Something old, new, borrowed, and blue…what I’ve been reading, watching, and thinking about online.

That’s New Dawn from Portland’s Shiny with Will Duncan and 1/3 of Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, Kathleen Keogh.

The Wallace Foundation gives $7.7 million to nine arts groups in Seattle (and the Washington State Arts Commission) to experiment with new forms of audience outreach.

Check out OPENWIDEpdx for photos of the recent Portland Comes to Astoria show, curated by John Brodie as part of a visual arts exchange between the two cities.

Dance critic Martha Ullman West’s memories of Merce Cunningham through the lens of the Great Northwest on Art Scatter.

And Inara Verzemnieks profiles longtime Portland gallerist Mark Woolley in the Oregonian.