2024: A Year in Review

Turning the page: Looking back on ’24 and ahead to ’25

From construction projects at the Portland Art Museum and elsewhere to tight budgets and uncertainty about money to tales about Portland's Black music history and a puppet museum and a giant pumpkin regatta, Oregon's arts world presses ahead.

Passages: Remembering the artists we lost in 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: A few of my favorite (theatrical) things

Oregon theaters offered us an abundance of blissful, moving and mind-altering moments in 2024, and DramaWatch columnist and reviewer Linda Ferguson remembers her favorites.

2024 in Review: The year in dance

From story ballets to contemporary experimental works by Oregon companies and visiting troupes, it's been a year filled with the power and excitement of choreographed movement.

FilmWatch Yearly: The Top Ten Films of 2024

Marc Mohan shares his picks for this year's ten best films.

2024 in Review: New avenues for Portland’s literary hubs and libraries

A new home for Literary Arts, a new poet laureate, some major library remodels, an overflow of book festivals and a shelf full of new books by Oregon writers put a shine on the literary year.

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

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

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.

2024 in Review: The story of music – listening back, again

Following the theme of an intensely musical Oregon year, from parties to studios.

Last minute gift guide: 2024 Oregon Book Award winners’ favorite books for holiday giving

Josephine Woolington, Waka T. Brown, Nora Ericson, and Daniela Molnar offer suggestions ranging from picture books, to poetry, to a monthly letter of romantic, erotic stories.