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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Visiting the Rembrandt / Caravaggio Exhibit in Amsterdam May 2006

I've just returned from touring museums in Holland, Belgium, and Paris with a group from the Gage Academy of Fine Art. One of the highlights of the trip was the blockbuster "Rembrandt/Caravaggio" show now at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, another example of the current fash... [More]
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Chris Bruce Lecture at the Henry Art Gallery

Chris Bruce’s time in the Palouse has clearly led him to explore the basic questions about what art is and how it works. In the cheerful, low-key style that charmed Seattleites during his tenure as Curator at the Henry Art Gallery during the 80s and 90s, Bruce – now the Director... [More]
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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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Manzanar Interpretive Center opens in California

On April 24th, the US National Park Service opened an interpretive center at the site of the Manzanar Relocation Camp in the middle of the Owens Valley — a largely unpopulated area of eastern California that lies between the snow-capped Sierra Nevada range and the more arid Inyo Mounta... [More]
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