Willamette Week is funded by readers like you. Please help us make our fearless local reporting free for everyone. Donate now to the Spring Member Drive. Every yen counts. Visitors to the halls of the Portland Art Museum this summer will notice an exhibit of extraordinary versatility, displaying everything from Martian screen-printed T-shirts to a … Read more
This Mets masterpiece is far prettier than this year’s team so far. The dynamic New York family that helped start Amazins in 1962 is auctioning off nearly a dozen treasures from its storied art collection, including a $35 million Renoir it’s owned for 97 years. Oil painting of 1877 lilac woman or “Portrait of Nini … Read more
Spotting the innovative artist during cocktail hour at the opening gala of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Gallery was like shooting fish in a barrel. Stare over the rim of your glass and you’ll see Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha intimately chatting next to the DJ booth. Mark Bradford struts … Read more
Friday, April 17, 2026 New Bremen museum could have nationwide impact jerry martin NEW BREMEN – There are many unanswered questions about the details of Crown’s new arts and culture center in New Bremen, but one thing is certain: as proposed, the facility will open up a new world of art to Ohio and much … Read more
1942-46 Peggy Guggenheim opens the Art of This Century gallery near New York’s Museum of Modern Art and begins showing Jackson Pollock — soon to be followed by Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. With the emergence of these artists, and others Guggenheim exhibits (Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt), New York effectively replaces Paris as the center of the art business. [-1–> [–> … Read more
How to Be Cultured Menu Art [–> Buffalo Buffalo AKG Art Museum ‘Convergence’ (1952) by Jackson Pollock “This is such a distinctly American painting [below]” says 79-year-old artist Stanley Whitney. “At that time American painters were trying to reinvent painting, and no one can reinvent painting better than Pollock.” [-1–> [–> [-1–>[-1–>[0–>© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists … Read more
How to Be Cultured Menu Art [–> Chinese Literati Painting 900s-Early 1900s One of the longest-running movements in art history, it combined poetry and painting into a single image. “The very idea of a movement that acknowledged the equivalence of poetry, drawing and calligraphy” is “unique,” says Chika Okeke-Agulu, 59, a professor of art history at Princeton University. … Read more
How to Be Cultured Menu Art [–> [-1–> [–> [-1–>[-1–>[0–>© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of Holt/Smithson Foundation. Photo: Nancy Holt Corinne, Utah ‘Spiral Jetty’ (1970) by Robert Smithson “Spiral Jetty” is what Kevin Beasley, 40, a New York-based artist who’s heavily influenced by land art, … Read more
How to Be Cultured Menu Art [–> One of the earliest and most famous conceptual artworks is “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp: a porcelain urinal the artist submitted to an exhibition in 1917. (It didn’t make the cut.) Duchamp believed that “everyday objects [could be] The artist’s chosen actions enhance the dignity of the work of … Read more
Most Angelenos know Frank Gehry as the rebel architect whose deconstructionist architecture revitalized Los Angeles during its turn-of-the-century identity crisis. Few know him as the sentimental sculptor who is the focus of the upcoming Frank Gehry exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills. This will be the first time Gehry’s work will be on display since his … Read more