The Arts
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Portland's SPACE Gallery: Art as a Civic Institution
by Christian MilNeil / A couple of months ago, I had an idea for an art project: I could use the Google Search API to filter through the 27,400 Image Search results for watercolor paintings of Maine's Monhegan Island, sort them by their dominant hues, and rearrange them in an grid to create a pointillist approximation of a Monhegan Island scene. There were two strikes against this idea ever seeing the light of day: first, I've never considered myself an artist, and second, I was only a novice at the programming languages I would need to pull the necessary data from Google's servers and put the mosaic together.
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Spring = Creative Conversations
by Alice Kornhauser / "Rethinking the Art Gallery in the Digital Age" with panelists Dan Kany, Bridget McAlonan of the Sylvia Kania Gallery and Andy Verzosa of Aucocisco was a fascinating exploration. "Street Art v.
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Conor Oberst Tells the Crowd at the State Theatre Why He's Always Glad to Be in Portland
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Mad Horse Exit Stage Left, Dramatic Repertory Enter Stage Right...
There's been a shift in the theatrical landscape of Portland. Last fall, Mad Horse Theatre Company moved from the Studio Theatre at Portland Stage to the new Lucid Stage off Forest Avenue, and last week, the new Dramatic Repertory Company began the run of their first production at the space that Mad Horse exited.
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SPACE Gallery is Local and Global, Let's Also Call It Nodal
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Portland Pop R&B Singer ILLiJah Keeps it Real with the Kids at Moore Middle School