Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks
Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs pushing the boundaries of what footwear can be.
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Black Artists of Oregon
Black Artists of Oregon, highlighting and celebrating the work of Black artists in and outside of the collection, will serve to deepen awareness of the talented artists that have shaped and inspired artists regionally and nationally.
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2024 Venice Biennale—Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me
Please note, that this exhibition takes place in Venice, Italy. Visit the official website. Overview The Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of […]
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Monet to Matisse: French Moderns
From the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic […]
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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm
Overview Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm is an unprecedented exhibition, revealing extraordinary photographs taken by the beloved musical icon. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the […]
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Mar 29, 2024
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Future Now: Curators in Conversation
Mar 30, 2024
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UNORTHODOX // The Gospel of Eureka w/ Danny Grody Performance + Filmmaker Q&A, moderated by Aubrey Gordon
Mar 30, 2024
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Mar 31, 2024
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Announcing 2024 exhibitions, including Monet to Matisse: French Moderns
The Portland Art Museum has announced a dynamic slate of exhibitions opening in 2024. From future-forward sneaker design to Impressionist masters and psychedelic posters, the exhibitions celebrate a wide range […]
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- Instagram, 🙌 In less than one month, Jeffrey Gibson’s “the space in which to place me” opens at the U.S. Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition at @LaBiennale di Venezia on April 20! The Venice Biennale exhibition is co-commissioned with @SITESantaFe and curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby, our Curator of Native American Art, and independent curator Abigail Winograd. The working relationship between Gibson and Ash-Milby actually reaches back 22 years. She recalled: “Jeffrey and I have known each other since my first studio visit with him in New York City in 2002. We first spent time together in Venice in 2007 when I curated a public art installation as a collateral project (an independent but official Biennale exhibition shown outside of the official national pavilions) with the artist Edgar Heap of Birds, sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian. For both of us, it was our first real exposure to this sprawling and diverse international art exhibition. It was also when we both considered the idea of Jeffrey exhibiting there as a goal or, rather, a crazy fantasy! The participation of Native artists at that time in the national art scene was minimal, and even less so in the international contemporary art world. Canada selected its first Indigenous artist, Edward Poitras, to exhibit in its pavilion in 1995, but the United States had only included Native artists once in the 1930s. In that group exhibition of American painters depicting the West, the organizers included a Southwest “Indian Gallery” within the pavilion. There is limited documentation of this room, but we do know it included the work of many named and unnamed potters, silversmiths, weavers, and painters grouped together. As a country, we’ve come a long way in a short time. For our field to have advanced so far in the last 17 years is incredible, but for Jeffrey and I to be a part of this historic moment together is truly a dream come true.” —Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art #BiennaleArte2024 #JeffreyGibson #JeffreyGibsonVenice
- Instagram, “Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You’re directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn’t prescribed by a particular method.” Rest in peace, Richard Serra (1938–2024). [Video description: Install view of “Untitled” 1969. Cor-ten steel sculpture in gallery comprised of two rusting steel plates propped against a steel pole which stands at an angle.]
- Instagram, ✨ That feeling of a new exhibition is in the air! ✨ Opening Saturday: “Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks” features nearly 60 futuristic designs pushing the boundaries of what footwear can be. "Future Now" includes digitally designed and 3D-printed shoes, sneakers made from mushroom leather and reclaimed ocean plastics, and footwear created for the metaverse. The ahead-of-its-time Nike Mag, conceived for “Back to the Future Part II” by Portland’s own Tinker Hatfield, will be on display, as well as recent innovators MSCHF’s Big Red Boots and EKTO VR’s One Robotic Boots. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts (@amfedarts) and the @BataShoeMuseum. *Please note the exhibition galleries are closing at 4 p.m. on Saturday* ✨ 4 p.m. | Join us on opening day for a conversation with @ElizabethSemmelhack (Bata Shoe Museum Director and Senior Curator) and Amy Dotson (PAM CUT Director and Film and New Media Curator) as they discuss futurism, materiality, and technology within footwear design. Reserve your ticket at the link. Learn more and plan your visit at the link in bio → [ID: Outdoor photo of building banner on red brick building: "Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, Mar 30-Aug 11" with pair of pink-and-white anime-inspired sneakers.]
