ARTSHOUND
Cereal and the City: New York pop
artist Michael Albert is coming
through Eugene with his traveling
exhibition, including workshops, 1:30
to 4 pm Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Hult
Center plaza; FREE. Albert is perhaps
best known for his cubist cereal box
collages, or cerealisim, and his
knack for using junk, from junk mail
to old business labels to the Frosted
Flakes box that started it all.
Workshop activities include “an artist
meet and greet, a display of Albert’s
creations, a collage workshop for kids
and adults where everyone will have the
opportunity to create artwork from cereal
boxes and cardboard packaging of iconic
brands, a Sir Real Coloring project and his
famous poster giveaway and signing.”
You’ve come a long way, blue: The cool color
was a late bloomer in the pigment world, arriving
later in the art scene than reds, oranges, yellows
and browns (notice how blue is absent in ancient
cave paintings). The New York Times summed it up in a
2012 exposé on the color: “Whatever its origin, the blue
pigment remained rare and expensive until the dawn of the
industrial age, which probably explains blue’s longstanding association with royalty
and divinity, and possibly why it is a widely favored color today.”
Sniffing out what you shouldn’t
miss in the arts this week
But a team of chemists led by Dr. Mas
Subramanian at Oregon State
University is pushing blue to the
forefront with an accidental discovery of
a new pigment after mixing manganese
oxide with other chemicals and heating
those suckers up to nearly 2,000
degrees Fahrenheit. The color, which
OSU has deemed YInMn blue (for
its chemical structure), is fade
resistant — a great boon for artists
— and has been pitched as a way
to keep buildings cool, as it
reflects heat from the sun. The
Shepherd Color Company has
exclusive licensing rights over the
new color and word is it will be on
the market soon. For more info, visit
bit.ly/2aIrlBT.
Portland’s bilingual Teatro Milagro
(Miracle Theater) will bring the show on the
road with a performance of Mijita Fridita 5:30
pm Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Hult Center plaza; FREE.
Written by Ajai Terrazas Tripathi and directed by Dañel
Malán, the play takes place during the Mexican revolution and is
filtered through the imagination of a young girl bedridden with polio.
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