Heroes and Villains

A good villain tells us a lot about our heroes, and the recent casting of actor Tom Hardy as the villain Bane in Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film may tell us a great deal about what the tone of the film will be.

Cataracts in the garden at Giverny

Students at Portland State University are in rare proximity to four major canvases by French impressionist painter Claude Monet, all of which can be seen at the Portland Art Museum until Jan. 31.

OK, computer

Postmodernism has painted the culture, media and language of our age in shades of indefinable grey.