From South Florida's Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, Seattle artist Jane Richlovsky reports about her visit to the event, one steeped in visual excess. Read more about her initial impressions as a participating artist and visitor to Miami's annual showcase where art and commerce intersect.

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.

Writer Thomas Oles gets back in the saddle with his concluding second part of Pendleton Round-Up, and describes the highlights of the Round-Up's leisure life infused with sexual energy, free-flowing whiskey and beer, entertainment at The Happy Canyon Night Show, and local Pendleton character.

The Pendleton Round-Up, the rodeo filled with pageantry and tradition, is held each year in Pendleton, Oregon -- one of the last stops on the Oregon Trail. Writer Thomas Oles contributes his thoughts visiting the Round-Up, cowboy culture, and explores iconic vestiges of the American West.