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Portland Art Museum

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Museum Apologizes for Asking Native Mother to Remove Traditional Baby Carrier

by Rhea Nayyar March 14, 2023March 17, 2023

A staff member at the Portland Art Museum told her the basket violated the museum’s “no backpacks” policy.

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Powerful Visions of Reclaimed Narratives by Indigenous Artists

Avatar photo by Julie Schneider May 4, 2022May 9, 2022

The artists in Mesh collectively delve into connections to land and to community, pushing back against colonizing forces, and reclaiming their own narratives and power.

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Mexican Modernism Was More Than Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

by Rosa Boshier March 14, 2022March 15, 2022

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism feeds into the repeated use of Kahlo and Rivera’s work, and the mythology of their romantic relationship, as shorthand for an entire era.

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Hank Willis Thomas Opens Up Space for Interpretation, Which Is Sometimes Risky

Avatar photo by Erin Langner November 26, 2019November 25, 2019

When we have more opportunity to interact with art on our own terms, there are more places to hide from its difficult truths, particularly viewers who have the privilege to do so.

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Shining a Light on Portland’s Art Scene: 10 Exciting Venues in the Rose City

by Raechel Herron Root October 22, 2019October 23, 2019

This compilation of venues ranges from stalwart museums to emerging artists’ collectives, offering a cross-section of the spaces defining art in Portland now. 

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How Printmaking Became Popular After the Great Depression

by Joanne B. Mulcahy August 5, 2019August 6, 2019

The Associated American Artists wanted to bring art to every home.

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Portland Art Museum Gets a New Rothko Pavilion, and Loans of His Work to Go with It

by Jillian Steinhauer October 6, 2016October 7, 2016

The institution announced an expansion project named after one of the most famous postwar American artists: Mark Rothko.

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Three Native American Artists Challenge a White Ethnographer’s Legacy

by Jennifer Rabin April 15, 2016April 20, 2016

PORTLAND, Ore. — If you type the words “Native American” into Google image search, the majority of the results will be Edward Curtis photographs

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The Evolution of the Museum Visit, from Privilege to Personalized Experience

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 22, 2016January 23, 2016

What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age.

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In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American Art

by Sheila Regan June 26, 2015July 11, 2017

Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream art museums present Native American art.

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Cracking Open the Seductive History of Porcelain

by Sarah Archer November 24, 2014November 27, 2014

MEISSEN, Germany — Of his extensive collection of ceramics, Oscar Wilde once remarked: “I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.” What Wilde felt he was increasingly failing to “live up to” was probably the sort of bourgeois respectability that is often symbolized by a set of good porcelain.

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Oregon Brings Home the Bacon (Triptych)

by Mostafa Heddaya December 17, 2013December 17, 2013

Everyone’s favorite triptych will be taking a trip to Portland, Oregon, the New York Times has reported.

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