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Reading Harold Rosenberg’s essay on Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. Rasée (shaved), titled “The Mona Lisa Without a Mustache,” I’ve got some…

APRIL 9, 2018 // Oregon ArtsWatch

John Yau is a poet as well as a supremely prolific art and literary critic. A new collection of his prose, The Wild Children of William…

Lynne Tillman’s fictions read like essays, until they don’t — when they take inward facing, memoiristic turns. Although Lynne writes in…

So honey, it’s lucky how we keep throwing away Honey, it’s lucky how it’s no use anyway Oh honey, it’s lucky no one knows the way Listen…

Ryan McLaughlin’s out-there paintings have a surprising way of invoking the unseen, puzzling the viewer, requiring the most out of…

“All art is of the body.” — Adrian Stokes

“I posses the temporary privilege of speech.” —Anselm Berrigan

On Friday, January 13th, the Littman Gallery hosted “Art & The Political Moment,” a panel discussion between PSU art historian, critic, and…

Considering the president’s blurry hairline, his unaccountable statements and mystifying logic, it’s true what Fairfield Porter says…

There are many reasons a picture might move you. Perceptions come along and are eventually transformed by something else, and sometime it’s…

“Art permits you to accept illogical immediacy, and in doing so releases you from chasing after the distant ideal. When this occurs, the…