Say, for the sake of argument, that the economic party is indeed over. As museums face leaner times, we may well see more exhibitions like the two-room Edward Hopper Women currently at SAM . If so, this well thought-out survey can serve as a good model for what such shows can ai...
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Last week Jen Graves asked me to write a short review of BC sculptor Liz Magor's exhibit The Mouth and other storage facilities at the Henry Art Gallery for the Stranger. Thinking you might enjoy it, I decided to post a link to it here on Artdish. Mouth is on view through December 14th.
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The curatorial decisions between Seattle's Frye Art Musuem and Henry Art Gallery, rooted to their institutional missions and past, reveal distinctive directions. Writer Elizabeth Bryant comments on both museums in her discussion of exhibits at the Frye and the Henry in recent months. Re...
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Romanian historian, Lucian Boia, put it well when he described history as not one but two things: what happened and how we talk about what happened. These days it seems like everyone is talking about how we talk about what happened. Take the current show at the Henry Art Gallery. New York based artist Matthew Buckingham, whose exhibition “Play the Story” can be seen through September 21st, uses film, photography and projected texts to reflect on the relationship between history and narrative..
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I live in the Pacific Northwest for many reasons and one is that I hate glare. In the summer I wear hats and sunglasses. I love the gentle shifting half-light of our overcast skies. I also love night paintings, for their controlled light and for the possibility that things will change...
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The curators of the current SAM exhibit, “Roman Art from the Louvre,” have their work cut out for them. They have less than an hour—my unscientific estimate of how long the average visitor spends at the exhibit—to overturn centuries-old perceptions of Roman art. From ...
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I was delighted yesterday to discover my likeness in a cartoon-like tableau of last month’s R. Crumb press preview at the Frye. Written and illustrated by artist and art critic Molly Norris, it was published in the current issue of Art Access. I had provoked the subject of Ralph Lau...
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Through April 20, 2008
There’s a small pencil drawing in the Kurt Weiser retrospective at BAM, made, according to the label, during a Board meeting of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. The drawing, a doodle-like study of lumpy, humanoid globes on little stands, is a n...
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Reviewers of Anselm Kiefer’s work – and there have been a great many, since he’s been an international phenomena since the early 1980s – generally fall into two main camps. There are the acolytes, who use words like “awe”, “reverence”, and “...
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When Jen Graves wrote in The Stranger that “the new Seattle Art Museum is so much better than the old Seattle Art Museum it's shocking” she echoed my sentiments exactly.
The shock was due in large part to the element of surprise, which characterized the project from beginning...
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