Cinema Project: Work By Susanna Helke
Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Nov. 1: A one-night only screening and q&a session with Finnish documentary filmmaker Susanna Helke, who will screen four of her films.
Portland Art Museum
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Full Sail Brewing Company Honored For Sustainablity
BeerAdvocate (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
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A gaggle of November reviews
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Because of the holidays November is often overstuffed with worthy shows and not enough time to see or review all of them properly... so I thought I'd put together a series of shorts on things you can see while shopping or walking off the turkey. Besides the highly recommended Broadcast at Lewis and Clark College and China Design Now at PAM here are few things that go beyond art school posturing. As...
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WPA art
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This month's installment of the Art & Conversation series at PAM features local author and museum docent Ginny Allen leading a discussion on Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored art in the collection and other federal art projects around Portland. Meet in the Fields Ballroom in the Mark Building. Art chat • 9:15-11am • November 19 Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park •...
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New Columbia continues to attract attention
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Nick was honored to speak at the premiere of "Imagining Home" last Saturday at the Portland Art Museum. The film, from Portlanders Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, chronicles the six-year demolition and rebuilding of the New Columbia housing project in North Portland.
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PAM Annual Book Sale
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Portland Art Museum, Mark Building PAM's annual book sale is happening this weekend: "Discover great book bargains at the [2-day] Crumpacker Family Library's annual sale, featuring thousands of donated new and used art books at a fraction of the full retail price." Book Sale • 9am-3pm • November 14 & 15 Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • Miller Gallery in the Mark...
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"Imagining Home": Saturday at the NW Film & Video Festival
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Imagining Home," a documentary from local directors Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, is showing this Saturday at the Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium, part of the "When Columbia Villa, a troubled and dilapidated Portland public housing neighborhood originally built to house WWII shipyard workers and later ravaged by gangs and drugs, was demolished, 1,300 residents were displaced....
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more speaking
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Xu Bing, "Ghosts Pounding the Wall" In the first of two CDN lectures this week, renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing will speak tomorrow on 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art . "Ranging from monumental installations to handcrafted books, Xu's artistic practice is a playful and political exploration of the written word, usually in the form of the Chinese character. His work questions our...
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Weekend Visual Art Picks
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Augustine Kofie Hey guys, aside from tonight's openings at Sequential Art and the Street Roots show at Albina Community Bank, there are a ton of visual art happenings this weekend. Here are some of them, broken up by day for your ease of use, and posted after the jump. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Carl Alviani interviews Hong Kong designer Freeman Lau this Saturday in Portland
core77.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If you're in or near Portland, Oregon this weekend, a couple of things to keep in mind: First, the China Design Now exhibition is on, and it's a thing of beauty. One of only two American museums to host it, the Portland Art Museum has done a great job of taking viewers on a crash course of China's rise from global factory to independent creative voice, through surveys of the design scenes in Shanghai,...
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The Portland Art Museum Transforms an Exhibition Into a Social Platform
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ziba Design helped create the massive exhibition, "China Design Now," which is reaching beyond museum walls and spidering into Portland, Oregon. For the last few weeks, Steve McCallion has reported on how the experience transformed the city. As I mentioned in previous posts , the Portland Art Museum brought China Design Now , the London Victoria & Albert exhibit, to Portland to attract...
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talking
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Carson Ellis, "The Junkyard" PAM's artist talk series continues this week with illustrator Carson Ellis, who has created art for local rock band The Decemberists and books such as The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and The Beautiful Stories of Life by Cynthia Rylant. He'll pick one or two works in the museum that he loves and lead...
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Quick Links: October 29, 2009
Random Culture (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Today's links are all about "crowdsourcing" Victors & Spoils: A New Ad Agency Built on Crowdsourcing John Winsor of CP+B fame has started a new agency that's creating quite a buzz. Using talented creatives to harness the power of crowdsourced...
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Portland Art Museum Tells the Story of China's Newest Dynasty: Design
Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Ziba Design helped create the massive exhibition, "China Design Now," which is reaching beyond museum walls and spidering into Portland, Oregon. For the next few weeks, Steve McCallion will report on how the experience transforms the city. Opening night at the China Design Now exhibition brought a diverse crowd to the Portland Art Museum . Bike messengers, baristas, architects, graphic designers,...
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China Architecture Now
PORT (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Architecture by Yung Ho Chang Architect Yung Ho Chang is lecturing this week at PAM in conjunction with the ongoing China Design Now exhibition. In China Architecture Now Chang will discuss "how the rapid changes in contemporary China's economy, mobility and consumerism are profoundly affecting architectural practice in the country." Chang is founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture...