PICA: Out of the pandemic, into the future
Retiring Portland Institute for Contemporary Art executive director Victoria Frey and her successor, Reuben Roqueñi, discuss the venerable avant-garde arts institution’s coming transformation.
Retiring Portland Institute for Contemporary Art executive director Victoria Frey and her successor, Reuben Roqueñi, discuss the venerable avant-garde arts institution’s coming transformation.
Jamuna Chiarini considers the resilience, grit, and transcendence of Portland’s dance community in 2022.
PICA’s experimental extravaganza hits the boards again. Plus openings, from sci-fi to farce to ghosts, pajamas, book clubs, stony hearts, midsummer dreams and a mushroom hunt.
Waterfront festivals, touring jazz giants, and local musicians transmute summer into fall.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
A redesign of the ArtsWatch site brings many more options to the home page. Plus a reawakening performance scene, contemporary Japanese prints, and more.
Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik’s experimental performance “apogee” explores themes of nature and intuition.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
PICA’s TBA:21 Festival featured a diary-like, released-by-mail mini zine created by Eileen Isagon Skyers.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
TBA Festival: Exploring Indigenous culture, history, and memory in dance, sound, words, and images.
A dance form born in majorette lines and adopted by queer dance clubs hits the streets in Portland’s Boise neighborhood.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Whole lotta talent goin’ on; TBA takes the spotlight; license plates & movie picks & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an extraordinary dance after 9/11; Beaverton rising; can’t stop the music.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an iconic Portland cultural figure and a TV star; Art in the Pearl & more.
It’s TBA time! Amy Leona Havin checks out the literary side of PICA’s festival and other book events.
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
From Eastern Oregon to a paint-out on the coast to queer opera and TBA in Portland to the New York streets, art is where you look.
Ella Ray considers obfuscation and illegibility in Lewis’s “Water Will (In Melody)”
This year’s Time-Based Art Festival is loaded with dance events. The rest of September’s leaping with dance, too.
By PAUL MAZIAR and JESSICA CERRATO The dancers enter the theater with stately, measured grace, four women in bright costumes moving in procession, hands and bodies enjoined in a line moving in synchronous time. The dance begins en media res, with a
When making the transition to align their bodily appearance with their true identities, transgender women must learn to deal with the fact that their old voices don’t transition biologically, even with hormone treatment. One of them, New York composer Sarah Hennies, turned
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