Culture Clash Resolved: Art loves Football
Throughout the ages the realms of creative expression and athletic prowess have only shared fleeting glances at one another. For the most part, or at least according to sitcom legend, the artsy fartsy types rarely appreciate the jocks and the jocks pound the artists with the sort of pent-up rage that stems from an inability [...]
Read MoreA Night at the Museum, sans Ben Stiller, add Free Beer
The Portland Art Museum is continuing their rabid pursuit of youth-oriented hi-jinks by assembling, with care and precision, Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum. A special event taking place on September 19th from 6pm until the stroke of midnight. Here’s some words detailing the intricacies of the evening: “The event consists of six [...]
Read MorePortland Art Museum Offers Mindfuck Tutorial
The Portland Art Museum recently opened an exhibit called “Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox” which features a gallery filled to the brim with prints and drawings by Maurits Cornelis Escher (his best buds called him Mauk). He was one of the preeminent artists in the Dutch school of mindfuckery and flunked the second grade. [...]
Read MoreMuppet Muppet + More Muppet
The Northwest Film Center knows what the rest of us don’t. They know that in tumultuous times the masses need a rally cry. A man has to step up and remind us how life should be lived. We as a people need a moral compass. And that man should most assuredly be Jim Henson. Before [...]
Read MoreGauguin: GET SOME
The Portland Art Museum just nabbed a big, fat, juicy Gauguin. A fella named Melvin “Pete” Mark had the funny idea to be generous in these times of woe and he donated the museum an 1884 piece entitled: Vue d’un jardin, Rouen (Garden View, Rouen). It is now sitting pretty in the Impressionism collection on [...]
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