When we go out to see art, we go for the art. We love to see it, interact with it, be changed by it. But second best to the art is the talking about the art. Like food, wine, or a big bag of candy—art is better when shared. This year's Spring Arts Preview contains profiles of art and performance shows you'll want to go out to see and discuss, and an even more vast.
"It's like in that Jay-Z song Dirt off Your Shoulder," I told my boss. "'Allow me to reintroduce' Portland's art scene." The whole pitch would have gone better if I'd just stopped there, and not tried to explain Jay-Z's '90s era "Hov" nickname. Much like the motherfucking greatest, Portland's art scene never went away. Yet reintroduction is where many Portlanders find themselves, as they sink into familiar or refurbished theater seats, when they walk into.
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