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Visual Art Events Saturday, Oct 31

Abroad Understanding

Green star Abroad Understanding

Tues–Sun. Through Nov 28.
789-6242
Free
Karen Sargsyan's large sculptures made of cut, torn, and rolled paper in Abroad Understanding.
Ambach and Rice Gallery
206-789-6242
5107 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle (Ballard)
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Art Wolfe

Art Wolfe

Wed–Sat. Through Nov 28.
622-2480
Free
Travel photographer Art Wolfe.

Opening: Reception Thurs Sept 3, 6-8 pm.

Benham Gallery
206-622-2480
1216 First Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Wed-Sat 11-6, Sun-Tues by appointment.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest

Green star The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest

Mon–Sun. Through Jan 18.
324-1126
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest: Glass and metalwork, ceramics, textiles, graphics and book arts, and photography.

Opening: Lecture Thur June 11, 7 pm.

Museum of History and Industry
206-324-1126
2700 24th Ave E
Seattle (University District)
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A Balancing Act

A Balancing Act

Wed–Sun. Through April 11.
654-3100
A Balancing Act: Alexander Calder: A happy modernist is a funny thing. But here he is, and this 40-work survey of his career—taken from the collection of Jon and Mary Shirley— includes mobiles, monumental sculptures, jewelry, works on paper, and miniature maquettes. There are a few standouts in this whirlwind tour.
Seattle Art Museum
206-625-8900
1300 First Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Wed-Sun 10 am-5pm, Thurs-Fri 10 am-9 pm
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A Black-and-White World

A Black-and-White World

Wed–Sun. Through Feb 21.
654-3100
A Black-and-White World: Chinese rubbings pulled from 2nd-century shrines and an 18th-century series of wall engravings of enlightened beings from a temple in Hangzhou.
Seattle Asian Art Museum
206-654-3100
1400 E Prospect St
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Wed-Sun 10-5, Thurs 10-9
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Bridge Talks Back

Green star Bridge Talks Back

Mon–Sun. Through April 30.
684-7311
Free
In this temporary sound installation by Kristen Ramirez, each time the Fremont Bridge opens, a three-minute clip will play over the loudspeakers, blending people's stories with horns, birds, bridge bells, and more.

Opening: Reception Sat Sept 26, 1-4 pm

Fremont Bridge
34th St and Fremont Ave N
Seattle (Fremont)
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Bright Abyss

Bright Abyss

Mon–Sun. Through Jan 31.
425-519-0770
Bright Abyss: Retrospective of the work of ceramist Robert Sperry, who taught at the University of Washington for more than 30 years.

Opening: Symposium Sat Oct 10, 10 am-5 pm.

Bellevue Arts Museum
425-519-0770
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue (Eastside)
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Bringing Munich Home: Selections from the Frye Founding Collection

Bringing Munich Home: Selections from the Frye Founding Collection

Tues–Sun. Through Jan 10.
622-9250
Free
Bringing Munich Home: Selections from the founding collection of the Fryes.
Frye Art Museum
622-9250
704 Terry Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun Noon-5 pm, Thurs 10 am-8 pm
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Clay Throwdown!

Deadline Dec 31, 2009
425-519-0770
The museum's biennial juried exhibition with $5,000 cash prizes. Clay is this year's theme and work can be traditional or on the "fringes of the medium."
Bellevue Arts Museum
425-519-0770
510 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue (Eastside)
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A Concise History of Northwest Art

A Concise History of Northwest Art

Wed–Sun. Through May 23.
253-272-4258
A Concise History of Northwest Art: works from the museum's collection from the 1890s to today.
Tacoma Art Museum
253-272-4258
1701 Pacific Ave
Tacoma (Out of Town)
Wed-Sun 10 am-5 pm
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Contained Within

Green star Contained Within

Wed–Sat. Through Nov 28.
323-2808
Free
Ross Sawyers creates models of empty rooms, then photographs them and prints them large. The results are spaces that feel both false and true, and his latest series is titled Contained Within.
Platform Gallery
206-323-2808
114 Third Ave S
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
Wed-Sat 11-5:30
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Expanding Horizons

Expanding Horizons

Mon–Sun. Through Jan 17.
604-662-4719
American and Canadian landscape works from 1860-1918 in Expanding Horizons.
Vancouver Art Gallery
604-662-4719
750 Hornby St
Vancouver (Out of Town)
Mon, Wed, Fri-Sun 10-5, Tues 10-9, Thurs 10-9, fourth Fri 10 am-11 pm
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Geoff McFetridge: in the Mind

