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    Articles by Victoria Ellison
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    Other Voices, Other Rooms
    By Victoria Ellison • November 2, 2010 12:00 am

    The many evocations of SAM’s Picasso show.

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    A rare scene of domestic quiet, from Eishosai Choki.
    The Fleeting, Caught
    By Victoria Ellison • June 16, 2010 12:00 am

    Japanese woodblock prints capture a world of threat and pleasure.

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    Visual Arts Review: K.O.S. at the Frye
    Visual Arts Review: K.O.S. at the Frye
    By Victoria Ellison • May 11, 2010 12:00 am

    Book pages become fields of abstraction and at-risk youth are the art stars.

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    Untitled (Head of Guanyin): You’re in it.
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    By Victoria Ellison • March 23, 2010 12:00 am

    Through her own camera lens, Kiki Smith’s sculptures become mythic material.

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    “Freeing the Figure” at SAM
    “Freeing the Figure” at SAM
    By Victoria Ellison • December 8, 2009 12:00 am

    Taking Jacob Lawrence out of the bounds of history.

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    Visual Arts: Star Systems
    Visual Arts: Star Systems
    By Victoria Ellison • October 27, 2009 12:00 am

    Childlike joy and the search for certainty at SAM.

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    Well-aimed: a still from Blake’s Winchester.
    Visual Arts Review: The Phantom Caller
    By Victoria Ellison • October 20, 2009 12:00 am

    Folk-art tropes jolted into the present.

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    Huyghe’s film: Giving Harvard a hard time.
    Visual Arts: Rite of String
    By Victoria Ellison • July 14, 2009 12:00 am

    Puppets get their say at the Frye.

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    Heathen Chinee Pitcher: celebrating frontier justice.
    Visual Arts: SAM’s Americana
    By Victoria Ellison • May 12, 2009 12:00 am

    Masterpieces you can’t miss alongside Antiques Roadshow foofaraw.

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    An updated stereoscope.
    William Kentridge: the Exhibit
    By Victoria Ellison • March 17, 2009 12:00 am

    Video art—political video art, even—that avoids shrillness.

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    Ravishing Point
    Ravishing Point
    By Victoria Ellison • February 10, 2009 12:00 am

    An orgy of color, light, and detail exhilarates at SAAM.

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    “Active collaborators” in Funk Staden.
    Fleeting Victories
    By Victoria Ellison • December 23, 2008 12:00 am

    Cultures collide at the Frye—and it’s your last two weeks to see the carnage.

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    New York Restaurant (1922).
    Mentally Projected
    By Victoria Ellison • December 2, 2008 12:00 am

    What to see in Hopper paintings you already know too well.

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    Steven Holl's newest sacred space: the Bellevue Art Museum
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    Sandy Skoglund's work shimmers with madness.
    It’s alive!
    By Victoria Ellison • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Consolidated Works proves that life comes in many forms.

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    Lining up
    Lining up
    By Victoria Ellison • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Northwest masters on display.

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    Surf 'n' suds: Marion Peck's playful Bacchanal '79 toys with tradition.
    Reality bites
    By Victoria Ellison • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Two shows turn art history on its ear.

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    What about a Brilliant Blue Persian Wall Installation for your loved one?
    Big Impressions
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    Nothing spells prestige quite like a Chihuly

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    Sperm banks at the Henry: where genetic ethics meet questions of ownership.
    Banks in Pink and Blue
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    Gallery or laboratory?

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    Cuckoo for CoCA: Money changes everything.
    Putting out the fire
    By Victoria Ellison • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    A heated board meeting and a major donation may have saved CoCA from the ashes.

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