part 1: Grace Weston.
Photographer K.B. Dixon focuses on National Poetry Month with portraits of half a dozen leading Oregon voices.
Museums and art galleries are just beginning to awake. Portland’s museum of street art has been thriving all along.
So near, and so far: K.B. Dixon turns his lens on downtown Portland, before the pandemic and the plywood.
Blake Andrews on how labor plays a starring role in Dan Nelken and Edward Pabor’s photo shows in Springfield and Eugene.
Rian Dundon has been photographing Oregon protests since 2019. Blake Andrews gets the lowdown on his busy year.
On portraits and phrenology: Meet Phil, who’s been hanging around the house and has a lot on his mind.
Blake Andrews goes into the forest, literally, with photographer David Paul Bayles and Forest Service Scientist Fred Swanson.
Smith’s photos remind us that you don’t have to scratch the surface of time TOO deeply to find Old Portland.
2020’s wildfires left the artisans of Santiam Canyon reeling. A luthier and a painter look at what comes next.
Looking back: A devastating 2020 fire leaves ashes where the Santiam Canyon and its cultural life once thrived.
To decorate, or not to decorate? K.B. Dixon and a Guy Named Will tell a winter’s tale of baubles and figurines.
Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a pandemic voyage into the rediscovered territories of home.
Nine months into shutdown, even introverts miss the bustle of the streets. A look back on the art of gathering.
Photographer/writer K.B. Dixon profiles leading gallery owners Martha Lee, Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach.
A Portland artist and his iPhone camera create a complex portrait of a city in flux.
Shining through: Astoria’s LightBox Photographic Gallery is a bright beacon in dark times.
The creators: Ten portraits by K.B. Dixon of artists who are defining what Portland and the state look like.
Photographer K.B. Dixon’s Still-Life in a Time of Sequestration, Part 3: An uncommon world of common shapes.
Concert hall? Who needs a concert hall? A classical combo rocks out in a Portland neighborhood.
Joe Cantrell and his camera pierce time and geology to discover secrets of the shape of things.
Ten portraits by K.B. Dixon of Oregon artists who are helping to define what Portland and the state look like.
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