An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and with the tacit approval of his heirs, the museum has now enshrined the artist as a signature for its new $116 million campus.  The project involved