Night and Light and the Half-Light

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... [More]
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Posted on June 18, 2008 18:16 by Victoria Josslin
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Roman Art from the Louvre at Seattle Art Museum

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 ... [More]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 06:35 by Michelle Standley
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Molly, Crumb (and Me) at the Frye

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... [More]
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Posted on March 6, 2008 15:05 by Jim Demetre
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Kurt Weiser at the Bellevue Arts Museum

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... [More]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 07:05 by Gary Faigin
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Falling Stars by Anselm Kiefer at the Grand Palais

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 “... [More]
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Posted on July 25, 2007 11:40 by Gary Faigin
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Downtown Seattle Art Museum SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle

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... [More]
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Posted on May 18, 2007 09:26 by Gary Faigin
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Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection

Frye Art Museum, Through June 3  In the life history of an art exhibit, which comes first, the curator or the collector? Time was that curators were chiefly responsible for canonizing new artists and art movements, but in recent times the balance has shifted decisively in favor o... [More]
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Posted on March 16, 2007 08:30 by Gary Faigin
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Olympic Sculpture Park

It’s become almost routine for new art museums to be criticized for being so powerful architecturally that they threaten to overwhelm their art. The same might be said of the Olympic Sculpture Park, except that here the aesthetic competition isn’t so much the man-made elements (a... [More]
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Posted on January 20, 2007 11:47 by Gary Faigin
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Junctions: Selected Drawings by Contemporary Artists and Modern Masters at James Harris Gallery

By a bizarre coincidence, the exhibition of Paul Allen’s personal collection at EMP is not the only art show in town which places 19th Century French masters side-by-side with contemporary art. Junctions at James Harris this month, does the same thing with drawings instead of paintings... [More]
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Posted on August 17, 2006 14:04 by Gary Faigin
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Postcard from Korea #1.

I promise I didn't come to Korea just to see Western art. Really. There are great numbers of contemporary art galleries in Seoul – it is, after all, a city of 20 million. But if I wanted to see Western art today, right now, besides Picasso I could see exhibitions of work by Rouaul... [More]
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Posted on June 27, 2006 00:46 by Victoria Josslin
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