Visual Arts As part of the Platform Animation Festival, Portland Art Center has mounted an intriguing show called Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators. Curated by Shawn Bowman, the show features split-screen por ...   More

Visual Arts There is a good way to be sloppy and a sloppy way to be sloppy. Anna Fidler's Mistique: New Works on Paper at Pulliam Deffenbaugh is improvisatory but not slapdash, childlike but not amateur. In her f ...   More

Visual Arts The symbiotic relationship between fine art and architecture stretches back millennia, but recently I'm reminded of Piet Mondrian, whose geometric études influenced individual architects and en ...   More

Visual Arts To paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light—the month is dying in the night. So before the month of May evaporates, be sure to ...   More

Visual Arts The Cascade AIDS Project took a lot of heat last year when it moved its annual "Art for Life" fundraiser from Montgomery Park to the more sterile-feeling Oregon Convention Center. This year CAP rename ...   More

Featured Stories In February 2006, 25-year-old graffiti artist Joshua Wallace was serving coffee at Mio Gelato on Northwest 23rd Avenue. He struck up a conversation with a customer who turned out to be real-estate dev ...   More

Visual Arts Andy Paiko is a glass blower in the Venetian tradition. In the past he has created goblets, candlesticks and other assorted vessels that are well-crafted and beautiful, if not particularly original. I ...   More

Visual Arts New American Art Union's invisible.other, curated by TJ Norris, is a well-conceived, well-executed show with diverse highlights. In Melia Donovan's Frostie Freeze, the artist rendered a Midwestern fas ...   More

Visual Arts It's a moment that takes the breath out of your lungs: the "Eureka!" when landscape painters first realize they don't need the landscape any more. How many color-field painters started out in landscap ...   More

Visual Arts Gotta love George Carlin's take on eating disorders: "Somehow I can't feel sorry for an anorexic. Rich cunt doesn't want to eat? Fuck her." In reality, the ways in which body image affect what we eat, ...   More