Lloyd DeWitt’s first shows as curator of European and American Art Pre-1930 at the Portland Art Museum offer crowd-pleasing beauty and deep questions about what museums and audiences look for in art.
Try your luck at this art-themed crossword puzzle that’s sure to leave a lasting impression.
The shoes in ‘Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks’ are visually intriguing and push the boundaries of what constitutes a shoe. Laurel Reed Pavic has questions about arch support.
June brings new beginnings with warmer weather and an array of art opportunities. Raylee Heiden rounds up both indoor and “plein air” options.
The 2024 session improves on a dismal ’23 session for the arts, with allocations for several large organizations, less for smaller ones, and an unwelcome surprise for the High Desert Museum.
Looking at “Black Artists of Oregon” and “Africa Fashion” at the Portland Art Museum.
As greater Portland’s arts and cultural system continues a slow structural evolution, a gathering at PSU hears information but not yet the shape of a completed plan.
How Beauford Delaney’s “Twilight Street” got from 119 Waverly Place in New York’s Greenwich Village to the studio of art conservator Nina Olsson to the Portland Art Museum’s walls.
It was a year of building booms, an Off-Broadway triumph, a financial flop in the Legislature, a great cultural-funding divorce, AI everywhere, and a good number of artistic happy surprises.
From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford’s 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon’s year in the worlds of museums and visual art.
At the Portland Art Museum, a shining show of fashion from Africa, an energetic celebration of Black artists that feels like the start of a much bigger picture – and a third show, “Throughlines,” that mixes and matches from the museum collections.
The newly renovated theater on SE Division Street opens its doors to the public November 3 with a live appearance by David Byrne.
The delightful vagueness of the term abstract means that it is a perfect binder for many of October’s art offerings. Also this month, Portland Open Studios celebrates its 25th anniversary and the Sitka Art International celebrates its 29th year.
From Portland’s museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.
The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.
The Portland Art Museum’s redesigned, glass-ensconced addition, due to open in summer 2025, will make viewing easier and could be a boon to an ailing downtown.
A Multnomah Arts Center exhibit of work by Black Northwest artists delves into the past to create a celebration of Black creativity in the present.
Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase’s 129-year history.
Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum’s assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an “evening” with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.
As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.
As “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opens at the Portland Art Museum, co-director Mark Gustafson and animation chief Brian Hansen talk about the making of the Oscar-winning movie.
Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.
The possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence dominate headlines. Hito Steyerl’s 2019 work, now on view at PAM, probes AI’s capacities in art and narrative.
In which we present a selection of Fee Free Friday albums–and timely concerts–featuring Y La Bamba, Caroline Shaw, Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Andy Akiho.
New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
As the city struggles to regain its footing, K.B. Dixon’s series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
For roughly a century, Portland Art Museum has been one of the city’s most prominent landmarks. But how much of its history do you really know?
Don’t miss Lindsay Costello’s gathering of February’s most enticing art exhibitions and events. There’s augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
January’s art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what’s on view in this month’s VizArts Monthly.
The exhibitions “Dakota Modern: the Art of Oscar Howe” and “Jeffrey Gibson: They Come from Fire” offer interrelated reflections on identity and the historical record. Laurel Reed Pavic reviews.
The Portland developer was a longtime trustee of the Portland Art Museum and a key figure in transforming the North Park Blocks into a gallery and museum district.
The weather may be gloomy but Lindsay Costello has plenty of art offerings and happenings to brighten up the shorter days.
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
Lindsay Costello has the scoop on July’s art offerings in Portland and around the state.
Hannah Krafcik speaks with Takahiro Yamamoto about the creation of his latest performance work.
Yamamoto’s quietly stunning work of dance at the Portland Art Museum begs to be widely seen.
The pieces from the museum’s Rasmussen Collection of Native American Art, taken from their Alaska homes in the 1930s, are given back.
Summer is here! Time for graduations, picnics, and quality outdoor time. Lindsay Costello rounds up June’s art offerings.
The best part of “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” is in the museum’s Schnitzer Sculpture Court, before you enter the exhibition.
What’s up with the film center’s relationship with the Portland Art Museum and its sharp but uncertain shift in direction? It’s complicated – and not everyone’s happy about that.
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
The secret to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.
Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris of the Oregon School for the Deaf wins the Poetry Out Loud state title; new at the art museum; downtown art space trashed.
The stars show up, a cinemonster crashes the party at Tuesday night’s Cinema Unbound Awards – and the film center forges a new identity.
The Film Center honors a “Portlandia” progenitor and other trailblazers; the Cascade Festival of African Films begins, Tim Roth quietly shines.
The story of a long-lost Tony Award and how, with a little Oregon help, it finally got replaced. Plus big grants, awards, leadership shifts, and some “Slow Looking” at art.
New year, new art! Lindsay Costello has the scoop on January’s art offerings.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
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