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Harmonious: Jun Kaneko’s works spur ‘freedom of thinking’ amid Japanese garden’s tranquility
Kaneko’s oversized ceramic structures carefully mingle with the green and auburn expanse of the Portland Japanese Garden. They're on display through Feb. 20.

Newport symphony debuts orchestral ode to nature and history
This weekend’s world premiere uses music to explore the painful past treatment of Indigenous peoples who once made Oregon’s Yakona Nature Preserve their homeland.

A Portland affordable housing project spotlights BIPOC lives in art
Las Adelitas is an affordable housing project in Portland's Cully neighborhood. Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz painted the centerpiece; a giant mural that depicts some of Cully's Latino residents. The mural is the final piece of a project meant to give low-income families a chance to find a place to call home.

Portland partners with Lewis & Clark College to decide the future of its toppled statues
Statutes were knocked over and removed during the 2020 racial justice reckoning. Now Portland leaders are trying a new approach to figure out their future.
James Lee Hansen defines the look of Northwest sculpture
James Lee Hansen is one of the Northwest’s most prominent and influential sculptors. His imposing bronze installations are on view at the Portland Art Museum, Maryhill Museum, Clark College and institutions throughout the region. Hansen established his own foundry in Battle Ground, Washington in the 1970s. Today, at age 97, Hansen is proud of the more than 600 sculptures he’s created. “It's a legacy,” he says, “and I think everybody wants to have a legacy.”

A new Banksy mural adorns a destroyed building in Ukraine
Banksy's work, which the artist posted on Instagram Friday to 11.2 million followers, features a gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble with her hands.
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At this Portland art exhibit, you explore virtual worlds to save our real planet
A new high-tech immersive installation takes on climate change in its U.S. premiere at the Portland Art Museum.
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Authors, films and Día de Muertos: Oregon arts and culture events in November
November is just around the corner. OPB producer Donald Orr sat down with OPB All Things Considered co-host Crystal Ligori to discuss upcoming events for people looking to fill their "arts and culture" cups to the brim in the week ahead.

When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what stays on the wall
Students of color at a high school, a law school and two universities have objected to the way historical murals have portrayed Native Americans and African Americans.

The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity
Images Andy Warhol created of Prince are at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. Warhol used a black-and-white portrait taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point.