Events Calendar

Portland Art Museum presents China Design Now - Portland Art Museum
China Design Now explores the recent explosion of critically compelling design and architecture projects created in China, contextualizing the impact of rapid economic development on these projects in the country’s major cities. This immersive, multi-sensory exhibition captures a dynamic phase in China, as it opens up to global influences and responds to the hopes and dreams of its new urban middle class.

EVENT DAY(S): 10/11/09 - 01/17/10 LOCATION: Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205 Map It!

HOURS: Mon CLOSED Tue 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wed 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM Fri 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sun 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM PHONE: 503.226.2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Adult - $15 (includes general admission Seniors (55+) and Students (18 and older with ID) - $12 (includes general admission)*

Portland Art Museum presents 24 City - Portland Art Museum
This film is presented in conjunction with the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Zhang Ke’s cameras capture the last days of a storied airplane factory in Chengdu, Sichuan, by zeroing in on the people who used to work there—and the people who will move into the new apartments that will take its place—making palpable both irretrievable loss and irresistible progress.

EVENT DAY(S): 11/22/09 LOCATION: Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR Map It!

HOURS: 4:30pm PHONE: 503-226-2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free for members or with Museum admission. Film only: $8 general, $7 students and seniors.

Portland Art Museum presents Manufactured Landscapes - Portland Art Museum
This film is presented in conjunction with the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China as he shoots the evidence and effects of massive industrial revolution.

EVENT DAY(S): 11/29/09 LOCATION: Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR Map It!

HOURS: 4:30pm PHONE: 503-226-2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free for members or with Museum admission. Film only: $8 general, $7 students and seniors.

Portland Art Museum presents San Yuan Li - Portland Art Museum
This film is presented in conjunction with the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. The site of the 1841 Opium War that led the revolt against colonial British authority, SanYuan Li Village is a “village-amid-the-city” that is typical of the urbanization process in Guangzhou in Southern China.
Also showing "Whose Utopia?" and "Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest."

EVENT DAY(S): 12/05/09 LOCATION: Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR Map It!

HOURS: 2pm PHONE: 503-226-2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free for members or with Museum admission. Film only: $8 general, $7 students and seniors.

Portland Art Museum presents I Love Beijing - Portland Art Museum
This film is presented in conjunction with the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Taxi driver Dezi circuits between Beijing’s new, affluent districts and the old, poor parts of a city with a vanishing past and a rapidly arriving future.

EVENT DAY(S): 12/10/09 LOCATION: Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR Map It!

HOURS: 7pm PHONE: 503-226-2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free for members or with Museum admission. Film only: $8 general, $7 students and seniors.

Portland Art Museum presents Perpetual Motion - Portland Art Museum
This film is presented in conjunction with the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. In this Chinese Sex and the City, a woman suspecting that her husband is having an affair invites the three suspects to lunch, hoping to uncover the other woman.

EVENT DAY(S): 12/13/09 LOCATION: Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR Map It!

HOURS: 4:30pm PHONE: 503-226-2811 ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free for members or with Museum admission. Film only: $8 general, $7 students and seniors.