Saturday, May 26

What Exactly Happens In Portland's Heathman Hotel In 50 Shades of Grey?

Arts & Books We've now had 72 hours to absorb the terrible news that scenes in "mommy porn" novel 50 Shades of Gr... More

May 25, 2012 01:44 pm by Aaron Mesh | Comments 4

Literary Giant Dies In Oregon

Arts & Books Paul Fussell was a great writer and scholar and, in the three years before his death yesterday, an O... More

May 24, 2012 11:14 am by COREY PEIN | Comments 1

Andy Baio Announces the XOXO Festival

Can he bring Etsy, 4Chan and Kickstarter to Portland?

Arts & Books Andy Baio is one of Portland's most influential geeks. The former Chief Technology Officer of Kickst... More

May 22, 2012 03:17 pm by Ruth Brown | Comments 0

Shy Zine Writer Thrust Halfway Into Limelight

Arts & Books Over at Slate today, editor Dan Kois publishes an interview with "Zach," the heretofore anonymous au... More

May 10, 2012 04:23 pm by Corey Pein | Comments 0

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Laura Ross-Paul at Froelick Gallery

Hang up and look!

Visual Arts “Live in fragments no longer,” E.M. Forster urged in Howards End. “Only connect.” Today, 102 years after the novel was published, we increasingly connect by tweeting, streaming and texti More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Tom Cramer at Laura Russo

Green and gold.

Visual Arts If the Playboy Mansion were plopped down into the forests of Middle-earth and redecorated by Donald Trump, it would probably wind up looking and feeling like Tom Cramer’s woodsy, sensual fanta More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

John Faier’s Queen of Heaven

Death be a little pretty.

Visual Arts Oh, how we love to tart up death! Out with the blood, in with the embalming fluid, pancake the face, rouge the cheeks, and suddenly Grandma looks 10 years younger than when she died! The pervers More

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Double Encrypted

Ryan Wilson Paulsen and Anna Gray’s artistic monogamy at Disjecta’s Biennial.

Visual Arts It’s an image that could keep you up at night: a young man, his wife, and their child lay atop the bolted entrance to a family crypt. The parents’ eyes are closed as the child rests limply on More

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Attraction and Repulsion At Cock Gallery

New gallery goes where the sun don’t shine.

Visual Arts Picasso drew and painted plenty of sphincters in his perverse erotic fantasias, but the necessary but generally unglamorous muscle doesn’t get a lot of face time in fine art—not even in nudes. More

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Margaret Evangeline, Shooting Through The Looking Glass

She shoots, she scores!

Visual Arts Think of Margaret Evangeline as the Annie Oakley of the art world. The New York City-based artist creates her trademark abstractions by shooting stainless steel panels with handguns, shotguns an More

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit at Blue Sky

Needle, camera, damage done.

Visual Arts It is a gorgeous, heartbreaking image: A woman shooting heroin into her bruised leg while her boyfriend and a friend’s child sit beside her on a bed. As it turns out, she is baby-sitting the boy More

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Aluminum and Nothing

Joe Thurston is ready for the floor.

Visual Arts In two riveting, wildly different shows this month, one artist known for sculpture makes a jump to wall pieces while another artist known for wall pieces leaps onto the floor with a haunting ser More

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

YU Changed

Great expectations fall short.

Visual Arts Fledgling arts organization YU Contemporary announced last week that director Sandra Percival was suddenly leaving her post after less than two years at the helm. YU co-founders Curtis Knapp and F More

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 RICHARD SPEER

Body Gesture: A Group Exhibition of Feminist Art

Visual Arts A feminist art show might strike some as a stale proposition at this late date. Then again, with chauvinist-chic TV shows (Mad Men, Pan Am, The Bachelor) all the rage, maybe it’s perfect timing for More

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 RICHARD SPEER