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Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
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Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Stacey Steers’ Night Hunter
August 20, 2025Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades...
Badlands Revisited
August 7, 2025Badlands was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo,...
Denver’s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes
August 6, 2025In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s...
A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
July 27, 2025There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
July 10, 2025Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
July 3, 2025By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
June 27, 2025On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...




