Visual Arts: Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2014:/visualarts/6802008-03-26T18:47:50ZThe Oregonian's D.K. Row blogs about the Visual ArtsMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advancePhotography Review: 'New on the Wall' at Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2008:/visualarts//680.8308782008-03-26T18:47:50Z2010-05-12T20:13:42ZSmoke rises ethereally from the caldron of an old Afghani neighborhood, with stone building foundations and bare trees now as lifeless as the ancient Pompeii archaeological site. No human is in the frame of this haunting, gorgeous picture by Simon...Brian Libby, Special to The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/blibby/index.html
Smoke rises ethereally from the caldron of an old Afghani neighborhood, with stone building foundations and bare trees now as lifeless as the ancient Pompeii archaeological site. No human is in the frame of this haunting, gorgeous picture by Simon...
Review: Contemporary Northwest Art Awards at PAMtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2008:/visualarts//680.10852242008-06-15T19:17:53Z2010-05-12T20:06:27Z"Bitter Lake Compound" by Whiting Tennis, winner of the Arlene Schnitzer Prize The Portland Art Museum's changeover from the Oregon Biennial to the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards to showcase home-grown talent is like a dinner party with the guest list...Brian Libby, Special to The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/blibby/index.html
"Bitter Lake Compound" by Whiting Tennis, winner of the Arlene Schnitzer Prize The Portland Art Museum's changeover from the Oregon Biennial to the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards to showcase home-grown talent is like a dinner party with the guest list...
Review: Rachel Whiteread at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.20724832009-01-20T01:22:37Z2010-01-06T19:49:17ZArtist Rachel Whiteread was the first woman to win Britain's coveted Turner Prize. Special to The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oliveoregspe/index.html
Artist Rachel Whiteread was the first woman to win Britain's coveted Turner Prize.
Preview: Francois Boucher, Pomp and Pompadourtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.21609972009-02-06T01:00:00Z2009-11-17T18:18:19Z18th-century French history comes alive in all of its perfumed glory.D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
18th-century French history comes alive in all of its perfumed glory.
Upcoming: Michael Knutson lecturetag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.24909152009-04-03T14:33:32Z2009-04-05T21:55:29ZMichael Knutson: He knows his stuff. The Portland Art Museum's artist lecture series continues. After talks by MK Guth and TJ Norris, the museum presents Michael Knutson, painter and longtime professor at Reed College. For most of his career, the...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Michael Knutson: He knows his stuff. The Portland Art Museum's artist lecture series continues. After talks by MK Guth and TJ Norris, the museum presents Michael Knutson, painter and longtime professor at Reed College. For most of his career, the...
On view: SCAN at the Expo Center and Chris Jordan at Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.24514802009-03-27T16:41:13Z2009-03-27T16:47:47ZChris Jordan's photographs are at the Portland Art Museum The second annual Support Women Artists Now event is 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Portland Expo Center. The free gathering will take place next to the Energy Trust's Better...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Chris Jordan's photographs are at the Portland Art Museum The second annual Support Women Artists Now event is 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Portland Expo Center. The free gathering will take place next to the Energy Trust's Better...
Annette Dixon: Print curator and a center at a crossroadstag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.24145432009-03-21T17:00:00Z2009-03-21T17:06:35ZAnnette Dixon It's not easy to follow a legend. Take, for example, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre's replacement at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. Or, for that matter, Annette Dixon, the Portland Art Museum's curator of prints and drawings, who...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Annette Dixon It's not easy to follow a legend. Take, for example, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre's replacement at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. Or, for that matter, Annette Dixon, the Portland Art Museum's curator of prints and drawings, who...
Lecture: TJ Norris at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.23612712009-03-11T18:12:24Z2009-03-12T15:17:43ZTJ Norris (right), shown here with dealer Ruth Ann Brown. The Portland Art Museum's new artist lecture series held on the second Thursday of each month continues tomorrow evening with a talk by TJ Norris. The inaugural lecture last month...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
TJ Norris (right), shown here with dealer Ruth Ann Brown. The Portland Art Museum's new artist lecture series held on the second Thursday of each month continues tomorrow evening with a talk by TJ Norris. The inaugural lecture last month...
Review: WPA-era artworks at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.23470432009-03-09T17:50:33Z2009-03-09T18:05:29ZJoseph Stella's "Factories at Night" If laughter is the best medicine, what do you say in an unemployment line? The plump, frolicking fantasies of Francois Boucher in "La volupte du gout," the Portland Art Museum's big new exhibition of 18th-century...Bob Hicks, Special to The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/bhicks/index.html
Joseph Stella's "Factories at Night" If laughter is the best medicine, what do you say in an unemployment line? The plump, frolicking fantasies of Francois Boucher in "La volupte du gout," the Portland Art Museum's big new exhibition of 18th-century...
Print Center cancels class visitstag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.23260142009-03-05T21:09:55Z2009-03-05T21:28:24ZAnnette Dixon Recently -- at the end of last year -- the Portland Art Museum's curator of prints and drawings, Annette Dixon, announced that the Haber Study Room at the Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts will no longer be...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Annette Dixon Recently -- at the end of last year -- the Portland Art Museum's curator of prints and drawings, Annette Dixon, announced that the Haber Study Room at the Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts will no longer be...
