Category Archives: PDX art Blogs

Mike Bray’s ‘Fragments of an Unknowable Whole’ at Fourteen30 Contemporary

mike bray.JPGView full sizeInstallation view of Mike Bray’s “Fragments of an Unknowable Whole.”
Mike Bray is entranced by the world of cinema. In the past, the Eugene artist has made work inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” and brothers Albert

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New Yorkers furious over ‘peeping art’ photos taken through windows

svenson1.jpgView full sizeA visitor views the photography of Arne Svenson on Thursday at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York. Residents of a New York luxury apartment building are upset over the exhibition by Svenson who secretly made their pictures from his window across the street. NEW YORK

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2013 Summer Events Guide: Visual arts best bets

anna craycroft.JPGView full sizeAnna Craycroft at PICA. “Cyclepedia: Iconic Bicycle Designs” With more cyclists per capita than any other U.S. city, Portland is the perfect host for “Cyclepedia,” an exhibition of bikes of every stripe, from state-of-the-art racers to curios. Culled from the collection of the Vienna-based

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Oxford Hotel in Bend has ladies room worth remembering (sorry, guys, but enjoy the photo)

Half the population is out of luck, should they want to see one of central Oregon’s memorable rooms.

Sorry, guys! It’s the ladies room at the Oxford Hotel in Bend.

Unless you’re a male photographer from The Oregonian and the coast happens to be clear, most guys will never set foot inside.

“I hate to use the words funky, eclectic and fun,

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Top Things to Do This Weekend: May 17–19


concerts

Man or Astroman?
Fri at 9; Doug Fir Lounge
Really, all you need to know about this well-traveled outfit from Alabama (though they claim extra-terrestrial origins) is that its live show consists of full-throttle surf and hot-rod instrumental rock with outer-space panache. Welcome space brothers!

classical music

Oregon Symphony:

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Win Tickets to Thomas Lauderdale and Meow Meow with the Oregon Symphony


In the interest of full disclosure, many years ago I produced a show starring Meow Meow and Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale in the crushed-velvet, cigarette-smudged glamour of the drag club Darcelle’s. In typical manic grandeur, Meow climbed across the small cocktail tables, pulled audience members onstage for an

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