Death Knell for Clutter
A writer discovers the late-life joys of döstädning
Let’s get this straight right now: I’m not planning to die anytime soon. But consider: One day you’re young and in recklessly good health; the … Continue reading
Bob Keefer
Bob Keefer is Eugene Weekly's arts editor. He was a news and arts writer for The Register-Guard for 30 years before coming to EW.
Author: Bob Keefer
The Three Colors of Nature
After a two-decade hiatus, artist Mike Pease is back with a Eugene gallery show
The first thing to know about Mike Pease’s art is how incredibly precise his process is for producing it. Pease creates his careful landscapes, rendered … Continue reading
A Season of Change
The audience gets to listen in this fall as Eugene’s two classical orchestras try out new musical leaders
Fall is on its way, and change is in the air in Eugene’s performing arts world. Just in the past year or two Eugene Symphony, … Continue reading
Rhymin’ Time Again
After a nudge from EW, the governor at last springs into action and appoints a new poet laureate
Following an unprecedented delay, on August 15 Gov. Tina Kotek named Bend poet, non-fiction writer and writing instructor Ellen Waterston to be Oregon’s 11th poet … Continue reading
Operatic Debut
Eugene actress and arts administrator Kari Welch takes charge of Eugene Opera
Kari Boldon Welch is the first to admit she’s a newcomer to the colorful world of opera. “I don’t know a ton about opera,” she … Continue reading
Drawing Themselves Straight
The son of Oregon’s late Indigenous artist Rick Bartow begins to walk in his father’s footsteps with a gallery show in Newport
One night in late 2016, Booker Bartow — best known in those days, if at all, as a skateboard videographer and hip-hop DJ performing as … Continue reading
Beauty in Basalt
A small exhibit of landscape photos at the Schnitzer Museum is worth visiting campus to see
One of the least known — but most influential — photographers ever to work in Oregon is the late Terry Toedtemeier. Trained as a scientist … Continue reading
Murder in Black and White
The latest, creepy, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into a movie twice, the more recent attempt, in 1999, featuring Matt Damon in … Continue reading
Back to Black (and White)
Photography at Oregon’s show at Maude Kerns Art Center revels in a return to monochrome
Having been banished to artistic obsolescence for the past few decades, black and white photography is enjoying a renaissance in the art world, from the … Continue reading
When Art Mattered
Six big-name sculptors came to Eugene in 1974, and some of their art still lingers
In 1974, the late Jan Zach, an internationally known sculptor teaching at the University of Oregon, pulled off a big idea. Gathering $145,000 in grant … Continue reading