PORTLAND & OREGON ART

News, reviews and events on the visual arts

We catch up with some current and recent arts news items around town Full story »

Friends help out Walt Curtis, who lost much of his art and personal possessions in the Great Northwest Bookstore fire Full story »

Take a stroll through the exhibit "Motherlode," which gathers the work of seven women artists in The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and you'll begin to suspect there are as many kinds of motherhood as there are mothers. Full story »

Two shows at PDX Contemporary Art and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art prompt a look at the Portland-based filmmaker's artistic roots. Full story »

An 18-year-old operating agreement, the Memorial Coliseum, and a winding and weary public process make for an intriguing narrative as the city tries to revitalize the Rose Quarter. Full story »

The 21st annual art auction presented by the Cascade AIDS Project amps up the atmosphere and spectacle to raise some money for a great cause Full story »

The Oregonian's art critic writes about his other passion, rowing.  Full story »

Gabriel Liston invites the public into his private lair at The New American Art Union  Full story »

Artist and curator Mack McFarland assembles a performance series at Performance Works NorthWest. Full story »

Curator Anna Strankman resigns from the Portland Art Museum after 26 months on the job Full story »

Miller teaches art and art appreciation to both disabled and non-disabled students and says "every artist's work is about offering a unique perspective." Full story »

Designers Randy Higgins and Nicole Misiti give Sarah Miller Meigs' vision of an artist residence and event space six years of passion and reverent thinking.  Full story »

Taking her own sweet time, patron Sarah Miller Meigs and a team of collaborators have made a private artist residency and event space that will have a profound effect on Portland cultural life Full story »

In a city with two schools of Chinese medicine and more than 500 acupuncturists in the three-county area, the metaphor of giving the city an acupuncture "treatment" has caught on.  Full story »