Tues–Sun. Through Aug 8.
Free
Geoff McFetridge: In the Mind: a site-specific indoor installation by the LA artist and graphic designer.
Olympic Sculpture Park
206-654-3100
2901 Western Ave
Seattle (Belltown)
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Ghosts of Commerce Past

Green star Ghosts of Commerce Past

Mon–Sun. Through Dec 5.
325-5204
Free
Kristen Ramirez explores the Ghosts of Commerce Past through crowded compositions that show commercial signs painted in a warm palette.

Opening: Reception Thurs Oct 8, 5-9 pm.

Grey Gallery & Lounge
206-325-5209
1512 11th Ave
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Daily 8 am-2 am
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Incoming!

Incoming!

Wed–Sun. Through Jul 27.
253-284-4750
Incoming!: selected works from this young museum's developing permanent collection.
Museum of Glass
253-284-4732
1801 Dock St
Tacoma (Out of Town)
Wed-Sat 10 am-5 pm. Sun 12-5 pm. Third Thurs 10 am-8 pm.
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Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art

Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art

Wed–Sun. Through Feb 21.
654-3100
Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art: Chinese and Japanese decorative objects in bronze, jade, and citron.
Seattle Asian Art Museum
206-654-3100
1400 E Prospect St
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Wed-Sun 10-5, Thurs 10-9
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Living Legacy

Living Legacy

Tues–Sun. Through Jan 10.
622-9250
Free
Living Legacy contains works from the museum's collection such as Franz von Stuck's Sin.
Frye Art Museum
622-9250
704 Terry Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun Noon-5 pm, Thurs 10 am-8 pm
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Michelangelo Public and Private

Michelangelo Public and Private

Wed–Sun. Through April 11.
654-3100
Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings from the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti: Michelangelo didn't want anyone to see his drawings; he burned as many as he could. Here are 12 that escaped the flames. There's also a hodgepodge of additional material—random works inspired by Michelangelo, a David replica, etc etc—which gives the show the feeling of a roadside attraction.
Seattle Art Museum
206-625-8900
1300 First Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Wed-Sun 10 am-5pm, Thurs-Fri 10 am-9 pm
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Mirrored Murrelets

Wed–Sun. Through Dec 30.
Mirrored Murrelets: Joseph Rossano's outdoor installation of glass sea birds, the kind that nest in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Museum of Glass
253-284-4732
1801 Dock St
Tacoma (Out of Town)
Wed-Sat 10 am-5 pm. Sun 12-5 pm. Third Thurs 10 am-8 pm.
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The Movement of Impressionism

The Movement of Impressionism

Wed–Sun. Through Oct 9.
272-4258
European and American works from the museum’s collection including works by Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, and more.
Tacoma Art Museum
253-272-4258
1701 Pacific Ave
Tacoma (Out of Town)
Wed-Sun 10 am-5 pm
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My Voice Would Reach You

Green star My Voice Would Reach You

Wed–Sat. Through Jan 9.
296-2244
Free
My Voice Would Reach You: An 11-video survey of Meiro Koizumi's career so far. These are performance-based videos, where the "physical and psychological play chicken." (Note to self: Never go into Koizumi's studio. Anything might happen.)

Opening: Reception Mon Oct 14, 5-8 pm.

Seattle University Lee Center for the Arts
296-2244
901 12th Ave
Seattle (Capitol Hill)
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N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999

Green star N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999

Thurs–Sun. Through Jan 31.
543-2280
N30: Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999: Seattle artist/Stranger columnist Christopher DeLaurenti's sound installation of footage and police transmissions from the five-day protest.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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New Works

New Works

Mon–Sun. Through Dec 2.
234-9145
Free
Japanese artist Yoshiko Higashimura shows new works.
Trabant Coffee
602 2nd Ave
Seattle (Pioneer Square)
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The Old, Weird America

