Only an expert can solve a problem. (23. March 29, 2024, at Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon, Laurie Anderson was as provocative, brilliant, inspiring, whimsical and stylish as ever.)

Blackhawk, winner of a 2023 National Book Award for his history of Native life in the U.S. and its historical misrepresentation, speaks in the Oregon Historical Society's Hatfield Lecture series.

OSU’s new performance and exhibition space, a busy hub of activity from morning to evening, brings a chance to transform how people see the university – and it has an open house April 6.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of novelist Lydia Kiesling, actor Charles Grant, multidisciplinary artist Emily Ginsburg, photographer Thibault Roland, and writer/editor Margaret Malone.

The founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.

The Portland author’s new book about 16 Oregonians who survived atrocities ranging from the Holocaust to Rwandan genocide launches March 29 with an event at Mekong Bistro.

Five artists interpret the legendary creature in sculpture, paintings, film, and multi-media work in a show that goes beyond the popular-culture image of Bigfoot.

The 3,000-seat Keller needs replacing. What's the best choice: a new building at PSU, a new hall at a revamped Lloyd Center, or a full-scale renovation where it is now?

The busy cultural hub celebrates its 20th anniversary with a day-long party this Saturday, March 16

The new center, whose name means "butterfly," seeks to create a "microscopic utopia" for artists who are often dispossessed.

Recent productions "North" and Red Door Project’s "The Evolve Experience" highlight the Beaverton arts center’s socially responsive programming.

Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.

On March 14, tours and an open house will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the hotel that lifelong friends Goody Cable and Sally Ford took from flophouse to world famous.

The exquisite enamel artist and traveler to Bali and beyond in pursuit of her art created a legacy of storytelling and beauty.

Speaking to a Hatfield Lecture Series audience about her book "Oath and Honor," the former congresswoman talks about Putin, China, Israel/Hamas, Trump's "Big Lie" and more.

The recently-released album captures the quartet playing standards and film songs in Portland and Vancouver just before the recording of their ground-shaking classic “Time Out.”

The traveling exhibition, created by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, reminds viewers of the multiracial history of Oregon’s timber towns.

Students had a say in picking the artists whose work is featured in the artistically complex and politically engaged exhibition, which runs through March 16 at the McMinnville university.

As the Oregon dance card fills up for a busy month of movement, a performance space goes away and another springs to life.

The quirky museum includes what may be the largest glass fishing float collection in the Northwest and an exhibit about a 1930s celebration of redheads.

The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city's growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.

Exploring life’s transitions and one’s quest for self-actualization through an Afrocentric lens, new and re-staged works by Oluyinka Akinjiola, Derrel Sekou Walker and others find fellowship along the way.

In which we discuss the virtues of imperfection and risk-taking with the clarinetist, bar-owner, and Opera Theater Oregon executive director.

A bustling studio in close-in Southeast Portland is a magnet for makers of short films, music videos, commercials, and maybe even movies.

Looking at "Black Artists of Oregon" and "Africa Fashion" at the Portland Art Museum.

The exhibit, which runs through February, includes both aesthetic and pedagogical components, and has a high “wow” factor. An artists' reception will be Feb. 16.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a crossword puzzle that aims to please both the besotted and the bitterly single.

A former student recalls how the one-time University of Oregon and Oregon State professor taught generations of writers to use the techniques of drama to tell true stories.

With music and dancing and dining and a welcoming vibe, a refugee from Pol Pot's Cambodia has created a gathering place for Southeast Asians and others in greater Portland.

Finding a community model for their crowd-sourced choreography helped the Eugene dance company connect with donors, partners, and the public, and build sustainable financial support.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of jazz drummer Ron Steen, multimedia artist Pamela Chipman, musical-theater leader Sharon Maroney, filmmaker Jim Blashfield, and author and environmentalist Allison Cobb.

How Beauford Delaney’s “Twilight Street” got from 119 Waverly Place in New York’s Greenwich Village to the studio of art conservator Nina Olsson to the Portland Art Museum's walls.

The exhibition’s first iteration since the pandemic opens Feb. 1 as an invitational event and honors Henk Pander, the Northwest art giant who died last year.

Fifteen months after the death of the legendary showman and collector of rare and offbeat films, friends and colleagues are rescuing his films and bringing them back into theaters.

The Albina Music Trust celebrates its trove of recordings, photos, memorabilia, articles, and oral histories with a searchable archive and a Feb. 3 release party at Oregon Historical Society.