- Instagram, 🍿 This week at the @PAM_CUT Tomorrow Theater! March 21, 7 p.m. | “Sometimes I Think About Dying” w/ film crew Q&A March 22, 7 p.m. | MARCH MADNESS // Music Videos and Comedy! March 23, 4 p.m. | “Hundreds of Beavers” with music performance by @Jet.Black.Pearl March 23, 7 p.m. | The @FutureOfFilmIsFemale presents "Valley Girl" March 24, 7 p.m. | "Heathers" Bingo hosted by @VioletHexPDX Get tickets → link in bio
- Instagram, 📱💖 For the first time on the West Coast, join @SmartphoneOrchestra at the Tomorrow Theater as they create incredible interactive experiences and games that play out not just on mobile phones, but connect us to one another IRL! Jump in to help us make music, master the art of love, and learn to speak only in Emoji? Heck yeah! Charge your phone all the way to 100, bring your friends and get ready for the night of your life… April 5 & 6, 6 p.m. | “Music for Smartphones” & “Emojiii” A 30-minute Q&A with Amy Rijke & Steye Hallema of Smartphone Orchestra will follow this event. April 5 & 6, 8:30 p.m. | “The Social Sorting Experiment” Get tickets → link in bio [ID: Event photos of a crowd of people interacting while holding cell phones.]
- Instagram, 🌱🌷 Spring, one day early. Thanks to the leap year, we’re enjoying the welcome explosion of sun and new blossoms earlier than usual. This colorful scene of abundance is by Severin Roesen, who trained as a porcelain painter in Germany and immigrated to the United States as an adult to become one of 19th-century America’s most beloved still-life painters. He was known for his sumptuous and detailed floral still lifes in the tradition of the 17th-century Dutch and German painters. 📍 On view in “Throughlines: Connections in the Collection” — #SeverinRoesen (German, active United States, ca. 1815-ca. 1872), “Still Life of Flowers and Fruit,” 1870–1872. Oil on canvas; 50 1/4 in x 40 in, Gift of Mary and Pete Mark, public domain, 2005.20 [ID: Large vertical still life painting of fruit and flowers against brown background.]
- Instagram, ✨ Just two weeks remain to explore “Black Artists of Oregon,” on view through March 31! “An intergenerational exhibit featuring 69 Black artists all cut from remarkably unique cloths, creating a metaphorical (or spiritual) quilt that is as diverse as it is dynamic as it is impactful as it is stunning.” —Brianna Wheeler, @WillametteWeek ✨ Join us for the closing programs on March 24: 1–2:30 p.m. | Alan Ostrow Memorial Talk: Black Photographers in Portland 3–4:30 p.m. | Black Artists of Oregon: Ceremony Of Our Black Continuance, Perpetuity Learn more and get tickets → link in bio 📷 @nmaorji [ID: Visitor with black and pink braids in front of a salon style install of genre paintings by Patricia Herron.]
- Instagram, ✨ Opening April 20, Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition “the space in which to place me” for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (@LaBiennale) provides international audiences with the first major opportunity to experience the artist’s work outside of the U.S. “the space in which to place me” considers Indigenous histories within an American and international context, expanding upon the varied materials and forms that Gibson has explored over the past two decades. The title references Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem “Ȟe Sápa.” For the U.S. Pavilion, Gibson is activating the interior and exterior of the neoclassical building with a series of new and recent works, including sculpture, paintings on paper, video, and multimedia paintings. Often pointing toward moments in history that were meant to spark change, Gibson’s use of text encourages viewers to examine our past when considering the present. For more information on the 2024 U.S. Pavilion, visit → jeffreygibsonvenice2024.org (link in bio) #BiennaleArte2024 #JeffreyGibson #JeffreyGibsonVenice — Photo: Cara Romero; Design by I-C-C-P [ID: 1. Photo of Gibson seated on stool wearing all black with necklace and cowboy hat. 2. Rotating clockwise text in circle set in brown and purple: “the space in which to place me”]