Visual Art Search
Chamber Music
Tues–Sun. Through May 19.Museums
Chamber Music is Scott Lawrimore’s first exhibit as the Frye’s curator is a series of translations with an archive in the middle. It’s 36 Seattle artists, each responding to one of the poems in James Joyce’s first published work, Chamber Music, which was put out in 1907—the year Charles and Emma Frye began collecting art. (Lawrimore wins the Most Attenuated Connections award.) In the center of the exhibition is a piece of furniture with benches and cubbyholes, where each artist can house a changing display of whatever’s most important to them. Free.
Nicolai Fechin
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Nicolai Fechin: The last time the Frye did a major exhibition of this eccentric Russian painter’s portraits was in 1976. Nordstrom had gone public five years earlier, Microsoft was a year-old start-up, and Jeff Bezos was an 11-year-old human. The paintings are bright and sometimes very, very weird.
Free.
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London
Wed–Sun. Through May 19.Museums
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London is really two shows: One is a handful of etchings by Rembrandt. They are full of life and warmth and oddness and curvy lines and if you don't love them, so help you god. The rest is big, sometimes haughty paintings by Old Masters like Gainsborough, van Dyck, Hals, Reynolds, and Turner. $15 suggested.
Bearing Witness from Another Place
Wed–Sun. Through Sept 29.Museums
Bearing Witness from Another Place marks the 25th anniversary of James Baldwin's death with an exhibit of Sedat Pakay's photographs of the social critic's self-imposed exile in Turkey.
$6.
Northwest Artists Collect
Wed–Sun. Through Oct 19.Museums
Northwest Artists Collect: The culmination of a year-long collaboration between UW-Tacoma students and the Museum, this exhibition showcases the original work of 7 Pacific Northwest glass artists-including Martin Blank, Joseph Gregory Rossano, and Richard Royal-alongside pieces from their personal collections. $12.
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