Living in a world of upside down
Bob Hicks
April 30, 2020
ArtsWatch Weekly: The pandemic is the puzzle. Adaptability is the key. Unlocking the cultural world’s future.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The pandemic is the puzzle. Adaptability is the key. Unlocking the cultural world’s future.
Friderike Heuer’s montage series based on George Tooker’s art raises timely questions of who lives or dies.
Voices from the front: Philanthropist Ronni Lacroute says COVID-19 is forcing arts groups to think in new ways.
Examining the New Flesh. Staying home and slaying dragons. Running on a treadmill. It’s corona time.
On Monday, April 27, Governor Kate Brown named Anis Mojgani as Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate. Mojgani, whose two-year appointment begins May 4, succeeds Kim Stafford, who has held the post since 2018. In a press release Brown praised Mojgani as “the pragmatic
Covid-19-inflected arts news: Literary Arts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BodyVox, The Old Church, more.
Mourning the passing of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose music processes trauma.
Can we move forward when our government can’t test, trace or isolate us? The processes of artists can show us how.
An online exhibition at Chehalem Cultural Center explores artistic responses to COVID-19.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Is it real, or is it Memorex? Amid the crisis, the arts world swims somewhere in between.
Klamath-Modoc artist/activist Ka’ila Farrell-Smith on how the pandemic can lead to big structural change.
Brett Campbell gets down with the beat at home with a stack of recent Oregon jazz recordings.
Lincoln City’s Nora Sherwood left a career in geographic information to become a natural science illustrator.
Major foundations join forces to create the $1.3 million Oregon Arts and Culture Recovery Program.
As the “real” museums shut down. K.B. Dixon tours the city’s murals and discovers a free exhibit on the streets.
How are big arts groups handling the pandemic? Portland Center Stage’s Cynthia Fuhrman takes it step by step.
The new design magazine Joon celebrates Portland, from funeral homes to food carts.
McMinnville’s Third Street Books rides out COVID-19 with home deliveries, curbside pickup, and mail order.
With stages shut down, the work’s stopped cold. Performing artists wonder: Can the fire be relighted?
Creative Quarantine provides activity kits for kids and online entertainment for adults.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As coronavirus reshapes the world, our virtual and physical realities begin to overlap.
Music in the Time of Pandemic: Turn off the web, put on an album, close your eyes, and listen.
Even without a pandemic, middle school can be stressful. Create More, Fear Less channels that anxiety into art.
After retiring from his last teaching job, at Eugene’s Spencer Butte Middle School, Paul Bodin “wanted to see what it was like to be a student again.” And he wanted to explore the music that had enchanted him since childhood but had
In Eugene, the legendary Russian pianist Lazar Berman made his choice. Now you can decide for yourself.
As the pandemic empties the city’s center, a paean to the rhythm that has always given Portland a time of solitude.
Shut down by the pandemic, the Portland Art Museum puts 80 percent of its staff on unpaid leave.
Relief efforts for artists affected by income loss from the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting crash of the economy continue. More is needed.
We talked to Brian Rogers, who leads the state’s arts services organizations, about current conditions and some help on the way.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As we enter an uncertain future, new art is in the making – and old art shifts with the times.
When Roger Saydack lived on a bare bones graduate student budget at the University of Oregon in the mid-1970s, the only way he could afford to hear classical music live was what’s now called the Oregon Bach Festival’s Discovery Series concerts. Following
Antler Gallery virtually features works that celebrate quirkiness and whimsy by Tripper Dungan, Lori Damiano, and Kim Slate.
Bijou Theatre’s Betsy Altomare met plenty of musicians when she worked for Tower Records.
Combine a pandemic and an economic crisis and you get the dragon. How do you fight it? With songs and strategies, poems and music. You wait the dragon out.
The Portland philanthropist, gallery pioneer, and art collector helped shape the city’s cultural scene.
Stung by coronavirus-shutdown losses, the museum will make deep staff cuts next week.
Fiber artists explore the toll plastics are taking on the oceans in a Chehalem Cultural Center exhibit.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As the arts world fractures and reinvents itself, finding new ways to bring it all back home.
As online orders keep the great gathering spot going, a look back on its glory days and hope for their return.
Manzanita’s Hoffman Center responds to the coronavirus shutdown by asking artists to take part in a virtual show.
No fooling, no fake news: an imaginative leap into a possible musical future.
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