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ArtsWatch Weekly: A season of strong women

From Imogen Cunningham to the Brontë sisters to the new NEA chief and more, women take the holiday-season cultural spotlight.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Tiny Tims and klezmer clarinets

At the airport, a cultural banner flies high. At the art museum, the Nabis put on a show. At the movies, remakes happen. In Ashland and Newport, art starts over.

ArtsWatch Weekly: It’s beginning to sound a lot like …

More music than you can jingle a bell at. Sex farce at the movies, ghosts onstage, democracy in the galleries, dancing cupcakes & nutcrackers.

ArtsWatch Weekly: To Gogh, or Not To Gogh?

Inside an "immersive art" extravaganza. Plus: Philip Cuomo and other deaths in the family, Indigenous culture and the future, talking with Willy Vlautin, what's up in December.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Cranberries, Guccis, immersive Van Gogh

As the holiday season begins, a time to remember, a time for thanks, a time for art and song.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Oceania in Oregon – whose story is it, anyway?

A festival by and for Asian American/Pacific Islanders. Music for the holidays. Lighting the theatrical Fuse. 9,000 years of Oregon art. Wrapping up the Book Fest.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Adventures in a wild & woolly week

Theatrical barbecue, skeleton piano, down on the sheep farm, Troubles in Belfast, schools & Congress, bustle of books, a galaxy far far away.

ArtsWatch Weekly: November roars in like a lion

A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.

ArtsWatch Weekly: A little boo! and what looks new

Beyond the haunts, here come "Tosca" & other sounds, book fests, movies & nostalgia, more.

ArtsWatch Weekly: ArtsWatch gets a brand new look

A redesign of the ArtsWatch site brings many more options to the home page. Plus a reawakening performance scene, contemporary Japanese prints, and more.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Full dance card

Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon's cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.

ArtsWatch Weekly: Starting again

Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival's under way.

October gets in the swing of things

ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors swing open on live shows, PDX/NYC Tony connection, monthly guides & more.

It’s showtime again. Got space?

ArtsWatch Weekly: A building boom for the arts, cryptocurrency & art, Black operas, Latin film fest, aiding Yulia.

Got talent: A toast to Jimmie & Storm

ArtsWatch Weekly: Whole lotta talent goin' on; TBA takes the spotlight; license plates & movie picks & more.

Eiko, Koma & 9/11; Beaverton rising

ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an extraordinary dance after 9/11; Beaverton rising; can't stop the music.

To Anne Hughes and Ed Asner

ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an iconic Portland cultural figure and a TV star; Art in the Pearl & more.

Backflips: Sudden spring of stories

ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.

Remembering Ernie Casciato

ArtsWatch Weekly: In praise of the beloved actor and teacher, dead at 67. Plus: Healing art, stage & screen, more.

OBT: Change partners and dance

ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.

Beach Boys bingo: We get around

ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.

Sing a song of Dante

ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about "Lorelei," creative laureates & more.

Tim & Samie: A rare partnership

ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin's stamp of approval; more.

Live shows & Hunter Biden’s art

ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star's big art gift.

A century of Oregon painters

ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state's art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more

Chamber music comes out to play

ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.

Sweltering days & shady places

ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, 'Frida' at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.

Getting better all the time. Right?

ArtsWatch Weekly: Billionaires & struggling artists; the way we look at things; Metallica & the symphony.

What you see & what you get

ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony's new chief; more.

$1.1 million for poets laureate

ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.