Visits to Portland are always filled with surprises and frequently leave one contemplating the possibilities that exist in civic-minded, inward-looking cities that do not aspire to global significance. In the once-forgotten former meat packing district of Kenton in North Portland, the pattern of n...
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With the advent of the digital age, deception in photography has never been easier, and Amir Zaki makes the best possible case for its artistic benefits. His brilliant and compelling portraits of retro-chic lifeguard towers in Southern California are the product of nearly as much i...
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Installation at Western Bridge, Seattle.Photo: Merrill Greene.
Where better right now for a new arrival in Seattle to begin to get a sense of the city’s art culture than at Western Bridge? Bill and Ruth True’s philanthropic art project is remarkable enough, but if it were necessary to d...
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Whim W’him
On The Boards/January 15-17, 2010
Yes, Virginia, that really was ballet at On the Boards January 15-17th.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer and choreographer Olivier Wevers’ new company Whim W’him made its debut Friday, January 15th, with a bill of t...
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You’re looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life. Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago...
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