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WEDNESDAY 7/28Outdoor Art: A Five-Mile Art WalkThe poet Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, "I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree." The Center on Contemporary Art, curators… More >>

By Kevin Phinney

Driving from Austin to Los Angeles? Halfway there, you're still in Texas—that's how much ground the Lone Star State covers. It's a state of mind, too, though its larger-than-lifeness is… More >>

By Brian Miller

She's green, she's nine feet high, and she's got a lot of admirers down at the food court. Kids can't get enough of the Statue of Liberty installed last year… More >>

WEDNESDAY 7/21Visual Arts: Limbo LandBased on the oral histories of two illegal immigrants, Many Uch and Gabriela Cubillos, both incarcerated in local facilities, the journalistic show Detained comprises long excerpts… More >>

By Margaret Friedman

A gaggle of brown-shrouded figures emerges from the woods, hooded, muttering the prologue of the tragedy that turned teen hormones into high art. Appropriately, these voices jostle and abrade one… More >>

By Kevin Phinney

When I was relocating my partner of eight years to Seattle in 2003, we deliberately filled his tank so we wouldn't have to stop anywhere in rural Wyoming. Naturally, we… More >>

By Brian Miller

Forget being worth their weight in gold—what are the mundane objects of modern life really worth, as expressed in gold? Lisa Gralnick's show The Gold Standard, recently extended at BAM,… More >>

WEDNESDAY 7/14Photography: Artful and EndangeredAdorable critters and lovely panoramas are to be found in this environmentally themed group show, but the best work here doesn't seek merely to celebrate nature.… More >>

By Margaret Friedman

Congo is the last place you'd want to go for a field trip. Plagued by epidemic rape and violence since civil war broke out in 1996, more than five million… More >>

By Brian Miller

All those tarped, empty construction pits around town are killing the design trade. Architecture firms are shrinking into their partners' back bedrooms and basements. But the Seattle Architecture Foundation is… More >>