Roland Terry: 1917 - 2006

On June 10th, the Seattle Times ran a story in their Real Estate section about the Mount Vernon home of legendary Northwest architect Roland Terry. Terry, the paper said, would be moving to an assisted care facility and his longtime friend, Abdel Ageep, would be putting the property up for ... [More]
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Posted on June 21, 2006 09:55 by Jim Demetre
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Swallow Harder – Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection

When the Frye reopened under new management 8 years ago, it was with an exhibition of the paintings of the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum: dramatic, oddball fantasies of a post-nuclear world where retro-primitive tribes battled for supremacy, a stylistic melding of Rembrandt and Bladerunner. Su... [More]
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Posted on March 18, 2006 09:58 by Gary Faigin
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Isamu Noguchi at Seattle Art Museum

Just days away from its closing, I made one last visit to the Seattle Art Museum to see Isamu Noguchi -- Sculptural Design. The show, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil an Rhein, seems as much a showcase for exhibition designer Robert Wilson as it does Noguchi himself. As its t... [More]
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Posted on September 4, 2005 02:28 by Jim Demetre
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Oliver Herring at the Frye

William Carlos Williams, one of the great American poets of the last century, left behind one of the most important artistic maxims of all time, “No ideas but in things.” During an era rife with idea-based art, we often find ourselves contemplating objects which have little p... [More]
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Posted on July 31, 2005 12:17 by Jim Demetre
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Recantations: Two Artdish Epilogues

The O.C. Fox Television Air America Radio Seattle’s Progressive Talk AM 1090 I have taken it upon myself to go back and discuss some recent writings on subjects that over the course of time have gone on to surprise or disappoint me. In one instance, my hopes for a novel an... [More]
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Posted on July 12, 2005 11:28 by Jim Demetre
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SIFF ROUND-UP: All the world’s a stage

Seattle International Film Festival May 19 - June 12 Globalization and the consequences of economic isolationism are explored in a few films from this past weekend at SIFF. Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke dramatizes the introduction of globalization in Chinese society in two films paired at... [More]
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SIFF ROUND-UP: Opening Weekend

The tenor of this year’s festival has been, perhaps, the most ambitious in recent years as the first weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival unspooled. Miranda July’s debut Me You and Everyone We Know floored many who attended SIFF’s Opening Night Gala at the Pa... [More]
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Feast Your Ears: Dead Rock Stars and Music Films at SIFF

Dead rock stars – no matter how young or old, how sad or tragic the death – live on forever in the popular imagination and culture. Their names, like an honor roll from pop’s hall of fame, capture a singular image; an icon of youthful passion, independence and rebellion. J... [More]
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American Choreographers

If anyone attending the current program at the Pacific Northwest Ballet was looking to witness a historical retrospective of the nation’s great choreographers or a showcase of its most promising young talent, it is possible they might have walked away disappointed. "American Chor... [More]
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Posted on April 18, 2005 22:24 by Jim Demetre
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The Gates: Installation in Central Park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

If there was ever a body of work designed to be almost critic-proof, it is the extravagant and spectacular environmental interventions of Christo and his collaborator, Jeanne-Claude. It is almost impossible to separate the artworks themselves — the wrapped buildings and coastlines, th... [More]
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Posted on March 16, 2005 11:14 by Gary Faigin
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