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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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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 […]
See showtimes for the Tomorrow Theater
3530 SE Division Street
Sep 14, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2024 – Mar 30, 2025
Upcoming
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterThe Untold Tales Of Tūteremoana w/ Mere Tokorahi Boynton
Sep 12, 2024
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Lectures & talksFrench Moderns: Meet the Curator
Sep 13, 2024
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Screenings & experiences Tomorrow TheaterBarbarella Bingo Hosted by Violet Hex
Sep 13, 2024
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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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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
Conservation treatment will focus on the removal of a synthetic varnish, helping restore painter Claude Monet’s intended appearance to his masterpiece “Waterlilies.” The Portland Art Museum (PAM) has been named […]
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Community
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, 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
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Instagram, “My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.”
Romare Bearden would have turned 113 years old on September 2. The artist, writer, and civil rights activist became well known for his series of collages and photomontages portraying Black archetypal figures which he began in his 50s.
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@beardenfoundation_official (American, 1911–1988),” Tidings,” 1973. Screenprint on paper; 15 15/16 × 23 3/4 in. Gift of Forstmann-Leff Associates, 80.27.3
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Instagram, 🌏 World premiere this week—“Te Moana Meridian,” the new experimental opera based on a proposal to the U.N. General Assembly Resolution to formally relocate the international Prime Meridian from the UK to Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean, liberating humanity’s collective means of orienting universal time and space from the hegemonic ambitions of Western imperialism.
Created and directed by @sam.tam.ham, the opera features two principal vocalists singing the written text by the artist, mirroring each other in their receptive languages: @Holland.Andrews in English and @MereTokorahi Boynton in Māori with movement by @sidony_oneal.
In partnership with @PICApdx’s TBA Festival and @boomartspdx.
September 6–9 | Tickets (sliding scale) → link in bio
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Instagram, Join us this Thursday as we welcome Hyunsoo Woo, the Pappas-Sarbanes Director of Collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (@philamuseum).
While a folding screen is one of the popular painting formats in Korea, screen paintings functioned not only as fine artworks but also played many practical roles in the daily life of the Joseon dynasty. This lecture will explore the meanings and symbolism hidden behind their visual charm.
"Unfolding Beauty and Beyond: Korean Screen Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910)"
Thu, September 5, 6–7 p.m.
1119 SW Park Ave.
The Mildred Schnitzer Memorial Lecture in Asian Art is a free event.
Reserve your free ticket → link in bio
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Korean, artist/maker unknown, "Peonies," 1948, color on paper; mounted as a ten-panel screen, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009-238-2. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
[ID: 1. Headshot of Woo in front of painted folding screen. 2. Detail of folding screen painting with colorful flowers.]
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Instagram, 👷 Here’s a sneak peek at a century-old space being transformed into a new art gallery—and how we’re preserving the historic architecture. It’s all part of our campus transformation project slated to open late fall 2025!