The Country Fair Runway
Fair fashion and glitter
Oregon Country Fair is known for trying to be an all-inclusive spot for people of all kinds. It encompasses the most eclectic parts of society, … Continue reading
Visual Arts: Page 21
Art City as Social Sculpture
This summer’s ‘Studio without Walls’ and ‘BEAM’
Art students focus on becoming good at their craft and finding what they’re interested in representing to the world. Then comes graduation, and the aspiring … Continue reading
Familiar Landscape
Robert Schlegel time travels at Karin Clarke Gallery
You know how you can see a movie or read a book and not like it, and then revisit it years later and love it, … Continue reading
Photography Then and Now
Two exhibitions at the Schnitzer show how photography has matured as an art form
Once upon a time, photography was a simple affair. The photographer’s job was basically to record light onto a surface. Fun fact: The word photography … Continue reading
‘The Blind Illustratrix’
Portland artist M. Sabine Rear focuses her vision on comics
When you fall down the rabbit hole of zines, comics, social commentary and stickers that make up the work of M. Sabine Rear, prepare for … Continue reading
Art Begets Art
Satoko Motouji’s Peer Gynt paintings go to the theater
The most entertaining dictum I’ve heard about the question of art’s function — and the easiest to prove — is that the purpose of art … Continue reading
But is it art?
Without a broad audience, contemporary art establishes a foothold in Eugene
A video circulating on YouTube shows a curator, Aram Moshayedi, at LA’s Hammer Museum introducing actors Will Ferrell and Joel McHale to a contemporary art exhibit, … Continue reading
Spring Forth
‘Dead Loss’ is part of Eugene Contemporary Art’s 2018 exhibition series
Chance meetings and random events in art were made popular a century ago by the Dadaists and Surrealists in Europe, and then by the Abstract … Continue reading
French Photography at the Schnitzer
Looking back at photos from before iPhones and selfies
It’s not often the work of a 10-year-old artist winds up in a museum. The French child prodigy Jacques-Henri Lartigue is an exception, having been … Continue reading
Rolling on the River
Eugene Symphony, McKenzie River Trust and Travel Lane County team up for music and photo extravaganza
When Eugene Symphony began planning this month’s orchestra concert some two years ago, Executive Director Scott Freck wondered to himself: What are the things we’re … Continue reading