Monthly Archives: September 2008

After a slew of promises to listen to me and do what I say, I loaded my nephews in the car and headed off to The Works for some daytime kid-centered fun, their parents gleefully waiving us goodbye. Ethan, 5 … Continue reading →

I love tiny tba. I’m a preschool teacher and I’m always looking for ways to bring real art and grown-up friendly music into my school. Finding the good stuff can be a challenge. I was excited about this year’s line-up, … Continue reading →

Superamas: BIG 3rd Episode (happy/end) 09.12.08 at Lincoln Hall Auditorium 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by Patrick Sullivan All Rights Reserved, PICA You really need to go see this show tonight. No really. If you’re a TBA fan, you … Continue reading →

Photo: Patrick Sullivan posted by patrick leonard As the fog billows up just outside a set of sliding glass doors, the audience witnesses a purely-Kubrick moment. A cosmonaut, in illuminated helmet, carefully explores a suburban patio to the swelling strings … Continue reading →

Dance-offs, Deconstruction, and Reiteration: Oh My! By Wayne Bund I don’t know where to start. Feisty dance offs. Gorgeous actors on stage repeatedly undressing and exposing themselves. A lip-synched lecture of Jacque Derrida given from an exercise machine. A reenacted … Continue reading →

Such a pleasing mess. I’ll be the first to admit that I am not usually a fan of large-scale chaotic installations that streamline sculpture and painting into something unrecognizable. Yet the latest creation by the artist collective PAINTALLICA, on view … Continue reading →

Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men is the first major exhibition by the largely faceless group of international impostors and I couldn’t be more pleased that it’s happening in Portland and in conjunction with TBA. The Yes … Continue reading →