Oscars, books, and strange things
Bob Hicks
April 29, 2021
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
At least April ended on a high note: FearNoMusic’s headliner show capped off its season brilliantly.
Author Drew Pisarra and director Jerry Mouawad talk about their radio drama “The Strange Case of Nick M.”
The Book Awards kick off a month of virtual events with Oprah, Whitney Otto, Stacey Abrams & Moby-Dick.
What did and didn’t work at the Oscars. Open-and-shut case at the theaters. Non-winners worth watching.
“Indigenous Resilience in Oregon” continues with the tale of a wood carver’s cultural connection through art.
The Oregon Book Award finalist talks about poetry collections, the Western sensibility, and his love of chapbooks.
In 30 years of covering Portland Opera, Angela Allen writes, “I’ve never seen such a compelling program.”
Port Orford author Ann Vileisis has been nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her book on the shellfish.
Broadway Rose streams “The Last Five Years,” Center Stage gets a James Baldwin mural, Bard endures Plague.
Sankar Raman of “The Immigrant Story” took up photography as a child in India. He’s been smitten ever since.
ArtsWatch’s new series asks music groups: How are you doing? How about that last Year of Weirdness? What’s next?
From a giant baby to dogs & birds, Amy Leona Havin dives into the sights & sounds of the Cadence Festival.
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.
Streamers: Skye Fitzgerald’s documentary short about the war in Yemen chronicles a struggle to aid children caught in famine.
Two glass artists in Cannon Beach’s Spring Unveiling Arts Festival collaborate to make finned figures.
Anima Mundi’s Ashland-based Heart of Humanity spring concert series stirs up some excitement.
Stage & Studio: Dmae Roberts and Portland’s arts advocate talk about Covid relief, EDI initiatives, what’s next.
The Oregon affiliate of Venezuela’s famed El Sistema education system gives diverse students access to music education
Former Oregon Ballet Theatre star Gavin Larsen’s “Being a Ballerina”: a memoir to sweep you off your feet.
It’s the top of a new day for heads in hat-happy Portland. K.B. Dixon’s street portraits show off the evidence.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
Eugene’s Oregon Composers Forum is taking its Music Today Festival online – with more than 60 new works.
In the final of a three-part series, Pat Rose talks with photographer Susan Bein abut her influences and her iPhone art.
Streamers: The indie fest rolls out a virtual and live-event 20th season with a lineup strong on documentaries.
Sue Taylor considers the work of Dennis Cunningham, whose deft linocuts of Oregon fishing reflect the fabric of life in the state. Cunningham died last week.
Part two of a three-part profile of creative Portland photographers features Laura Kurtenbach.
Pacific City author Ben Moon’s memoir, “Denali,” is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award.
Pat Rose profiles three of Portland’s most creative photographers. Part 1: Grace Weston.
How a monologue series about race, gender, and sexual identity leapt from stage to screen.
Dance on screen: It’s not the same as watching a live performance, but when theaters are shut down, it’s a balm.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
Looking forward to a wild summer where the masks start to come off and the concerts slowly start coming back.
Ready or not, movie theaters are starting to open again in time for the Oscars and summer blockbusters.
The Lincoln City Cultural Center gathers photography and items culled from the rubble of last fall’s fire near Otis.
“… Maddy called me up a year ago, and she was like, let’s start this thing. I have an idea, it’s called Renegade Opera.”
The artist’s eco prints, at the Chehalem Cultural Center, are an earthy mix of abstraction, symbolism, and collage.
Though each of the six pieces is contemporary — written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries — Geter chose somewhat established works as well as freshly minted ones…
Stage & Studio: The noted artist talks about friendships, mentoring, and the Indigenous traditions that shape her art.
Photographer K.B. Dixon focuses on National Poetry Month with portraits of half a dozen leading Oregon voices.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering Beverly Cleary, Larry McMurtry, and composer Stephen Scott; revolutions & the way things change.
Robert Ham scours Bandcamp for new local sounds and discovers multilingual hip-hop, bludgeoning metal, electronic improv & more.
Celebrating the French director Nelly Kaplan; a vivid and engaging biography of a director-of-all-trades.
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