Transit Trip

A Fall Day in Troutdale via TriMet’s 77

Find celery lore, lots of happy dogs, and no line at Sugarpine.

11/17/2025 By Margaret Seiler

Institutions

10 Must-Visit Museums in Portland

Museum-hopping without leaving city limits, from OMSI to the Zymoglyphic Museum.

11/11/2025 By Conner Reed and Matthew Trueherz

Pinball Wizard

Next Level Pinball Museum Is Oregon’s Finest Arcade

It's not just about the games—Next Level is a temple of pop culture and a nerdy parent's dream.

11/07/2025 By Jordan Michelman Photography by Michael Novak

Best of PDX

Your Quintessential Portland Bucket List: 50 Things to Do in Town

These are our city's can't-miss activities, whether you’ve lived here all your life or are just passing through.

10/27/2025 By Portland Monthly Staff

things to do

A Posthumous Book from Geek Love Author Katherine Dunn

Also: Demetri Martin, and other events in town this week.

10/02/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Arts Preview

Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Fall

An Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition, TBA, hagfish slime sculptures, and several very punk-rock women of hybrid identity.

08/06/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

In Search Of

The Dress that Found Me

Seventeen years ago, I fell for a photo of a dress. I didn’t know I was searching for a piece of Portland fashion history.

06/23/2025 By Carmel Breathnach

Arts Preview

6 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Summer

An archival feminist exhibit, Eugene’s “lesbian mecca,” 50 years of trans photography, and more.

05/13/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Museums

10 Can't-Miss Oregon Museums Outside of Portland

Could we interest you in the world's largest pig hairball? Perhaps a gravity-defying X-Files fixation?

03/25/2025 By Portland Monthly Staff

arts preview

5 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Spring

More Monet at PAM, Dinh Q. Lê’s anti-propaganda, and the Holocaust’s long shadow.

02/11/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

at the museum

Please, Play with the Art

A new show at PSU’s Schnitzer museum celebrates play as a critical life force, and a means of political resistance.

01/30/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

year in review

Portland Artists and Curators on their Favorite Shows from 2024

The art world moves fast. These are the shows that left their mark in the past year.

12/23/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Deep Fake

We Took a Spin Around OMSI’s Plastic Ice Rink

The Swiss-made synthetic surface is Glice, Glice, baby.

12/17/2024 By Margaret Seiler

LGBTQ+

Correcting the Transgender History of Westward Expansion

An exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society places trans identity at the heart of the American mythos.

11/26/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Arts Preview

6 Art Gallery and Museum Shows to See in Portland This Winter

The season breaks from the regular art-going schedule, with a play-themed museum show, otherworldly paintings, and a chess party.

11/21/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Au Musée

Getting Handsy with Monet’s Water Lilies at PAM

Stripping unwanted varnish gives the Impressionist masterpiece new life, and peels back some of the painting’s intimidating context.

10/14/2024 By Matthew Trueherz Photography by Jason Hill

At the Museum

The Portland Art Museum Is Having a Very French Summer

At the center of four shows is a traveling exhibit of fan-favorite Impressionist paintings. There are plenty of dots to connect, Monet to Bonnard.

07/31/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Transit Trip

We Took Amtrak to Oregon City for $2

And, besides the municipal elevator, we found cookie jars, boob art, dive bars, and quirky T-shirts.

04/30/2024 By Margaret Seiler

Houses with History

Where Governors Go Shopping: The Oregon Historical Society Vault

Mahonia Hall’s new residents don’t go to a regular furniture store.

05/23/2023 By Byron Beck

Visual Art

Latest Schnitzer Museum Art Exhibit Works to Demystify Technology through Weaving

Weaving Data traces computer technology back to 19th-century looms, giving an entry point to the intimidating technology industry.

02/10/2023 By Matthew Trueherz