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Yellow Terror Wing Luke Asian Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 11 until Sun., April 18, 10:00am-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
During his tenure at the University of Kansas, Roger Shimomura recently explained, “I met a farmer who asked me what I was and why I spoke English. By then, I’d gone through that conversation so many times as one of the few Asian faces in the Midwest.” A third generation... More >>

The New Old Seattle Asian Art Museum	Every week Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., December 16 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
“The New Old” showcases recent acquisitions at SAAM, most of them Chinese scrolls and pastoral scenes, some dating back to the 17th century. A few cause I-must-be-in-the-wrong-gallery confusion, since “The New New” is displayed on the other side of the museum entryway. In... More >>

Counterbalance Park Counterbalance Park	Daily	Queen Anne	Art
When the little park designed by Murase Associates opened at the corner of Queen Anne and Roy, I was not impressed. The unloved, gravel-covered site had previously been scraped of its gas station (with pollution still beneath) and sat on a highly trafficked and confusing intersection (yes,... More >>

Freeing the Figure Seattle Art Museum	Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 21 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
If the late Northwest painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is sometimes considered a chronicler of the African-American experience, the two dozen works in the Lawrence Gallery place him in a post-war, modernist context. Curator Michael Darling has raided the SAM cellar and pulled out some... More >>

The New New Seattle Asian Art Museum	Every week Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 18 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
One of two exhibits highlighting recent acquisitions at SAAM, “The New New” is the more accessible gallery, featuring works from the ’50s to the present decade. Local artist Akio Takamori’s ceramic Sleeper dozes in the middle of the floor, oblivious to changing times.... More >>

Euan Macdonald Western Bridge	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 16 until Sat., April 17, 12:00pm-6:00pm	SoDo	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Euan Macdonald puts nature in its place for his show “A Little Ramble.” Or puts it out of place. That tension is felt most acutely in the massive, two-story indoor installation that gives the exhibit its name: A fake, snowy peak adorned with taxidermy mountain goats. It’s so... More >>

Bridge Between Cultures King Street Center	Daily	International District	Art
With coal cars and commuter trains rumbling beneath, the Weller Street Overpass connecting the ID to King Street Station isn’t a place where pedestrians tend to linger. Racing across Fourth Avenue South from offices at Amazon.com to catch the last Sound Transit train home, their haste is... More >>

Cultural Transcendence Wing Luke Asian Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., December 17 until Wed., September 29, 10:00am-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
A quintet of artists mount separate installations in “Cultural Transcendence,” a curator’s conceit that doesn’t really unify the five galleries. In one, a video montage addressing the illegal internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In another, CG-created... More >>

Imogen Cunningham Seattle Art Museum	Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., July 11 until Sun., August 29, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Raised in Seattle and educated at the UW, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) wasn’t just a pioneering female photographer, but venerable member of the American avant garde. Sixty images from SAM’s permanent collection span six decades (!) of her work. We see her evolution from the studio... More >>

Vortexhibition Polyphonica Henry Art Gallery	Every week Thursday, Friday, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Vortex WTF? The worst-named new show in Seattle appears at the museum with the worst Web site in Seattle. Whatever happened to clarity and ease of navigation? Less MFA-speak, please, and more apprehensible labels. What the Henry is doing, in these cash-strapped times, is raiding its basement... More >>

Michael Brophy G. Gibson Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Sat., February 13, 11:00am-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Here’s the funny thing about Michael Brophy’s landscapes in “South of Twenty.” His larger works are standard Western vistas of scrub and sky, all very accomplished, rendered in oil, and sized large enough to respect the arid terrain (or your living room). Strong horizon... More >>

Introducing Jacob Lawrence Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., January 6 until Sat., February 13, 12:00pm-4:00pm	University District	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
While the UW is renowned for its medical research and law school, this display of work from first-year students in its MFA program proves there’s talent elsewhere on campus. “Introducing” features a wide range of media—painting, sculpture, video, photography, and more. The... More >>

Fertilizing Utopias SOIL	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., February 3 until Sat., February 27, 12:00pm-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Remember how in Waterworld they used dirt for currency? Earth is an equally precious resource in the group show “Fertilizing Utopias.” Five Northwest artists address environmental themes in the diverse exhibit, suggested by Rimas K. Simaitis, whose low-tech assemblages are the most... More >>

Milton Rogovin Henry Art Gallery	Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 5 until Sun., April 25, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
These days, you don’t see so much traditional, WPA-style documentary photography of the poor and the working class. You also don’t see much photography by centenarians like Milton Rogovin, who turned 100 last December. A Buffalo, New York optometrist, he picked up a camera in the... More >>

Daniel Beltra Photographic Center Northwest	Every week Monday, Friday from Fri., January 22 until Sun., February 28, 12:00pm-9:30pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Seattle’s Daniel Beltra is an assignment photographer for Greenpeace who has spent over two decades documenting man’s devastating impact on the planet. “Amazon: Forest at Risk” is an extensive collection of work based on his repeated travels to Brazil. These beautiful yet... More >>

Taking Aim Experience Music Project	Daily from Sat., February 6 until Sun., May 23, 10:00am-5:00pm	Queen Anne	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
In a show curated by musician Graham Nash, it’s no surprise that the rock ‘n’ roll photos in “Taking Aim” should celebrate his Laurel Canyon heyday. Most are black-and-white, dating from the golden age of album rock. All of which ended with digital cameras and MP3... More >>

Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park	Daily	Downtown	Art
Since opening, the Olympic Sculpture Park has somehow eclipsed and subsumed the identity of Myrtle Edwards Park, which was established (with a different name) back in 1964, when SAM was still a small institution confined to Capitol Hill. The narrow old shoreline park was renamed in 1976 for the... More >>

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Frye Art Museum	Every week Thursday from Sat., January 23 until Mon., May 31, 10:00am-8:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Some high-school classes read the great books, but at Intermediate School No. 52 in the South Bronx, they paint over them. Texts by Malcolm X, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Ralph Ellison, Franz Kafka, and others are torn from their bindings, arranged in collages,... More >>

Water Mover Ernst Park	Daily	Fremont	Art Family Events
Unbuilt lots, even sloped blackberry patches sitting on unstable soil, are fast disappearing in Seattle. Particularly in Fremont, where townhouses sprout like mushrooms, any real-estate resistance is appreciated. Sitting next to the Fremont Branch Library, A.B. Ernst Park was completed four... More >>

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Seattle Print Fair Davidson Galleries	Daily from Fri., February 12 until Sun., February 14	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings Art Openings & Events

Referencing the Past SAM Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., January 14 until Fri., February 12	Downtown	Art Art - Galleries Art - Museums Art - Ongoings

Caleb Larsen Lawrimore Project	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Sat., February 13, 10:00am-5:30pm	SoDo	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings

Matthew Kandegas: Trombones Bleu Form/Space Atelier	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 12 until Sun., March 7	Belltown	Art Art - Ongoings Art Openings & Events

BFF: Excerpts From Friends of the Nib Vermillion	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 11 until Sun., March 7	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Ongoings Art Openings & Events

Wet and Leatherhard Lawrimore Project	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Fri., February 19, 10:00am-5:30pm	SoDo	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings