Musician/educator Mary-Sue Tobin premieres new music based on classroom experiences as she joins musicians Alan Jones, Darrell Grant, Domo Branch, and others at the 10th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival.
The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.
Local production of Nico Muhly’s opera brings complex emotions and conflicting points of view to Lincoln Hall.
The biennial features the work of local, national, and international artists at venues across the city. The opening festivities August 24-27 included performances, events, parties, and openings galore. Georgina Ruff reviews.
The city’s plan to go its own way on arts funding and policy is “a huge mistake” that doesn’t have to happen, the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Carol Tatch writes.
The city commissioner speaks out on charting Portland’s future: increasing investments in arts, culture, and music.
Renegade Opera’s artistic director, Danielle Jagelski, talks about the company’s beginnings, its approach to opera, and its upcoming production, “Adam’s Run.”
The 27th annual Art in the Pearl festival highlights Portland’s Labor Day Weekend. Plus, art around Oregon in Astoria, Eugene, and The Dalles.
Director Maite Alberdi’s documentary chronicles the plight of a Chilean journalist with Alzheimer’s and his caregiving wife.
Mobile venue SoundsTruck NW hosted an improv-based concert co-sponsored by IRCO and Montavilla Jazz.
A conversation with the Nasalrod bassist and DIY label chief.
Converge 45 brings a suite of compelling shows to Portland-area art spaces and there is plenty to see around the state as well. Jason N. Le has the intel on September’s art events.
The singer and guitarist performed a sizzling set of jazz standards and pop classics at Portland’s struggling jazz club.
The McMinnville plumber taught himself to paint by watching YouTube tutorials during the pandemic. This fall, he’s teaching classes at Back Door Studio.
As the fall performance season approaches, there’s still time to catch some of the best dance summer has to offer, including performances by Linda Austin, NW Dance Project, B. Movement Project, and more.
Organizers say this weekend’s show aims not only to feature local and regional bands, but also to draw national bands to the city’s growing music scene.
Authors appearing around the state include Ann Patchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Casey Parks, Paulann Petersen, and others with names not beginning with P.
The Toledo Art Walk over Labor Day weekend epitomizes the city’s arts-centric focus, built largely on the legacy of painter Michael Gibbons.
The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel “Mala Noche” was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland’s poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
In a tiny Southeast Portland space, a lean and lively actors’ theater is emerging. Up next, “52 Pick-up.” Also: openings and last chances.
The Portland academy’s live multimedia performance tribute to the Talking Heads film incorporates original work by students with disabilities.
The Portland artist’s stack of birds in The Reser’s plaza brings something special to the Converge 45 biennial: a touch of joy.
Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.
The new-music flutist joins an extensive roster of musicians at four concerts on the coast.
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.
OrpheusPDX’s production of American composer Nico Muhly’s contemporary chamber opera explores women’s complicated relationship with their religion — and each other.
Also opening: “Aurora’s Sunrise,” “Bank of Dave,” “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.,” and “Ignore Heroes – The True Sounds of Liberty.”
As the festival winds up, a pair of concerts at Archery Summit and Sokol Blosser wineries create a tasty blend of new and old sounds.
The Tualatin resident will be joined next month by 12-year-old poet Thomas Fitzgerald in a reading benefiting HORSES on the Ranch in Prineville.
The Cascadia Composers founder leaves a legacy in music and more.
At Russo Lee Gallery, an Indigenous artist’s images suggest a “green colonialism” in which extraction of minerals for new technology once again overrides tribal rights.
Book review: K.B. Dixon on the celebrity portraits by a “poor working-class clod from nowhere (who) grows up to be a famous London photographer hobnobbing with cinematic royalty.”
“The fundamentals of the economy are getting stronger, but people are still skittish” – and theater companies are suffering for it. Plus: Anonymous Theatre plays Pirate.
“How Can You Own the Sky? A Symphonic Poem Honoring Native Wisdom” tells the story of the forced march of Native Americans from the Rogue Valley to the Coast.
In the first of two summer productions, OrpheusPDX staged a gender-bent version of “Il Re Pastore.”
Plus: “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” the films of animator Ishu Patel, and Pietro Marcello’s “Scarlet.”
The city’s decision breaks the vision laid out by the late Commissioner Nick Fish, Dr. Mitchell argues, and harms smaller and more diverse arts groups.
Martin Cooper’s new film at Cinema 21 tells the stories of innovative Portland animators Jim Blashfield, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Zak Margolis, Joan C. Gratz and Chel White.
Financial problems stemming in part from the pandemic, an expensive construction project, lack of expected state funding and a national slump in theater attendance force a drastic step.
Ownership of the longtime Black arts center is transferred, and PassinArt Theatre will become a major decision-maker.
Using body casts, human hair, and melted aluminum, new work by Kate Simmons at Clackamas Community College’s Alexander Gallery explores ideas about body image and decay.
Michelangelo, Monteverdi, the Medicis, and more: travel back in time to Renaissance Italy in Daryl Browne’s August crossword puzzle.
Broadway Rose’s production of the Rodgers + Hammerstein musical adds a light touch of depth to some scintillating singing and knockout costumes.
The Portland actress takes on the multiple challenges of Samuel Beckett’s Winnie – in an old Victoria’s Secret at the Lloyd Center mall.
Thanks to the efforts of local artists, the popular annual festival will welcome art lovers once again.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the celebrated actress and playwright, who will be in Portland for PassinArt Theatre’s Pacific NW Multicultural Festival Aug. 17-20.
The fourth in the festival’s new music series featured new-but-not-too-new music by Alistair Coleman, Aiden Kane and Kian Ravaei, performed by the Viano Quartet.
Moments to remember from this year’s festival of chamber music.
Jeff Rutherford’s first feature captures the quiet melancholy of a father and son amid the stark landscape of Central Oregon.
In partnership with CONVERGE 45, The Reser presents art with pointed questions and an international outlook by Jorge Tacla, Karl LeClair, Malia Jensen and Miroslav Lovric.
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