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Dan Grayber Monarch Studio	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., November 5 until Sat., December 26, 11:00am-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Powered by gravity, counterweights, and springs, the tabletop sculptures of San Francisco artist Dan Grayber cling to concrete walls and climb up corners. They’re like metal, mechanical spiders, delicately balanced and often displayed under glass. It’s total guy art, like something... More >>

The Passage Burien Interim Art Space	Daily from Sat., January 24 until Thu., December 31	South King County	Art Family Events
Leaving aside the issue of grants and funding, maybe our current recession could be a good thing for the arts. Or at least for sites and venues owned by developers who can’t raise the money to raze or build on them. Look around Seattle, and you’ll see a lot of empty storefronts. Or as... More >>

Michelangelo, Public and Private Seattle Art Museum	Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., October 22 until Sun., January 31, 10:00am more dates/times	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
On loan from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence (which bears the artist's surname), these studies and sketches for the Sistine Chapel amount to a lot of presentation of very little work. The finished ceiling, painted during 1508-12, is what matters; and there's a large photo of the final product.... More >>

Allan Sekula Henry Art Gallery	Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., October 8 until Sun., January 31, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Ten years later, what exactly did the WTO protests accomplish? Paul Schell and Norm Stamper lost their jobs after the tear gas wafted away. Charlize Theron later starred in the Crash-like melodrama Battle in Seattle. But if we’re not mistaken, globalization continues even more inexorably;... More >>

Evan Blackwell Gallery4Culture	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., November 5 until Fri., November 27, 9:00am-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings
Clearly a master magpie, Evan Blackwell assembles old shoes, plastic drinking straws, coat hangers, and construction detritus so cleverly that you forget to ask what, exactly, these assemblages mean. His show "Lost in Space" takes the humblest found materials and then reconfigures them into... More >>

Department of Forensic Morphology Annex University of Washington Campus	Daily	University District	Art
You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which... More >>

Laura Musselman Solo	Sat., November 7, 8:00pm more dates/times	Queen Anne	Art Art - Ongoings
After several years of traveling around her native Midwest in pursuit of Northwest bands like The Long Winters and Death Cab for Cutie, SW contributing photographer Laura Musselman finally decided to relocate to Seattle. That was three years ago. After that, “I took my camera every time I... More >>

New Work by Five Gallery Artists SAM Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Wed., November 11 until Fri., December 11, 10:30am-5:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
One upon a time, aristocrats built romantic ruins, called "follies," on their perfectly manicured estate grounds. Today we have the Rust Belt and recession to do the work for us. Local photographer Dan Hawkins ventured to Detroit (where else?) to shoot his images of post-industrial... More >>

Spaced Out! Experience Music Project	Daily from Sat., August 15 until Sun., January 3, 10:00am-5:00pm	Queen Anne	Art Family Events Museum Exhibits & Events
It’s refreshing to seen a museum exhibit that doesn’t pretend to offer great music or great art. Culled from the collection of an L.A. music industry executive, Spaced Out! The Final Frontier in Album Covers cheerfully acknowledges its own kitsch and nostalgia value. Thrusting... More >>

UW: Photomedia Benham Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., November 4 until Sat., December 5, 11:00am-6:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
In a gallery that's about to close after a 22-year run, the images by local photographer Michael Van Horn are appropriately empty and forlorn. There are traces of people who've left or might reenter the frame; their handiwork includes Post-It Notes affixed to a car's windshield, a bit of... More >>

Changing Form Kerry Park	Daily	Queen Anne	Art Art - Ongoings
The most popular viewpoint in the city is often a bore for kids. Whenever I walk up to Kerry Park, on the south prow of Queen Anne Hill, shutterbugs, wedding parties, and sightseers are intent on the panoramic view. Watch what the children do, however, when they squirm free of parental grasp or... More >>

Eirik Johnson Henry Art Gallery	Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., October 29 until Sun., January 31, 11:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	University District	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Raised in Seattle and a UW grad, Eirik Johnson's photographs in "Sawdust Mountain" chronicle the decline of the Northwest timber industry—or rather, its bleak aftermath. On the Olympic Peninsula and beyond, we see the depopulated, clear-cut remnants of our region's century-long logging... More >>

Bill Finger PUNCH Gallery	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., November 5 until Sat., November 28, 12:00pm-5:00pm	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Galleries Art - Ongoings
Making movies is expensive. But if you take a single movie scene, reduce it down to about 1/32 scale, the tabletop tableau becomes quite manageable. In the miniatures he's constructed and photographed for "Gravity Wins," local artist Bill Finger shrinks down famous or typical movie settings.... More >>

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act Seattle Art Museum	Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., October 15 until Sun., April 11, 10:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Art Art - Ongoings
Culled mostly from the collection of local SAM benefactors John and Mary Shirley, this is a show you'd rather see outdoors--perhaps with Calder's Eagle at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Black circles on the floor indicate the forbidden zone where, if you ventured inside, one of Calder's giant... More >>

The Wall of Death University Bridge	Daily	Eastlake & South Lake Union	Art
Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public art in Seattle. It’s only visible to those on the Burke-Gilman Trail and UW students and staffers traversing down to the Portage Bay side of campus. It gets almost no sun, and even less... More >>

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 >>

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Amy Rice: You May Be Surprised at What You Grow to Love Bluebottle Art Gallery & Store	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., November 3 until Sun., November 29	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Ongoings

Thuy-Van Vu: Accumulations G. Gibson Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 15 until Sat., November 21	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings

Maylee Noah & Spike Mafford: Vida Mirada: Photographs of Oaxaca & Michoacan Gallery 110	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., October 28 until Sat., November 21	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings

Ken Kelly: Painting Howard House	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., November 5 until Sat., November 28	Downtown	Art Art - Ongoings

Urban Presence Bherd Studios	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., November 13 until Wed., December 23	Greenwood & Phinney Ridge	Art Art - Ongoings

David Belisle: Musicians and Landscapes Easy Street Records & Cafe	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 5 until Mon., November 30	West Seattle	Art Art - Ongoings

Tess Martin: A Moment's Reverie & Gaijin/ The Foreigner Gallery4Culture	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 5 until Fri., November 27	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings

Karen Sargsyan: Abroad Understanding Ambach and Rice	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., October 24 until Sat., November 28	Ballard	Art Art - Ongoings

Ross Sawyers: Contained Within Platform Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 15 until Sat., November 28	Pioneer Square	Art Art - Ongoings