Adam Gopnik lecturetag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.23246802009-03-05T18:14:46Z2009-03-05T18:44:08Z One of the country's more peripatetic men of letters, Adam Gopnik, is in town. The New Yorker scribe will give a lecture at the Portland Art Museum Friday evening. The talk, "Madame de Pompadour in the Age of Voltaire,"...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
One of the country's more peripatetic men of letters, Adam Gopnik, is in town. The New Yorker scribe will give a lecture at the Portland Art Museum Friday evening. The talk, "Madame de Pompadour in the Age of Voltaire,"...
Review: "Mixografia" at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.23045772009-03-02T18:23:11Z2009-03-02T18:26:41ZJohn Baldessari's "Stonehenge (With Two Persons)" The world is flat. At least, the printmaking world is. And for a lot of artists, that's a problem. Prints are immensely popular, partly because so many people see printmaking as a genuinely democratic...Bob Hicks, Special to The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/bhicks/index.html
John Baldessari's "Stonehenge (With Two Persons)" The world is flat. At least, the printmaking world is. And for a lot of artists, that's a problem. Prints are immensely popular, partly because so many people see printmaking as a genuinely democratic...
Miller family donates $1 million for free admissiontag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.22912202009-02-27T20:16:57Z2009-02-28T02:52:46ZSoon, you won't always have to bring your wallet to visit The Portland Art Museum. D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Soon, you won't always have to bring your wallet to visit The Portland Art Museum.
"Beaux-Arts" at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.22652792009-02-23T22:53:02Z2009-02-24T16:17:05ZA pole dancer at the Portland Art Museum's benefit for young patrons Saturday evening Her wig is big. Her pink dress is tiny. The style is Marie Antoinette abbreviated to expose six-inch heels of translucent plastic and the better part...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
A pole dancer at the Portland Art Museum's benefit for young patrons Saturday evening Her wig is big. Her pink dress is tiny. The style is Marie Antoinette abbreviated to expose six-inch heels of translucent plastic and the better part...
Artist lecture series at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.21977582009-02-11T16:53:04Z2009-02-11T21:03:12ZThe first talk, by MK Guth, is on Thursday. D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
The first talk, by MK Guth, is on Thursday.
Review: "La volupte du gout: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour"tag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.21722542009-02-08T23:00:00Z2009-02-08T23:14:35Z"Italian Garden" by Hubert Robert, 1761. Oil on canvas. Marseille, Musee des Beaux-Arts. Dancing cupids, breathtaking landscapes, brawny laundrywomen, Europa's dramatic abduction and the gods of the arts urging to save the life of a dying patroness. Such is the...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
"Italian Garden" by Hubert Robert, 1761. Oil on canvas. Marseille, Musee des Beaux-Arts. Dancing cupids, breathtaking landscapes, brawny laundrywomen, Europa's dramatic abduction and the gods of the arts urging to save the life of a dying patroness. Such is the...
Memorial for Terry Toedtemeiertag:blog.oregonlive.com,2009:/visualarts//680.19856962009-01-02T17:21:03Z2009-01-02T17:34:00ZA photograph by Terry Toedtemeier A memorial for Terry Toedtemeier will be held Sunday. The Portland Art Museum will celebrate the legacy of the late curator of photography, who died from heart-related complications in December. The event is scheduled to...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
A photograph by Terry Toedtemeier A memorial for Terry Toedtemeier will be held Sunday. The Portland Art Museum will celebrate the legacy of the late curator of photography, who died from heart-related complications in December. The event is scheduled to...
Some more thoughts on Terry Toedtemeiertag:blog.oregonlive.com,2008:/visualarts//680.19444042008-12-22T17:31:22Z2008-12-22T21:17:39ZPrudence Roberts and her husband Terry Toedtemeier at the opening of "Wild "Beauty" earlier this year. As many of you know, Terry Toedtemeier passed away on Dec. 10. Many of you have expressed your thoughts and other comments on Terry....D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Prudence Roberts and her husband Terry Toedtemeier at the opening of "Wild "Beauty" earlier this year. As many of you know, Terry Toedtemeier passed away on Dec. 10. Many of you have expressed your thoughts and other comments on Terry....
Obituary: Terry Toedtemeier, curator, photographer, historian and scientisttag:blog.oregonlive.com,2008:/visualarts//680.18959252008-12-12T00:04:46Z2008-12-12T00:29:08ZPhil BardTerry Toedtemeier doing what he loved best He had just finished talking about the place that he loved so much to rousing, hearty applause. That's perhaps the best and most fitting way to have left this world for Terry...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Phil BardTerry Toedtemeier doing what he loved best He had just finished talking about the place that he loved so much to rousing, hearty applause. That's perhaps the best and most fitting way to have left this world for Terry...
Update: Curating positions at the Portland Art Museumtag:blog.oregonlive.com,2008:/visualarts//680.18583222008-12-04T16:57:55Z2008-12-04T17:18:15ZChief curator Bruce Guenther has some important staffing decisions to make The Portland Art Museum will expand over the coming years into an adjoining block as a result of finalizing a deal recently on the building at 934 S.W. Salmon...D.K. Row, The Oregonianhttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/drow/index.html
Chief curator Bruce Guenther has some important staffing decisions to make The Portland Art Museum will expand over the coming years into an adjoining block as a result of finalizing a deal recently on the building at 934 S.W. Salmon...