Let’s talk. Do we have to enumerate for you the ten-thousand reasons that you—artist, gallerist, critic, performer, collector—should be at Art Spark this Thursday? Bracing conversation, reconnecting with wayward compatriots, access/introductions to gatekeepers and/or smashing talent, news of opportunities. AND, Art Spark guest host last time ’round, Commissioner Sam Adams, reminded the assembled that we […]
ReBar Lecture
PICA and ORLO are welcoming San Francisco’s arts group ReBar for a lecture and Q & A tomorrow night, Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 PM at AIA Portland (403 NW 11th). Admission is free at the door. Reserved seating tickets available online at www.orlo.org.
ReBar probably got the most notice for projects like Park[ing] Day where […]
Portland Art Spark
One of the reasons we live here is good art made by good artists. But something happens when a city plays good host to good artists: not only do they continue to move here, they stay, make good work, and most interestingly, meet one another and one thing leads to another (that’s another another) and […]
Dimestore Alchemy Revisited: Ethan Rose at Tilt
He shares Joseph Cornell’s practice of, what the poet Charles Simic termed, “Dimestore Alchemy”: that restless drive that solders connections between seemingly dissimilar, random odds and ends, renewing and transform materials, sounds, images and experiences—igniting cast-off, forgotten things with a combustible beauty and mystery.
Loggernaut
When poet Beckman (Shade, Things Are Happening, Something I Expected to Be Different) blew through PDX a million years ago with Matthew Rohrer for Nice Hat. Thanks. (they traded lines on-the-fly) we sat up in our chairs.
Just One of Those Things: Au Revoir Affair
We were just reflecting on the fact that everything has its moment, that momentum waxes and wanes, AND that the best things that happen are thanks to extraordinary expenditures of energy from a few. We know we’re in Portland at a very good time, but we shouldn’t take a bit of it for granted. Carpe […]
The Runner
Deborah Hay
Travel to Findhorn, Scotland to commission a solo dance from legendary choreographer, performer, and dance thinker, Deborah Hay. For 11 days, Hay guides and coaches, but does not show, letting you find your own way. At the end of the residency sign a contract. It says that you will practice this solo […]
