So, we’ve been preparing for Paul Goldberger’s lecture tonight on the future of cities in the 21st century. It’s 6 pm tonight in the White Stag building, $25. Why spend that kind of money on an architecture critic whose Sky Line column you can read in the New Yorker? Well, mostly because a lecture [...]
It’s Tuesday night, and we have lots of half-baked posts on our minds. Possibly quarter-baked. OK, totally raw. So, we hit the local channels on the Internet…
Art Scatter has been completely oblivious to the steampunk movement, just generally and specifically as it relates to costume design. And most especially as it relates to the Oregon [...]
Gary Snyder , Lincoln High and Reed College graduate, made a return appearance in Portland Friday. In the Oregonian Jeff Baker reports the discovery of a tape of Gary Snyder reading at Reed College on February 14, 1956. Rather, it is a cassette copy a Reed student made twenty-five years ago from the original reel-to-reel [...]
Let’s say you’re in Portland and you don’t anything on for tonight, or maybe you have something on, but you’re dreading it. Or Saturday night. If you are in that circumstance, then Art Scatter suggests that you drop in on Kidd Pivot, at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium. It’s that good.
Kidd Pivot is the [...]
Most Art Scatter readers know that I work at The Oregonian, right? Editing the writers of the arts staff (and a fine band they are!) insofar as they will let me? I haven’t talked about this much directly, mainly because I didn’t want Art Scatter to be a place where people came to [...]
Our old friend Giuseppe Arcimboldo is on our mind today, as he should be on yours. Arcimboldo, you may recall, is the great fruit and vegetable guy of the 16th century, the painter who made a splendid living by portraying people in botanic form, and he could twist a turnip like nobody’s business if that [...]
(Friend of Art Scatter Martha Ullman West, she who knows a plie from a pirouette like nobody’s business, has recently sojourned in her home town of NYC and brings us back this Big Apple journal from October 21 to November 5, 2008. The city seems familiar, but …)
Can you actually be a tourist in your [...]
Starting with A Mask for Janus, which W.H. Auden picked for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1952, W. S. Merwin’s first poems were written in a traditional mode, many on themes drawn from classical mythology. In the 1960s, Merwin opened up his forms, abandoned formal lines and punctuation, and infused his poems with [...]
The world being what it is, the key question that the sweetest of our antiquities generates is who owns them. Who owns them. Not, what do they mean. Not, how do we preserve them. Not, how do we protect them when they are in the ground. Not, how do we make them [...]
Art Scatter hereby congratulates the winners (and the nominees, for that matter) of this year’s Oregon Book Awards, especially Steve Patterson, whom we track on his Splattworks blog, for winning the drama award for his “Lost Wavelengths.” If you think doing theater is hard in the provinces, writing theater is even less rewarding, and [...]