Portlander's pay close attention to Tyler's take on the the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo. It is the exact opposite situation of the Portland Art Museum, which needs to reach out to the ever increasing young/savvy art conscious workforce that Portland continues to attract (we are gaining rather than than losing to larger cities like New York and LA). My sense from our jam packed lunch a while back is that PAM's new director Brian Ferriso is well aware of this situation and plans to act in the near future...it has been years since a major contemporary show at the museum (Though Roxy Paine, Hirst and Kehinde Wiley are more than just hors d'oeuvres, call em brunch?).

Also, stay tuned for my review of one of those transplanted upstate New Yorkers today.