The vibrant musician, born in Mexico and bringing its sounds and traditions to the Northwest, has died. Dmae Lo Roberts brings back this podcast conversation with him.

The iconic conductor, composer, and music educator, back in the limelight after getting the biopic treatment, now receives the greatest honor of them all: his own ArtsWatch crossword puzzle.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take seven minutes to watch and hear the eloquence and artistry of the famous speech that helped re-set a nation's compass.

Yes, Portland's in the middle of a rare winter storm, and events are shutting down. Then again, it's a good time to slow down, take a break, reminisce and recharge.

Filming commercials for tech company Ubiquiti, actors develop their characters while navigating a disorienting, featureless world.

During the day, a family fun event featuring crayons, dance, music, and a noon ball drop. The evening before, PCO and Ortiz performed music from 19th-century Vienna.

The Eugene museum, which began with a collection of pioneer memorabilia, has evolved into a more inclusive institution.

In small towns, libraries are often the only places that host art and cultural events. Librarians say grants, such as one open this month from Oregon Humanities, are crucial to making that happen.

It was a year of building booms, an Off-Broadway triumph, a financial flop in the Legislature, a great cultural-funding divorce, AI everywhere, and a good number of artistic happy surprises.

Katherine Ace, Yaki Bergman, Margaret Chapman, Walt Curtis, Darcelle, Cai Emmons, Michael Griggs, Donald Jenkins, Henk Pander and more: Oregon arts figures who died in 2023.

From dancerly Broadway musicals to Éowyn Emerald's return to a Bantu circus, a mystical being from Buenos Aires, Linda Austin's birthday bash and more, 2024 kicks off in grand style.

Our LitWatch columnist looks back on a year of good reading, writing, and talking about books.

Graham Cole’s newest production, featuring dramatic lighting design and a joyful solo performance by Elenaluisa Alvarez, struck an incongruent note with the introspective, feminist poetry which was its inspiration.

From a magnificent dancerly takeover of Zidell Yards to a push/FOLD contemporary festival to her own solo Odissi show, our DanceWatch columnist steps deftly through a busy year.

From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.

For this dance teacher and Contact Improvisation devotee, gender and movement are fluid: “We are in constant motion—that’s life. We’re constantly evolving. We are the transition.”

In her newest podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with ArtsWatch's Bob Hicks about the cultural highs and lows of 2023, and the lingering effects of the pandemic on the arts.

From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford's 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon's year in the worlds of museums and visual art.

The 12-minute show, free and visible from the Bayfront, brings to life images of Native Americans, loggers, fishing fleets, and farmers.

Sure, it's an entertaining action flick. But its connections to Christmas are surface stuff. Go ahead: Watch it, and have fun. But when it comes to the spirit of the holiday, it doesn't fit the bill.

Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a tour of Portland's neighborhoods and discovers an impromptu people's garden of inflatable statues celebrating the holiday season.

Suggestions range from Brian Doyle's "Mink River" and a collection of speeches by former Gov. Barbara Roberts to picture books and poetry.

Breathe in, breathe out: Yes, there'll probably be disasters. But Portland therapist, astrologist, and Pushcart-nominated poet Dr. Mindy Netifee also says the "whole end of the year could be very sweet."

Get in the holiday spirit with a festive crossword puzzle for the whole family.

Through personal interviews, intergenerational research, and visual art, the Rogue Valley native is leading the Latinx community of Southern Oregon on a journey to challenge cultural stereotypes and change society.  

The Portland dance company continues their 20th anniversary season with a winter showcase of new works by five Portland-based women choreographers, including Carla Mann and Andrea Parson.

Creating the special condensed version of the holiday classic, which will premiere on December 19, is part of Artistic Director Dani Rowe’s vision for making classical dance more welcoming to a broader audience.

The Portland actor and friends are staging a one-night performance of a modern adaptation of Homer's classic Greek tale before taking it back on the road – including to prisons.

Seattle's theater companies are hoping a sleigh full of holiday shows will bring in audiences and help overcome a slow bounceback from the pandemic and a soaring cost of living.

Community organizer Nik Portela embraced The Dalles as their home, tipping the rural town's local culture toward more LGBTQIA2S+ acceptance.

Margles, the longtime executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, retires after 24 years of inspired leadership.

The weekly McMinnville gathering, like others around the state, draws participants who say they are both energized and calmed by the practice. “The primitive nature of the drum in the story of humanity,” says one drummer.

