PAM puts a hole in the wall
Bob Hicks
January 20, 2023
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
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.
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.
“Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris 1889-1900” highlights the early careers of four artists.
Art exhibitions, gallery shows, and other not-to-miss art events in December.
Lindsay Costello’s monthly column highlights some of November’s art offerings in Portland and around the state.
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an extraordinary dance after 9/11; Beaverton rising; can’t stop the music.
The virtual-reality extravaganza has bright moments, but is often brought down by … technology.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
The virtual reality competition of the Venice International Film Festival will be on view in Portland in September.
Sebastian Zinn reviews Storm Tharp and Grace Kook-Anderson’s exhibition of Northwest portraits from PAM’s permanent collection.
Portland’s former Creative Laureate Subashini Ganesan-Forbes leads a city drive to nurture art for healing.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
Director Amy Dotson is refreshing and reshaping the art museum’s movie program, from Tik-Tok to rooftops.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
The story of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams and Portland photographer Stu Levy.
Laurel Reed Pavic reviews “Ansel Adams in Our Time” on view at the Portland Art Museum.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
The Portland Art Museum has had a European collection since its founding. What does it mean to exhibit European art in Portland in 2021?
ArtsWatch Weekly: We’re emerging, but into what? The culture, and the arts world, consider the possibilities.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr’s big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
After 8 years, Dawson Carr retires as Portland Art Museum’s curator of European art. A look at his impact here.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Tumbling toward Inauguration; Carrie Mae Weems’ billboard campaign; Zoomy theater.
New art to welcome the new year! Galleries and virtual spaces alike offer a wealth of viewing opportunities for January.
The ups, downs, disasters, trends, outrages, and triumphs of Oregon arts & culture in a tortuous year.
As covid cases spike and Oregon orders new restrictions, museums are closing their doors again.
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