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Four chords and a dark mirror
Fresh with Color and Light: Chefas Projects
The wrong way/the right way: Memorializing Martin Luther King, Jr
Andy and Prince Go to Court
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
In Defense of Nonsense: John Vitale at Stephanie Chefas Projects
Bev Grant’s Photographic Record of Radicalized New York
Sherrie Wolf at Russo Lee: Wrong in Just the Right Way
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Art, no bore: Inside outsider art
A Moose, a Giraffe, and Miro's Whimsy
Talking paintings and a troubled voice
Art letter: Reflections and gratitude, Next at Gallery 114
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InkBodySkinPaint+Fire: Opens this week at Gallery 114
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Artistic musings and upcoming dates
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art letter | no. 5 2023 | september
“All art is propaganda.” George Orwell
Political art is now “in.” In art schools. In galleries. In museum shows. In the homes of sophisticated collectors. And now, in seventeen venues throughout Portland as our city’s revived biennale, Converge 45, begins an ambitious run through December.
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Read David’s Art Letter essay, Converge 45: To repair a wounded world, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch