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Volcanic Glass, Crow Themed Art and Three Other Art Exhibits Opening This Week

This week, First Thursday and First Friday couldn’t seem more different. On the eastside, there’s an opening reception for a punny exhibit about crows and another that features smiley-faced cassette tapes. In the Pearl, there are solo shows from established Portland artists and sobering large-scale installations.

Here Are The Gallery Openings To Go See This Week, No Matter Where You Live

The idea is to make going to see art as accessible as possible, so if you don’t feel like dealing with parking downtown, you can still see shows that are just as intriguing.

Wookies and Horse Heads: The Gallery Openings We’re Most Excited To See This Week

First Thursday is equally a celebration of Portland arts spaces as well as a reminder of their precariousness.

The Top 5 Art Shows We’re Most Excited to See This Month

The Trump administration has announced it is moving forward with its plan to defund the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities (which will save a whopping 0.0625 percent of the budget!). Resist.

Introducing Art Passport PDX, an Excuse to Go Gallery-Hopping with a Chance to Win a $1,600 Credit to Buy Art

The lack of engagement in Portland’s art institutions, combined with impossibly high rents and massive gentrification, means that the creative class is being driven out.

In the Months Since the Election, There's Been A Rise in Galleries Fundraising for Social Justice Causes

In the months since, it seems that artists, gallery owners and exhibition managers have come to the conclusion they don’t have to make radical changes in their lives to make a difference, that they can devote themselves to activism within the world they already inhabit. Looking at the calendar of openings, it’s pretty remarkable how the Portland visual arts scene has rallied.

"East Meets West" Gives Many of Us Our First Look At Myanmar, A Place of Transition

In one of Eric West’s large-scale color photographs documenting the Burmese urban landscape, a barefoot monk crosses a dusty, potholed street, his burgundy robe billowing around him. Ahead of him, a humble, three-story building stands on the corner, its façade plastered with advertisements for cellphones.

The Five Portland Art Gallery Shows We’re Most Excited To See in January 2017

I expect these five shows to help steel us for the upcoming inauguration. Some will do so by reminding us of the beauty that is everywhere for the taking, while others will reassure us that in the face of so much violence, jingoism and hate, we all care about the uncertain future of our humanity.

The Eight Portland Art Shows I’m Most Glad I Saw in 2016

This isn’t the list of the “best” art shows of the year. Art is nothing if not personal and subjective, so the trick to reading this list is not to take it as an objective truth, but simply to understand what causes certain pieces of art to find a home in one person’s heart and mind.

Art Is More Important Now Than Ever—And We Can All Do Better

When people’s lives are being threatened because of the color of their skin or the way they pray, when people are having bottles broken over their noses because of whom they love, when families have to worry about being separated by mass deportation, when swastikas are being etched on walls, when nothing feels safe anymore, it’s easy to think that art doesn’t matter.

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