Through annual residencies in local schools, Salem native Caitlin Lynch and fellow artists give music students firsthand experience of how professional musicians collaborate to create a performance.

Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.

Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with Jerry Foster, leader of the Black theater company PassinArt, about staging Langston Hughes' gospel musical version of the Nativity story.

More nuts than you can crack a whip at, classical Indian dance, contemporary premieres, the return of "ZooZoo," five women choreographers at NW Dance Project – and even a "NOT-Cracker."

Bobby Bermea: The talented actor Lester Purry, who's created a bond with Portland Playhouse, is back in town and creating his own kind of skinflint in the Playhouse's "A Christmas Carol."

For 16 years, the center has provided cultural programs – everything from ceramics to concerts to yoga – out of the historic Delake School, but it hasn't been easy.

As the giving season moves into high gear, the state's innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups.

At the Portland Art Museum, a shining show of fashion from Africa, an energetic celebration of Black artists that feels like the start of a much bigger picture – and a third show, "Throughlines," that mixes and matches from the museum collections.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with a "special edition" featuring trailblazing women artists Lucinda Parker, Judy Cooke, Phyllis Yes, Sherrie Wolf, and Laura Ross-Paul.

Art on the Road: In Los Angeles, links to past and present, peace and war in the art of William Blake and Arthur Tress

Creating a bigger table for a more sustaining and convivial feast.

Thirty years after his death, a resilient Shoalwater Bay tribal artist has an exhibit in Astoria side by side with young tribal artists inspired by his example.

Amy Leona Havin sits down afterwards with the company’s founder and artistic director to discuss SKC’s merger with Conduit and what’s next for the contemporary dance company.

Put your best foot forward and try to solve this dance-themed crossword puzzle.

The artist's glass installation and collages on view at Adams and Ollman explore the ties that bind, both humans to one another and to the environment. Feddersen's heightened visibility in the art world fits with a larger trend of renaissance for Indigenous art.

Financial difficulties for the 1905, which has just gone out of business, raise larger questions about the history and future of jazz in Portland.

Hannah Krafcik speaks with three gender-nonconforming folks about how it is possible to feel thousands upon thousands of years old and very young all at once.

In a Southern California museum dedicated to the work of Latin American artists, a trio of exhibitions offer food for thought and a feast for the eyes.

The library has weathered budget and staff cuts, an unwieldy inventory, and the pandemic to deliver everything from books to workshops, games, and homeless outreach to the Yamhill County community of 2,200.

The two award-winning authors talked about memory, racism, and finding common ground among marginalized groups.

Many venues were near or at capacity as book-lovers flooded the South Park Blocks to listen to more than 100 speakers. And to buy books.

The Hiroshima-based artist-in-residence at the Portland Japanese Garden’s Japan Institute discusses his parallel explorations of time, place, and what lies beneath.

The embattled regional arts funding agency cuts its ties with leader Carol Tatch amid a continuing dispute with the City of Portland, The Oregonian reports.

The three poets reflect on their relationship to poetry, offer reading lists, and advise fellow poets to persist, revise, and follow their curiosities.

The novelist and National Book Award winner says, "There’s a certain brokenhearted feel to our country.... We’re going through a convulsive national division where civility itself has collapsed.”

The Turkish-born professor populates his politically charged work with images of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Allen Ginsberg and Gollum.

The popular library system is using its bond-funded resources to expand its free arts and cultural opportunities at neighborhood libraries, with the programs offered determined by the diverse communities themselves.

The nonprofit supports the Yachats Celtic Music Festival, happening Nov. 10-12, an art quilt show, a banner project, and the Yachats Arts Guild, among others.

Ready for your (virtual) date with Death? ArtsWatch's resident horror devotee scares up a few suggestions from fiction to podcasts to flicks, and explains the shuddering thrill of it all.

K.D. Dixon roams the streets of Portland with his camera in search of the odd, the eerie, the hair-raising, the ghoulish, the spectral, and the skeletal. Saints preserve us, he finds them.

The Portland-based purveyors of "new weird horror" are building a mini-empire of shock and shivers, including the novelette double feature "Split Scream" released on Halloween.

In the latest installment in the 'Gender Deconstruction' series, Hannah Krafcik talks with Oregon Coast resident Daphne Sprinkle about transfeminine identity and community embrace.

The Sempoashochitl Festival, in honor and celebration of Día de los Muertos and the glories of the marigold, brings a whirl of traditional dance, art, music and remembrance.