Portland Art Museum

“Waterlilies” (1914-15) by Claude Monet was covered with a varnish at some point, which makes the colors more saturated and intense than when Monet created the piece. At the Portland Art Museum, work is underway to restore the painting's raw colors.

Symbiosis immerses audiences in an extended reality experience that includes not just sight and sound — as in traditional virtual reality — but also touch, taste and smell. Guests explore a landscape 200 years in the future, where they must adapt to a collapsing ecosystem. Symbiosis had its U.S. premiere in November at the Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow.

A new high-tech immersive installation takes on climate change in its U.S. premiere at the Portland Art Museum.

The Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow rents out virtual reality headsets, preloaded with 10 curated immersive VR pieces from around the world, for viewers to try out for a few days at home.

It’s the end of an era in Rip City — the Portland Trail Blazers’ founding broadcaster Bill Schonely has announced his retirement.

Closing a major art museum isn’t nearly as simple as turning out the lights and locking the doors. Protecting fragile, priceless works of art is a full-time responsibility: even if a pandemic pops up and spoils your plans.

Portland Art Museum appoints Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D. as the new curator for Asian art.

The museum's plan to make its buildings more accessible with the Rothko Pavilion ran up against criticism that it would make the city less accessible. Now it's back to City Hall with a revised plan.

Portland ice cream maker Jared Goodman takes inspiration from works of art when creating his elaborate sundaes

Native Fashion Now, a traveling exhibition currently on view at the Portland Art Museum, celebrates more than a half-century of indigenous artists and their work.