Seattle critic Matthew Kangas offers comment on Tacoma Art Museum's current ongoing exhibition "A Concise History of Northwest Art" and explores the exhibition in context of the museum's ambition to be a regional institution for Northwest Art. The exhibition, organized by Curators Rock Hushka and Ma...
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Different Citizens. Roger Shimomura, 2009.Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 45". Courtesy of the artist.
In the exhibition “Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura” at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Roger Shimomura’s painting Different Citizen...
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You’re looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life. Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago...
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A consideration of the UW MFA program: its recent successes, the ongoing changes to the program, and the launching of the most recent grads.
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There are moments, looking at certain paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, when the enormous gap of time and space that separates their world from ours seems to melt away like a clearing fog. We sense in the light, the mood, the way of observing, and even the choice of subject matter somethi...
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