Posted inVisual Art
SAM Puts Edward Curtis’s Native Portraits Next to Work by Contemporary Native Artists
The resulting show, Double Exposure, is exhilarating.
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Posted inVisual Art
If You Loved Black Panther, You Will Love Lessons from the Institute of Empathy
Go see artist Saya Woolfalk’s work at Seattle Art Museum.
Posted inArt and Performance Summer 2018
Look at This Amazing Object Made with 3,000 Pencils
A close examination of one sculpture on exhibit at the 2018 Seattle Art Fair.
Posted inVisual Art
What Looking at Landscapes Can Do to You
A review of Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet at the Frye.
Posted inVisual Art
Inside the New Nordic Museum Is an Art Show You Shouldn’t Miss
Your Norwegian grandma might not like it, but you will.
Posted inVisual Art
Demian DinéYazhi’ Mines a Toxic History
The queer, indigenous artist’s exhibition at the Henry addresses uranium mines, gender, and ceremony.
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Seeing the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Just Became a Political Act
The festival opens just as the Feds are shutting down erotic services websites.
Posted inVisual Art
The Best—and Worst—Art for Dogs
No one knows more about outdoor sculptures in Seattle than I do.
Posted inArt and Performance Spring 2018
How Mickalene Thomas Incorporated Civil Rights Iconography from the 1960s into Her Painting Resist
A guided tour of a new painting, now on view at Seattle Art Museum.
Posted inArt and Performance Spring 2018
Inscape Used to Be a Prison for Immigrants. Now It’s a Home for Artists.
Seattle’s largest arts enclave and its creepy past.
Posted inVisual Art
“I Want to Live in a World That Loves Women, Not Simply a Society That Doesn’t Rape”
Artist C. Davida Ingram is coming up with new frameworks for making images of black people.
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Artist Zohra Opoku Examines Identity and Belonging Through Fabric
“When I see someone who’s fully veiled, I’m always thinking about what’s underneath.”