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The Rural Alberta Advantage Sunset Tavern |
Mon., July 6, 9:00pm |
Ballard |
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Take a look at any review of The Rural Alberta Advantage's debut, Hometowns, and the ready-made witticism what's the advantage to living in Rural Alberta?; is sure to pop up. It doesn't seem that the proud Albertans mind the question; rather, they invite and attempt to answer it... More >> |
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Wind Cradle Seattle Central Community College |
Daily |
Capitol Hill |
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Wind Cradle looks like six giant blades of grass, or the magnified cartoon facial hairs of a razor commercial. The thrill of the piece is seeing something so small and delicate rendered as a monument in stainless steel. But indestructible as it looks, fashion has conspired against Wind Cradle.... More >> |
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PCNW Thesis Exhibition Photographic Center Northwest |
Fri., June 12, 6:00pm-8:00pm more dates/times |
Capitol Hill |
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Cheryl Hanna-Truscott spent over six years photographing women in the Washington Corrections Centers prison nursery program, near Shelton, Wash. These womenmost in their 20s and 30smaintain custody of their children while completing sentences for crimes like auto theft and... More >> |
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Target Practice Seattle Art Museum |
Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., September 6, 10:00am-5:00pm |
Downtown |
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SAMs big summer show is awfully specific about its themes and dates: Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78. After the Abstract Expressionists got done gobbing on the paint, a new generation began scraping it off and, ultimately, probing through the picture frame. With nine... More >> |
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ÜberPortrait Bellevue Arts Museum |
Daily from Tue., June 16 until Sun., October 18, 11:00am-5:00pm |
Bellevue |
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Put an umlaut in the title, and any arts exhibitionor heavy metal bandautomatically becomes more interesting. ÜberPortrait packages together three local and eight international artists to intentionally fractured effect. One decapitated head is the size of a Smart... More >> |
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Andrew Wyeth Seattle Art Museum |
Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., October 18, 5:00pm-9:00pm |
Downtown |
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was once considered such an important American painter that his work was featured on the cover of Time (Wyeths Stunning Secret). But today, who reads Time magazine? And who cares for traditional figurative art? Back in 1986, Wyeth was already old and... More >> |
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Made in U.S.A. Northwest Film Forum |
Daily from Fri., July 3 until Thu., July 9, 7:00pm more dates/times |
Capitol Hill |
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You can fool the movie audience, but not me, says Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godards 1967 political noir Made in U.S.A. The film is self-reflexive as well as self-conscious: When charactersmore than a few named for Godards pet movie personalitiesspeak, its... More >> |
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Seattle Chamber Music Society Lakeside School |
Every week Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Mon., July 6 until Fri., August 14, 8:00pm |
North Seattle |
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Besting all comersUW tried a summer contemporary-arts festival for a few years, Tacoma made a one-season attempt at a summer concert series in 2001, and remember the International Music Festival of Seattle (snif)?the Seattle Chamber Music Societys provided crowd-pleasing... More >> |
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The Passage Burien Interim Art Space |
Daily from Sat., January 24 until Thu., December 31 |
South King County |
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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 cant raise the money to raze or build on them. Look around Seattle, and youll see a lot of empty storefronts. Or as... More >> |
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Counterbalance Park Counterbalance Park |
Daily |
Queen Anne |
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When the little park designed by Murase Associates opened at the corner of Queen Anne and Roy this July, 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... More >> |
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Water Mover Ernst Park |
Daily |
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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Ann Lislegaard: 2062 Henry Art Gallery |
Daily from Sat., April 18 until Sun., August 23 |
University District |
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The three computer-animation installations and accompanying three sound rooms by Danish artist Ann Lislegaard are presented as 2062, the year in which they mightve been created. That future date reflects her inspiration from sci-fi writers Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the... More >> |
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Changing Form Kerry Park |
Daily |
Queen Anne |
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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 >> |
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Bridge Between Cultures King Street Center |
Daily |
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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Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park |
Daily |
Downtown |
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Since opening last year, 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... More >> |
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Vertebrae Safeco Plaza |
Daily |
Downtown |
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Henry Moore has been dead for 22 years. The British sculptor (1898-1986) is not someone whose name you often hear these days. Once a progressive, modernist force, not a conceptualist or particularly clever, his legacy seems tied to the avant-garde innovations of the 20s and 30s,... More >> |
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Titus Kaphar Seattle Art Museum |
Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., September 6 |
Downtown |
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Race is always an awkward subject at the art museum. Thats a dilemma that 33-year-old African-American artist Titus Kaphar addresses squarely in his paintings. His History in the Making exhibit comes courtesy of the first Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship. During... More >> |
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Corin Hewitt Seattle Art Museum |
Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., October 18 |
Downtown |
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Two years ago, Corin Hewitt locked himself inside a cramped, cluttered room-within-a-gallery at Portlands Small A Projects. He had a refrigerator, stove, groceries, various cooking implements, several cameras, and images of Native American baskets to copy (along with some Goodwill wicker... More >> |
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DuPen Fountain Seattle Center |
Daily |
Queen Anne |
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Seattle Center is in upheaval. The Sonics have gone to Oklahoma, KeyArena is struggling to find new events to fill the revenue gap, Memorial Stadium is crumbling, the Fun Forest will soon close, and the ongoing Century 21 makeover plan is gonna take a whole lot of money to implement. But in... More >> |
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Fountain of Wisdom Seattle Central Library |
Daily |
Downtown |
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Four years have passed, and the downtown library designed by Rem Koolhaas has agreeably woven itself into the urban fabric. You may not like the ramps or shelving or noise inside, but tourists love to photograph the glassy, faceted exterior, and most architectural critics agree on its modernist... More >> |
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The Wall of Death University Bridge |
Daily |
Eastlake & South Lake Union |
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Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public art in Seattle. Its 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 >> |
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Stronghold University of Washington Campus |
Daily |
University District |
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The original UW campus downtown was once covered with old-growth timber, as was its present location when the school moved north in 1895. Now, as that institution continues its inexorable sprawl south of Pacific Street toward Portage Bay, New York artist Brian Tolle reminds us of that arboreal... More >> |
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Department of Forensic Morphology Annex University of Washington Campus |
Daily |
University District |
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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 >> |
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Waterthe Essence of Life West Seattle Pump Station |
Daily |
West Seattle |
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Sure, SAM has its big show SabadebThe Gifts, but some of that same Salish iconography shows up elsewhere in town, and for free. It took me a while to recall where, during a past West Seattle bike ride, Id seen some of the same faces, birds, and fish, but eventually... More >> |
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Black Sun Seattle Asian Art Museum |
Daily, 6:00am |
Capitol Hill |
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As the most touched, caressed, and fondled piece of public art in Seattle, I would nominate Black Sun, installed at the old SAM (now SAAM) on Capitol Hill back in 1969. Hard to remember now, but American-born sculptor Isamu Noguchi (19041988) was once considered a rather daring modernist,... More >> |