From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.
As the theater season shifts into high gear, Center Stage’s “Hair” marches to the beat of 1968’s drum and a host of other shows hit the stage.
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.
April pushes us further into spring and there’s plenty of art to see all over the state. VizArts Monthly has recommendations for everything from paintings to recycled fabrics to suspended plant matter.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell’Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.
In “Celilo, Never Silenced,” the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton’s new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
A fresh exhibit of the late Oregon artist’s multifaceted work suggests the many masks and guises that create identity.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
Sebastian Zinn reviews Storm Tharp and Grace Kook-Anderson’s exhibition of Northwest portraits from PAM’s permanent collection.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
A fundraiser auctions a Rick Bartow sketch and the 14th annual “Au Naturel” show opens in Astoria.
The visual arts stories at ArtsWatch this year ranged far and wide and – as usual – didn’t even come close to covering all that went on in the world of Oregon art. While some may see that as a failure, we
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Photos by JOE CANTRELL A collection of seventeen drawings by the late Oregon artist Rick Bartow, From the Heart: Author Drawings by Rick Bartow, is on view through September 29 in the Upstairs Gallery of the Newport Visual Arts Center, and it
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