The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.
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.
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.
More music than you can jingle a bell at. Sex farce at the movies, ghosts onstage, democracy in the galleries, dancing cupcakes & nutcrackers.
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.
As the holiday season begins, a time to remember, a time for thanks, a time for art and song.
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
Beyond the haunts, here come “Tosca” & other sounds, book fests, movies & nostalgia, more.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state’s art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, ‘Frida’ at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Storm Large and 3 Leg Torso make a movie, Chamber Music NW goes live, the Joy of words.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Where’s Frida; how to (maybe) reopen; farewell to Ross McKeen; puppets, comics, and more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A year into shutdown, signs of revival: Stimulus aid for the arts, museums reopening, a theater with an audience of 1 to 5.
ArtsWatch Weekly: All around Oregon, the cultural Covid freeze of 2020 begins to thaw. Will it continue?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon Symphony picks a new leader; we begin a Black-music column; finale for Fertile Ground.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Fertile Ground marches on, film fest updates, Hal Holbrook on jackasses & politics.
The veteran broadcaster and writer brings her podcast “Stage & Studio” to ArtsWatch starting Feb. 23.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A young poet and a steady voice highlight the clarity of ritual and the art of governance.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Tumbling toward Inauguration; Carrie Mae Weems’ billboard campaign; Zoomy theater.
The ups, downs, disasters, trends, outrages, and triumphs of Oregon arts & culture in a tortuous year.
Looking back: Remembering 15 Oregon arts and cultural leaders who died in the past 12 months.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Things to watch and listen to as the year ends; looking forward to 2021.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Holiday shows, making theatrical spirits bright, gallery art, new music, fresh flicks, passages.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Book Fest goes virtual; art all around; dance on film; October musical surprise.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An emergency lifeline to Oregon’s cultural sector staves off disaster. But the problem’s still urgent.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors reopen. Plus: Black & white in America, follow the money, is the “new normal” old?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Planning for post-Covid culture; pancakes & the art of dissent; good things come in multiples.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Black Lives Matter, Covid-19 are reshaping the arts world.
The museum plans to begin a phased reopening in July – and also announces a big round of layoffs.
Portland’s visual history looks to expand; grants for artists; Chinatown Museum reschedules exhibitions .
As schools shut down, arts teachers in Lane County shift online and take the art to kids across 16 districts.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The pandemic is the puzzle. Adaptability is the key. Unlocking the cultural world’s future.
Covid-19-inflected arts news: Literary Arts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BodyVox, The Old Church, more.
The Portland philanthropist, gallery pioneer, and art collector helped shape the city’s cultural scene.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In Oregon arts & culture, COVID-19 changes the game. Everything’s shifting and uncertain.
Leanne Grabel and Breads & Roses, FisherPoets and the song of the sea. Plus dance, drama, sight, sound.
A working-class ‘Tightrope,’ combative plays, Southern rites: America goes to battle with itself.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
Vision 2020, new/old Five Oaks Museum, Second Winter music, blood sweat & fears onstage, storm of the (last) century.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
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