AFFAIR AT THE JUPITER: Same Time Next Year

News Reviewed: Affair at the Jupiter

Friday-Sunday Sept. 14-16

Affairs you had four years ago are inevitably hotter than the affair you are having today—there is a blush and burnish in hindsight, a patina that makes the grass seem greener on the other side of the ... More

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 by RICHARD SPEER

Model Behavior

Organism’s sophomore show impresses with restraint.

Visual Arts Don’t come to Model Behavior looking for models of the Gisele Bündchen variety. This second outing for fledgling arts organization Organism is about a more conceptual kind of model: a mo ... More

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

TBA DIARY: All about Baryshnikov

News Saturday, September 9, 2007: Donna Uchizono Company

It's super-muggy in the Newmark Theater at PCPA, but then, it's a packed house, and I'm in the third balcony. Heat rises. You do the math. TBA guest artistic director Mark Russell walks onstage, tells everyone... More

Sunday, September 9, 2007 by RICHARD SPEER

TBA Diary: Richard Speer does the Works

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Dateline: Friday, Sept. 7

The first thing I noticed on the first night of TBA's after-party, The Works, was the smell. For the life of me, I still can't figure out WTF it was. My working theory is that it was some sort of semi-toxic off-gassing ... More

Saturday, September 8, 2007 by RICHARD SPEER

Flying Under the Radar

Derli Barroso and Elise Wagner sneak up on Portland gallery-goers.

Visual Arts Not every local artist blazes forth with an eccentric personality (Tom Cramer) or dramatic stylistic shift (Joe Thurston) or political agenda (Arvie Smith) that demands immediate attention. Some artis ... More

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Joe Thurston at Elizabeth Leach

Channeling Paul Bunyan, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein—and Britney Spears?

Visual Arts Some local artists grow in glacial micro-steps (Brenden Clenaghen and G. Lewis Clevenger come to mind), some in excruciatingly straight lines (Jacqueline Ehlis, Mel Katz), some do not evolve at all (B ... More

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

The Desoto Building

A building, a cross-pollination and a life-changing journey into basket weaving?

Visual Arts There's a Cole Porter tune called "So Near and Yet So Far" that could have been written about the two-block distance between the Everett Station Lofts and the newly renovated DeSoto Building. The Loft ... More

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Contemporary Northwest Art Awards finalists announced!

News The Portland Art Museum has announced finalists for its first Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, which are a replacement of sorts for the now-retired Oregon Biennial. PAM curator Jennifer Gately and... More

Friday, July 27, 2007 by RICHARD SPEER

Glittery Mirrors and Party People

Artists explore gender and the Gay '90s.

Visual Arts The wonderful, awful thing about conceptual art is that it can be poorly executed but still make its point. Much of the work up this month at Launchpad is amateur and unfinished-looking but still stim ... More

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

First Thursday: A Tale of Two Davids

David Eckard and David Geiser effuse and eviscerate.

Visual Arts David Eckard creates art at the intersection of desire and deformity. In Liveries (summer stock) at Mark Woolley, he continues a careerlong fascination with the body and the bizarre—themes he fu ... More

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

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Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
Confronting the myth of the great American road. Road Trip
Matt McCormick takes a look in Oregon’s rear-view mirror. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalists

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