News After 15 years in business, the Mark Woolley Gallery will close on May 30th, after a final group show. The gallery becomes the third major Portland gallery to close this year, after Quality Pictures foundered in January and Pulliam Deffenbaugh's directors announced in March they were ending their longtime run and restructuring into a new gallery to be called The Pulliam Gallery. For his part, Woolley ...   More

News Oregon Ballet Theatre is gearing up for its biggest performance ever—raising three-quarters of a million dollars in one month. Barry Johnson over at the O had the scoop last night: Unless the company raises $750,000 by June 30 to cover expenses and pay creditors, it may have to close its doors. "It is not clear that we will survive," said Jon Ulsh, the company's executive director. Read ...   More

News The season is so close you can smell it—no, not spring, but Biennial season. A duo of new biennial art exhibitions has been announced in the absence of a proper biennial such as the Portland Art Museum used to mount. Arts nonprofit Disjecta has unveiled Portland 2010, curated by Linfield College gallery director Chris Moss. From March 13-May 30, eighteen artists will display old and new work ...   More

News Lewis Hyde—social anthropologist, poet, scholar, gentle hero—is coming to Portland. Even better (as perhaps befits the author of The Gift), he will be giving lectures that are both free and public, at PNCA (6:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 3) and Lewis & Clark (4 pm Thursday, Feb. 4), on the subject of The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good. If you've never heard of ...   More