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Transparent Pavilion Transforms PAM’s Public Face
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR - New spaces opening Nov 20
Portland Art Museum bounces back to its best, starting Nov 20, with a major art rehang and building remodel. The glass-fronted Rothko Pavilion replaces the old courtyard with an inviting entrance, giving the museum a more stately appearance on the famous South Park Blocks. The pavilion also links the two halves of the museum, which have fl oors at di erent levels. They were connected by a tunnel, which many visitors didn’t know about, thus missing the modern art collection. The three-storey building’s 24-foot-tall windows are made of the same kind of glass used at Apple stores. If that sets your electronic wallet afl utter, a new, gourmet café has replaced the old food hatch. It sits beside the expanded gift shop, which, as all...
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Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong
Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA - To Feb 22, 2026
Carey Wong is an architect of worlds. As a stage designer for plays, operas, ballets and musicals, he has created scenic environments for over 300 productions in a career spanning 50 years. With alchemical wizardry, he synthesizes a director’s aesthetic vision with the psychological perspective of the playwright, distilling them into a logistical map for the many craftspeople tasked with building the physical framework of a drama. In Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre, viewers see how a set design arises from drawings on paper to exquisitely detailed, 3-D scale models—creative iterations that will bloom into the spectacle of live theatre. “I get to work with people who are creative: all the shop personnel, the carpenters, the painters, the props people, the actors, the...
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Cui Jinzhe: The 36 Days I Roam
Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton, AB - Jan 16 – Feb 28, 2026
In The 36 Days I Roam – Chapter 2, her artist’s book (scroll) from 2023, Cui Jinzhe merges calligraphy and dreamlike vignettes into a continuous visual journey. Inked mountains, ancient temples and mythical creatures unfold in lyrical progression across pale parchment. Through interplays between line and rhythm, Jinzhe combines the visual language of traditional Chinese painting with contemporary modes of abstraction and graphic expression. In this forthcoming exhibition, Jinzhe transforms the gallery into an immersive, living scroll where painting, Chinese calligraphy, poetry and performance intertwine to explore the relationships between pictorial imagery, tactile materials and architectural form. Rooted in her ongoing series of the same title, The 36 Days I Roam reflects Jinzhe’s fascination with how traditional practices can be reimagined through time-based configurations and...
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Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945)
The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC - Nov 7, 2025 – Feb 1, 2026
This touring exhibition, arriving after stops at the Image Centre, in Toronto, and Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, features over 100 photographs from the most productive years of Lee Miller’s career. Guest curated by Gaëlle Morel and organized in collaboration with the Lee Miller Archive, in England, the exhibition seeks to reposition Miller from a bit player in the life of Surrealist artist Man Ray to that of an artist with her own insights and sensibilities, the author of her own narrative arc. “The time is right,” writes Morel, “to finally complicate and deepen our understanding of this important photographer. The exhibition isn’t about mythologising an artist, but about providing Miller due credit. She made an indelible impact on our visual culture through all of her...
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