The Brooklyn Rail has published its review of the 2026 edition of Converge 45, Portland's citywide triennial, which is on view from August 5, 2026 through February 5, 2027 under the title "Here, To you, Now." Curated by Lumi Tan, the exhibition takes its name from a phrase in beloved Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin's 1985 novel Always Coming Home, which imagines a society working to rebuild itself after an ecological disaster. Reviewer Justin Duyao writes that Tan approached the triennial with a focus on how art can bring people together during periods of uncertainty. For the curator, impermanence becomes an opportunity: by gathering people around shared experiences, art can build connections sturdy enough to withstand upheaval and despair. At its strongest, Duyao argues, the triennial treats connection not as an abstract ideal but as something tangible and attainable. Three installations are singled out as making that aspiration especially palpable. Trisha Baga's MORE, presented at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, begins with a disarmingly direct question: what kind of world are we preparing our children to inhabit? Amy Ruhl's Other Spaces and Marcus Fischer's Reliquary at the Veil are cited alongside it, each approaching the theme of togetherness from markedly different directions. Duyao concedes that these connective threads can be difficult to locate across the sprawling program, and other coverage has been sharper still. The Art Newspaper's October 1 review of the same edition highlighted the Portland artist keyon gaskin, who used a performance at Barn Radio to protest a cancelled project and two years of unpaid conversations, and Rose Salane's Afterlife in Public at Reed College's Cooley Gallery, where a pair of Princess Diana's shoes bought at auction was displayed in a local mall while a magician made them vanish. Converge 45, the review concludes, offers stellar individual presentations even as its unifying theme stays elusive.