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Monet to Matisse: French Moderns
Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, the exhibition features paintings and sculpture ranging widely in scale, subject matter, and style.
1219 SW Park Ave
Jun 8, 2024 – Sep 15, 2024
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ExhibitionsPissarro to Picasso: Masterworks on Loan from the Kirkland Family Collection
Fourteen art treasures from the collection of the Kirkland family, many of which have not been publicly displayed for decades. The works span nearly a century, from the monumental 1887 canvas of Jamaica by Martin Johnson Heade, to Marc Chagall’s 1975 The Betrothed.
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ExhibitionsFuture 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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ExhibitionsThroughlines: Connections in the Collection
Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation.
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Sep 14, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
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Classes & campsBeat Builders // Designing Grooves at DJ Camp (ages 8-10)
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterDead Media Hour w/ Stephen Slappe
Jul 18, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterD.E.B.S. // PORTLAND PRIDE
Jul 19, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterHedwig and the Angry Inch w/ Low Bar Chorale
Jul 20, 2024
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Jul 20, 2024
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CommunityCommunity Update – May 2024
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PodcastBlack Artists of Oregon: Episode 9
This is Art Unbound, a joint production of PAM and the Numberz FM. Featuring Intisar Abioto, the guest curator for the exhibition Black Artists of Oregon on view September 9, 2023 through March 31, 2024. In this ninth installment of the series Intisar interviews Isaka Shamsud Din & Anthony Jordan.
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Instagram, 🪷 An upcoming conservation project will shine new light on Claude Monet’s iconic “Waterlilies” (1914–15).
This initiative will feature in-gallery videos with our conservator Charlotte Ameringer and European art curator Lloyd DeWitt.
Please stay tuned!
This project is made possible by the 2024 @BankofAmerica Art Conservation Project
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Instagram, 🤝 Meet the curator!
You're invited to meet Lloyd DeWitt, the Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European & American Art Pre-1930, for informal one-on-one conversations in the "Monet to Matisse" galleries to learn about the exhibition. Free with admission.
July 12, August 9, and September 13, 1–2 p.m.
Learn more → link in bio
[ID: Photo of DeWitt above installation view of a modernist art exhibition.]
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Instagram, 🏛️ Enjoy free admission until 8 p.m. today (July 11)!
✨ Free First Thursday returns every month! And don’t forget: kids receive free admission all year long.
🤝 Help us continue to inspire our community through the power of art by making a donation! Give today → link in bio
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📹 John Goodwin, Director of Community Philanthropy
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Instagram, ✨ Free admission for all!
Free *Second* Thursday is happening this week! Join us July 11, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. to explore all four exhibitions on view, plus free programs:
🗣11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Art and Conversation with “Monet to Matisse” curator Lloyd DeWitt
📝 12–4 p.m. | Heather Petrocelli (@queerforfear) and Becky Emmert, Head of Accessibility bring #DisabilityPrideMonth to life through zine-making as community building.
👟✨3:30–7 p.m. | Shoe designer @LizMillerCustoms invites visitors to create their own sneaker design on paper in textured rubbings and colored pencil.
Plan your visit → link in bio
[ID: 1. Installation view of bronze sculpture on plinth with blue title wall for Monet to Matisse. 2. Photo of Miller in sneaker exhibition by @voyageandvine. 3. Photo of Petrocelli outside.]
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Instagram, 🐉 Get up here! Let’s dance…
@HouseoftheDragonHBO fans witnessed the epic Dance of the Dragons battle unfold last night. If you need more dragon content, here are some fearsome specimens.
🐲 Are you Team Green or Team Black?
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861), “Two dragons at play in a waterfall,” 1825/1835. Color woodblock print on paper; nishiki-e; 15 1/8 × 10 5/16 in. The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, 32.589
China, unknown kiln, “Jarlet with molded relief yellow dragon on green ground,” 14th/15th century. Stoneware with molded decoration under bright green and yellow glazes, 3 × 3 in. diam. The Jeanne Gunther Hemphill Collection of Asian Ceramics, 2009.27.35
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), “The Apocalyptic Woman,” from “The Apocalypse,” 1498; printed 1511. Woodcut; 15 5/8 × 11 1/8 in. Museum Purchase: Portland Fine Print Fair Fund, 2020.3.1
China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, “Large Vase with Dragon and Phoenix Design,” 19th century. Porcelain with cobalt-blue design painted under transparent glaze; 26 × 17 1/2 in. diam. Gift of Mr. Abbot L. Mills, Jr., 47.1
[ID: 1. Print of two dragons in waterfall. 2. Tan dragon incised on side of green glazed vessel. 3. B&w print of scene with hydra and winged woman under the heavens. 4. Blue and white vessel with dragon motif.]
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Instagram, “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” –Marc Chagall 💙
Happy birthday to Russian-French artist Chagall (1887–1985), whose visionary paintings are often centered on folkloric stories and legends with personal significance, rendered in his modern style.
This late nocturnal scene of lovers flying high over a city is a memory of “One Thousand and One Nights,” the collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories from the early ninth century. Told in mesmerizing fashion by Scheherazade, bride of King Shahraya, she staved off her execution and won her husband’s heart through all-conquering love. This composition came out of a project to provide illustrations for a new edition of Arabian nights.
📍 See it in-person in “Pissarro to Picasso: Masterworks on Loan from the Kirkland Family Collection”
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🌌 Marc Chagall (Belorussian, active France, 1887–1985), “Les Fiancés ou Souvenir de Mille et une nuits,” ca. 1973–1975. Oil, tempera and brush and India ink on canvas; 51 ¼ × 35 in. Kirkland Family Collection
[ID: 1,2. Detail of painting of a couple floating in the night sky to meet each other surrounded by animals, a town, and crescent moon. 3. Installation view by Portland Art Documentation of the painting opposite a Picasso still life on a yellow wall.]
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Instagram, “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
Frida Kahlo, born #OnThisDay in 1907, was many things: a feminist, a revolutionary, disabled, and queer artist of mestiza descent. While enduring lifelong health issues—living with the effects of childhood polio and surviving a devastating bus accident—she became one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Her legacy continues to inspire us to embrace our uniqueness and find beauty in our struggles.
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📷 Installation view of "Diego on My Mind (Self-Portrait as Tehuana)," 1943 on view in “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection” (February 19–June 5, 2022)
[ID: Painting of Kahlo on a blue wall wearing starched lace dress encircled around her face with Rivera’s face on forehead and flowers with vines growing outward from hair.]
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Instagram, 💦 Cooling off your feed for a moment.
Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman. While beautiful and even playful, his fishing industry photographs also refer to critical environmental discussions.
“Wake and Sea,” evocative of Hokusai’s famous “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” (ca. 1830–32), captures the sublime, unpredictable nature of the sea and suggests the danger inherent in the relationship between humankind and the natural world.
–Julia Dolan, The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography
📍 Escape the heatwave at the Museum! You can find this photograph in ”Throughlines: Connections in the Collection”
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@arni_coraldo (American, born 1976), “Wake and Sea,” 2015. Inkjet print; 48 × 65 in. Museum Purchase: Acquired with the assistance of The Ford Family Foundation and the Northwest Art Fund, 2017.10.1 © Corey Arnold; Image courtesy Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
[ID: Giant ocean wave amid choppy waters.]