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Are your ears ringing? Because Lucky’s talking about you. (Thanks Modi of IDOM for the scan.) Lucky Magazine, you know, the magazine about shopping, has shopped Portland, and writer Emily Hsieh calls out a heaping dose of our favorite independent boutiques. Among those included in the piece are Amalee, Canoe, Flutter, Hazel Grayslayer (jewelry designer […]

One of the hardest working women in Portland fashion, Elizabeth Dye, designer, shop owner (The English Dept.), fashion writer, and bride’s best friend, is throwing her Spring Summer Fashion Show to coincide with The English Dept.’s (1124 SW Alder) third anniversary on Friday, May 9 at 7 PM. It’s not a huge space so RSVP […]

One of Portland’s most interesting architects has been doing loads of work elsewhere…including New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, the Seattle Art Museum expansion, and the Clyfford Still Museum, but for those of us in Portland who don’t work in the Wieden + Kennedy building he designed, the closest we’ve been to his work lately was a beautiful show of his process drawings at PDX Contemporary Art.

Yes, can we please have idea-based adornment?
Squint your eyes and enamel pins from the Space Needle, the Girl Scouts, the Rotary Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution all blur into color and form on the nearest lapel. Like a bumper sticker for your clothes, they signify identification, status, history (where been, what seen).
A-Z […]

Tonight opens the next chapter in several overlapping stories. TJ Norris’ INFINITUS is both the next in the Couture series of exhibitions at New American Art Union and the third installation in Norris’ Tribryd series. It is also the first solo show in two years from an artist who has been an active and visionary […]

“Tram,” Katherine Bovee
We’ve been thinking a lot about history, particularly art history, how it is that we now what we now about the people, the work, and events we know about. It’s so interesting to look at not the artists but the selectors: gallerists, curators, collectors, influencers, writers. He painted it, she talked about […]