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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm
Comprised of recently rediscovered photographs from Paul McCartney’s personal archive, more than 250 pictures invite visitors to intimately experience The Beatles’ meteoric rise from British sensation to international stardom.
1219 SW Park Ave
Sep 14, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
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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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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Exhibitions Partner events2024 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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3530 SE Division Street
Oct 19, 2024 – Mar 30, 2025
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Sep 14, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterThe Big Lebowski w/ Low Bar Chorale
Sep 14, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterClueless // 90s Day w/ Soundtrack Listening Party
Sep 14, 2024
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Lectures & talksLooking Out and Seeing In: American Street Photography in the Immediate Postwar Years
Sep 15, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterDaisies w/ WOO-WOO // Self Care Sunday
Sep 15, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterBarb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Sep 15, 2024
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Rothko PavilionMark Rothko Pavilion Reaches Major Construction Milestone
The Portland Art Museum (PAM), in collaboration with leading developer and builder Mortenson, hosted a “topping out” ceremony yesterday to celebrate the completion of the steel structure for the Museum’s […]
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DiscoverPortland Art Museum receives Bank of America funding for restoration of Monet’s Waterlilies
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Community Update – May 2024
To our community, This spring brought historic recognition for the Portland Art Museum locally, nationally, and internationally. Most notable is our leadership at the Venice Biennale – the most prestigious […]
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Instagram, NOW OPEN: “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm.” Witness the dawn of the “British Invasion” through 250 rediscovered photographs from @PaulMcCartney’s personal archive. On view through January 19.
Plan your visit → link in bio
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Instagram, ⌛ Closing weekend of "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns"!
Sunday, September 15 is your last day to visit French modernist masterpieces from the collection of the @BrooklynMuseum and the adjacent exhibition, "Pissarro to Picasso: Masterworks on Loan from the Kirkland Family Collection."
Plan your visit → link in bio
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Instagram, 🤝 This Friday (9/13), meet Lloyd DeWitt, the Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European & American Art Pre-1930, for informal one-on-one conversations to learn about "Monet to Matisse" in the exhibition galleries. Free with admission.
French Moderns: Meet the Curator | Fri, September 13, 1–2 p.m.
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Instagram, 📸 This Sunday—join us for a *free* program during opening weekend of “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: #EyesOfTheStorm.”
Curator and art historian Lisa Hostetler will discuss American photography of the 1940s and 1950s—which influenced aspects of Paul McCartney’s own photographic growth.
Dr. Hostetler teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology (@rittigers) and was previously Curator in Charge in the Department of Photography at the George @EastmanMuseum as well as the Curator of Photographs at the @MilwaukeeArt Museum.
Her major curatorial projects include “Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America” and “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959.”
Sun, September 15, 2–3:30 p.m. | Free event. Reserve your ticket at the link in bio →
Sponsored by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
[ID: Headshot of Hostetler.]
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Instagram, This week, Beatlemania arrives in Portland!
“@PaulMcCartney Photographs 1963–64: #EyesoftheStorm” is a new exhibition offering an intimate look at The Beatles’ first transatlantic tour. Opening Sat, September 14.
👉 Members see it unlimited times for free! Join or renew at the link in bio →
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📷 Paul McCartney. “Ringo Starr. London,” January 1964. Pigmented inkjet print © 1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP
[ID: B&w photo of Starr smiling with eyes closed.]
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Instagram, Jacob Lawrence’s birthday is on September 7. In 1982 the artist was commissioned to create eight paintings to accompany John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” a book from 1946 documenting six survivors of the first atomic bomb attack.
Lawrence wrote in his prologue: “Because this book is such a strong statement of man's inhumanity to man, I found this work to be a most challenging book to illustrate. In my attempt to meet the challenge, I read and reread ‘Hiroshima’ several times and, in doing so, l began to see great devastation in the twisted and mutilated bodies of humans, birds, fishes and all of the other animals and living things that inherit our earth. The flora and the fauna and the land that were at one time alive, were now seared, mangled, deformed and devoid of life. And I thought, what have we accomplished over these many centuries? We have produced great geniuses in music, the sciences, the arts, dance, literature, architecture and oratory among many other disciplines. And we have in the meantime developed the means to destroy, in a most horrible manner, that life that is our God-given right.”
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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000), “Hiroshima,” 1983. Screenprints and text in a bound book; each sheet 12 1/2 × 9 3/8 in. Gift of Vern Faatz, 2013.46.1a,b
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Instagram, 🌟 Join us for Free First Thursday today (9/5) from 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
From 10 a.m.–2 p.m., enjoy a plein-air painting demonstration amidst the Impressionists by artist Aimee Erickson (@1aim).
Free admission tickets are available online or at the door.
Learn more and reserve → link in bio
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Instagram, From a distance, Kondō’s slab-built vessels mimic the fluidity of an ink painting, with marbleized layers of different colored clays swirling together. On closer inspection, the surface gleams with an extraordinary, incandescent metallic glaze, or what the artist calls “silver mist.”
Composed of silver, gold, and platinum, once heated, the metals form spheres that shimmer like water droplets. Kondō’s work explores not merely the possibilities of clay, but “the concept of water emerging from fire.”
–Jeannie Kenmotsu, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art
📍 See it on view in “Throughlines: Connections in the Collection”
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Kondō Takahiro (Japanese, born 1958), “Wave,” 2022. Marbleized porcelain with “silver mist” overglaze and cast glass; 28 /8 × 12 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. Museum Purchase: Margery Hoffman Smith Fund, 2023.18.1a,b