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

Visual Arts The most interesting bit of trivia about sculptor Mel Katz is not that he was once married to former Portland Mayor Vera Katz, but that his accent is a dead ringer for that of Al Pacino. Katz was born ...   More

Visual Arts Walt Whitman eulogized the manifold charms of the open road; Kerouac, Cassady and Kesey sang its praises to their own beat; Nat King Cole got his kicks on Route 66; and Vladimir Nabokov, in Lolita, vo ...   More

Visual Arts Before the show closes, be sure to see The Preeminents, one of the best shows Mark Woolley has ever mounted in his eponymous gallery. It's ungracious to say that the show is too tightly crowded— ...   More

Visual Arts Chinese-born artist Weihong combines computer graphics, Eastern philosophy and an ancient tea ceremony in her interactive photography installation at Ogle. In 255-0+Tea, Weihong riffs on the RGB color ...   More

Visual Arts Brooklyn photographer Peter Beste is obsessed with Norwegian dark metal bands—a quasi-Satanic subgenre of heavy metal whose frontmen tend to look like a cross between Gene Simmons of Kiss and Br ...   More

Visual Arts Media glut notwithstanding, Storm Tharp's spectacularly overrated show at PDX isn't the only show up this wintry month. Other notables include Biennial alum K.C. Madsen's crumpled-paper sculptures at ...   More

Visual Arts Quick: What do you get when you cross a cigarette butt and an earplug? No, no, not a butt plug—shame on you and your dirty mind! You get J.D. Perkin and Anne Thompson's Second Skin at Portland A ...   More

Visual Arts Storm Tharp's contribution to last year's Oregon Biennial, an untitled floral still life, was one of that exhibition's unmitigated highlights. Almost hidden within its luxuriant oils was a bizarre, be ...   More

Featured Stories Quality Pictures' splashy grand opening last month—champagne and lemondrops, DJ and live band—was the icing on what appears to be a very substantial cake. The gallery's debut featured Chri ...   More