Green star The Old, Weird America

Tues–Sun. Through Jan 3.
622-9250
Free
The Old, Weird America, organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Conviction is the core of folklore, not style. Folk art is not just a matter of untrained marks, but of untrained marks imbued with an unwavering but not entirely plausible sense of their own worth against the odds. How, then, should we consider The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art—aside from appreciating its stellar title, taken from Greil Marcus's book on Bob Dylan's basement tapes—featuring recent works by 18 formally trained artists who live in cities and who seethe with doubt rather than belief? There's good reason for this doubt; the show was organized, and almost all of its art made, during the Bush years, when you couldn't help but lose heart in what it meant to be American and long to go back to the beginning, in a search for wrong turns that might be righted. In that spirit, the artists of The Old, Weird America (Kara Walker, Brad Kahlhamer, Jeremy Blake, Allison Smith, Sam Durant, and David McDermott and Peter McGough, among others) are pioneers of the past." (Jen Graves)
Frye Art Museum
622-9250
704 Terry Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun Noon-5 pm, Thurs 10 am-8 pm
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Open Roads and Bedside Tables

Open Roads and Bedside Tables

Tues–Sun. Through Jan 10.
622-9250
Free
Works by American modernists such as Arthur Davies and Rockwell Kent from the museum's collection in Open Roads and Bedside Tables.
Frye Art Museum
622-9250
704 Terry Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun Noon-5 pm, Thurs 10 am-8 pm
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Parallel Lines: Eight Contemporary Seattle Artists

Green star Parallel Lines: Eight Contemporary Seattle Artists

Tues–Sun. Through Nov 29.
623-5124 ext. 133
Parallel Lines: Eight Contemporary Seattle Artists: With Mark Takamichi Miller, Joe Park, Tram Bui, Patti Warashina, and Akio Takamori, among others.
Wing Luke Asian Museum
623-5124
719 King St
Seattle (International District)
Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm
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Parenthesis

Green star Parenthesis

Thurs–Sat. Through Dec 19.
838-7444
Free
Parenthesis: Seattle's great contemporary-collection space's fall show circles around the subject of parents and children. Video, installation, and photography by Neil Goldberg, Ann Hamilton, Guy Ben-Ner, theater designer Jennifer Zeyl, Kerry Tribe, and more. "Western Bridge's two-story space has never been altered this dramatically. It's transformed into a sort of meta-home with new arrangements of rooms and hallways and passageways. The theatrical framework underscores the idea that a family is something that has to be performed in order to survive. A home is a set that tells us what to do as much as it reflects us. Of course the art is good; this is Western Bridge. And there are some works you'd expect: a Sally Mann photograph of her children at half-naked play; a Tina Barney photograph of an upscale family; Neil Goldberg's video of his father breathing onto a mirror, proving his existence. But most things are terrific surprises." (Jen Graves)
Western Bridge
206-838-7444
3412 Fourth Ave S
Seattle (Sodo)
Thurs-Sat 12-6 pm
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Plot Point

Green star Plot Point

Wed–Sun. Through March 31.
654-3100
Five videos by the Belgian artist Nicolas Provost range in length from one minute to 15. He uses the universal language of filmmaking—the way you know what it looks like just before a kiss happens, the way you know the sound of suspense, the way you sense when a zoom is coming—and both shoots his own footage as well as uses footage from famous films. Bataille is a series of mirrored scenes from Kurosawa's Rashomon, which become monstrous in the doubling. Gravity is a tapestry of alternating kisses from movies that eventually start strobing and then disappear. It's seductive then disorienting. "My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience," Provost has written. "That said, it's all about love." The longest of the videos is also the most involving: Plot Point, shot using a hidden camera on New York City streets, culminates in the mass, silent exodus of a seemingly endless line of twinkling and blinking police cars on their way to some unidentified emergency. Nothing actually happens over the 15 minutes, but it's entirely dramatic, because of the tensed-up music (by Moby) and the pans and zooms and cuts. This artifice has become our second nature.
Seattle Art Museum
206-625-8900
1300 First Ave
Seattle (Downtown)
Wed-Sun 10 am-5pm, Thurs-Fri 10 am-9 pm
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Polaroids

Polaroids

Thurs–Sun. Through Jan 31.
543-2280
Polaroids: Robert Mapplethorpe's early, intimate photos of friends and lovers.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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Sawdust Mountain

Green star Sawdust Mountain

Thurs–Sun. Through Jan 31.
543-2280
Former Seattleite Eirik Johnson's Sawdust Mountain is a series of large, striking photographs of areas not far outside this city and shaped by industries that harvest natural products. They're seen with a selection of 19th-century photographs.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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