If ever there was reason to hustle indoors and appreciate some good art and design, it’s this weekend’s erratic weather. Thunderstorms one moment, sun the next. Continuing that dialectic theme is this paired poster display in the Northwest Rooms (up above the Vera Project, just north of KeyArena). Curated by local artist Daniel Smith, the exhibit pairs up work by Seattle and Russian artists, most of it for rock shows.You’ll recognize local names like Jeff Kleinsmith, Coby Schultz, and Barry Ament, who’ve designed for prominent local bands from the grunge era forward. Their Russian counterparts incorporate the bold elements of old Soviet propaganda posters and the Constructivist tendencies of Aleksandr Rodchenko and company. But there are also signs of privation and hardship during the post-Soviet era: Music as a form of necessary psychological escape, rather than just another product you buy on CD or concert ticket.There’s also humor; after the jump, two national maps poke fun at the stereotypes of the former CCCP and good ole USA….First, how our Russian cousins might see our land of excess:(The red push-pins are for gallery visitors to indicate their allegiances, origins, preferences, misconceptions, and beliefs.) And second, how we fat cat capitalists perhaps unfairly judge our Slavic friends across the Pacific:The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show Northwest Rooms, 11am-8pm.