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Yellow Terror Wing Luke Asian Museum
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 11 until Sun., April 18, 10:00am-5:00pm |
Pioneer Square |
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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, Id gone through that conversation so many times as one of the few Asian faces in the Midwest. A third generation... More >> |
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The New Old Seattle Asian Art Museum
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Every week Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., December 16 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times |
Capitol Hill |
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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 >> |
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Counterbalance Park Counterbalance Park
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Queen Anne |
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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 >> |
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Freeing the Figure Seattle Art Museum
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Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 21 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown |
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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 >> |
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The New New Seattle Asian Art Museum
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Every week Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 18 until Sun., November 28, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times |
Capitol Hill |
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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 Takamoris ceramic Sleeper dozes in the middle of the floor, oblivious to changing times.... More >> |
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Euan Macdonald Western Bridge
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Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 16 until Sat., April 17, 12:00pm-6:00pm |
SoDo |
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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. Its so... More >> |
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Bridge Between Cultures King Street Center
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International District |
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With coal cars and commuter trains rumbling beneath, the Weller Street Overpass connecting the ID to King Street Station isnt 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 >> |
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Cultural Transcendence Wing Luke Asian Museum
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., December 17 until Wed., September 29, 10:00am-5:00pm |
Pioneer Square |
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A quintet of artists mount separate installations in Cultural Transcendence, a curators conceit that doesnt 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 >> |
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Imogen Cunningham Seattle Art Museum
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Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., July 11 until Sun., August 29, 10:00am-5:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown |
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Raised in Seattle and educated at the UW, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) wasnt just a pioneering female photographer, but venerable member of the American avant garde. Sixty images from SAMs permanent collection span six decades (!) of her work. We see her evolution from the studio... More >> |
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Vortexhibition Polyphonica Henry Art Gallery
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Every week Thursday, Friday, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times |
University District |
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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 >> |
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Michael Brophy G. Gibson Gallery
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Sat., February 13, 11:00am-5:00pm |
Pioneer Square |
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Heres the funny thing about Michael Brophys 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 >> |
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Introducing Jacob Lawrence Gallery
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Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., January 6 until Sat., February 13, 12:00pm-4:00pm |
University District |
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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 theres talent elsewhere on campus. Introducing features a wide range of mediapainting, sculpture, video, photography, and more. The... More >> |
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Fertilizing Utopias SOIL
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Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., February 3 until Sat., February 27, 12:00pm-5:00pm |
Pioneer Square |
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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 >> |
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Milton Rogovin Henry Art Gallery
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Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 5 until Sun., April 25, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times |
University District |
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These days, you dont see so much traditional, WPA-style documentary photography of the poor and the working class. You also dont 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 >> |
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Daniel Beltra Photographic Center Northwest
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Every week Monday, Friday from Fri., January 22 until Sun., February 28, 12:00pm-9:30pm more dates/times |
Capitol Hill |
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Seattles Daniel Beltra is an assignment photographer for Greenpeace who has spent over two decades documenting mans 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 >> |
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Taking Aim Experience Music Project
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Daily from Sat., February 6 until Sun., May 23, 10:00am-5:00pm |
Queen Anne |
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In a show curated by musician Graham Nash, its 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 >> |
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Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park
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Downtown |
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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 >> |
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Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Frye Art Museum
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Every week Thursday from Sat., January 23 until Mon., May 31, 10:00am-8:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown |
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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 >> |
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Water Mover Ernst Park
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Fremont |
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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
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Daily from Fri., February 12 until Sun., February 14 |
Pioneer Square |
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Referencing the Past SAM Gallery
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., January 14 until Fri., February 12 |
Downtown |
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Caleb Larsen Lawrimore Project
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Sat., February 13, 10:00am-5:30pm |
SoDo |
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Matthew Kandegas: Trombones Bleu Form/Space Atelier
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Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 12 until Sun., March 7 |
Belltown |
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BFF: Excerpts From Friends of the Nib Vermillion
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 11 until Sun., March 7 |
Capitol Hill |
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Wet and Leatherhard Lawrimore Project
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 7 until Fri., February 19, 10:00am-5:30pm |
SoDo |
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