If asked to describe an ideal antiquing destination, it would be a small town with historic buildings and a dozen or more individually owned shops. Drive about a half-hour south of Portland, Oreg...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/04/01/antiquing-aurora-oregon/
Hubu Mountain is outside of the South Gate of the ancient city Xuzhou, my hometown. Today it is part of the downtown core with 900,000 people. To call it a mountain is an overstatement. It is mor...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/03/30/china-tao-bao-antiquing-in-xuzho-a-personal-experience/
In the recently reimagined American Galleries at the Seattle Art Museum, we’re presented with a monumental early 20th-century work by Thomas Eakins, hung beside a contemporary painting by Kehin...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/03/21/eakins-and-wiley-at-the-seattle-art-museum/
Portland-based artists Sean McGonigal and Joanne Radmilovich Kollman made the New York Times recently. As former occupants in the Troy Laundry Building, they once had working space in what has no...
The picturesqueness of the Pacific Northwest shorelines is not just for summer. During winter, when dark rolling clouds loom low, it sends endless energy to the sea. Storm-watching is a well-kept...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/03/14/fragments-of-the-sea-ii-by-david-haughton/
Spring is in the air. On Thursday, the night was dry and warm, a welcome change to greet visitors of the First Thursday Art Walk in the Pearl. It couldn’t be better for a group of young girls, ...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/03/09/portland-art-openings-march-2024/
The signs on the airport luggage carts read “Welcome to friendly Los Angeles.” For sure, the City of Angels is its own kind of place with some degree of “friendly.” With warm sunlight and...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/02/20/eyes-on-the-la-art-show/
This year the Portland Fine Print Fair at the Portland Art Museum was a little more familiar. With the same venue, location, and largely the same select group of dealers, there wasn’t much of a...
https://urbanartantiques.com/2024/01/30/full-circle-at-the-portland-fine-print-fair/
Was it just me or was I noticing more chandeliers visible from the sidewalk? An article in The Atlantic, Why Rich People Don’t Cover Their Windows, may have the answer. It seems “Americans wh...
A work by American portrait painter Thomas Sully had me wondering if the 19th-century Philadelphian could have had an outsized influence on fashion advertising. Long before Modigliani and best kn...