Visual Arts The great faces of historical portrait painting are embedded in our collective unconscious like ghosts in a psychic family album: Titian’s Man With a Glove, Thomas Gainsborough’s dewy The ...   More

Visual Arts It may have been the quietest First Friday opening ever: hushed gallery-goers huddled in a darkened room, watching Kelly Rauer’s high-definition video installation, Shaping Sequence. The piece h ...   More

Visual Arts Northwest artists love wood. For good and ill, from old-growth forests to the ethical and environmental complexities of the modern logging industry, wood in its many forms lies deep within the region& ...   More

Visual Arts There is a strain of Northwest artist who finesses the line between biological symbolism and painterly abstraction. The preeminent exemplars, Jaq Chartier and John Dempcy, live not in Portland but in ...   More

Books The May 2 fire that burned down Great Northwest Bookstore, where Walt Curtis lived in the basement, destroyed the Portland poet and painter’s possessions and archives but reminded the community ...   More

Music [We're having some problems with the audio plugin/hosting at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Ed.] ]Portland vocalist/songwriter Alyssa Palmer's dreamy vocals have floated atop the soundscapes of local electronica group Phutureprimitive and also rocketed her first single, “Fa...   More

Visual Arts The collages and assemblages in Jascha Owens’ Paper Trails look like something the cat dragged in. With their jumbled cardboard panels, tattered paper and clumps of hair, glue, charcoal and coff ...   More

Visual Arts More than ever, we live in two or more worlds at once. We’re on the beach but on the cellphone. We’re at a show blogging our impressions of the show. It’s no longer acceptable to jus ...   More

Visual Arts In his photographs, as in his films, Gus Van Sant is a prince of indeterminacy. The computer-manipulated images that make up his art show Cut-ups at PDX Contemporary are suffused with a woozy, synesth ...   More

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What a difference a venue makes. After a multi-year run in the oppressively cheesy Oregon Convention Center, the Cascade AIDS Project's annual fundraising e...   More