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The Rural Alberta Advantage Sunset Tavern	Mon., July 6, 9:00pm	Ballard	Music
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 >>

Wind Cradle Seattle Central Community College	Daily	Capitol Hill	Art Art - Ongoings
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 >>

PCNW Thesis Exhibition Photographic Center Northwest	Fri., June 12, 6:00pm-8:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Art
Cheryl Hanna-Truscott spent over six years photographing women in the Washington Corrections Center’s prison nursery program, near Shelton, Wash. These women—most in their 20s and 30s—maintain custody of their children while completing sentences for crimes like auto theft and... More >>

Target Practice Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., September 6, 10:00am-5:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
SAM’s 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 >>

ÜberPortrait Bellevue Arts Museum	Daily from Tue., June 16 until Sun., October 18, 11:00am-5:00pm	Bellevue	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Put an umlaut in the title, and any arts exhibition—or heavy metal band—automatically 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 >>

Andrew Wyeth Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Thu., June 25 until Sun., October 18, 5:00pm-9:00pm	Downtown	Art Art - Museums Art - Ongoings
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was once considered such an important American painter that his work was featured on the cover of Time (“Wyeth’s Stunning Secret”). But today, who reads Time magazine? And who cares for traditional figurative art? Back in 1986, Wyeth was already old and... More >>

Made in U.S.A. Northwest Film Forum	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Thu., July 9, 7:00pm more dates/times	Capitol Hill	Film Film - Art House Film - Events Film - Festivals
“You can fool the movie audience, but not me,” says Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 political noir Made in U.S.A. The film is self-reflexive as well as self-conscious: When characters—more than a few named for Godard’s pet movie personalities—speak, it’s... More >>

Seattle Chamber Music Society Lakeside School	Every week Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Mon., July 6 until Fri., August 14, 8:00pm	North Seattle	Opera
Besting all comers—UW 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 Society’s provided crowd-pleasing... 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 >>

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 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 >>

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 >>

Ann Lislegaard: 2062 Henry Art Gallery	Daily from Sat., April 18 until Sun., August 23	University District	Art
The three computer-animation installations and accompanying three sound rooms by Danish artist Ann Lislegaard are presented as 2062, the year in which they might’ve been created. That future date reflects her inspiration from sci-fi writers Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the... More >>

Changing Form Kerry Park	Daily	Queen Anne	Art
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 >>

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 >>

Adjacent, Against, Upon Myrtle Edwards Park	Daily	Downtown	Art
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 >>

Vertebrae Safeco Plaza	Daily	Downtown	Art
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 >>

Titus Kaphar Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., September 6	Downtown	Art
Race is always an awkward subject at the art museum. That’s 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 >>

Corin Hewitt Seattle Art Museum	Daily from Sat., April 4 until Sun., October 18	Downtown	Art
Two years ago, Corin Hewitt locked himself inside a cramped, cluttered room-within-a-gallery at Portland’s 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 >>

DuPen Fountain Seattle Center	Daily	Queen Anne	Art
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 >>

Fountain of Wisdom Seattle Central Library	Daily	Downtown	Art Family Events
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 >>

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 >>

Stronghold University of Washington Campus	Daily	University District	Art
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 >>

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 >>

Water—the Essence of Life West Seattle Pump Station	Daily	West Seattle	Art
Sure, SAM has its big show “S’abadeb—The 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, I’d seen some of the same faces, birds, and fish, but eventually... More >>

Black Sun Seattle Asian Art Museum	Daily, 6:00am	Capitol Hill	Art
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 (1904–1988) was once considered a rather daring modernist,... More >>