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Favorite 2011 Moments at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park
Many people mentioned the Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris exhibition, which concluded in January 2011. “ Picasso. Hands down! Michelle Carles December 30, 2011 2:19:55 PM EST “ Picasso, without question! Dave McConnell December 30, 2011 1:35:01 AM EST “ Picasso was...
SAMart: Five very beautiful women
Hattie Branch, Blakemore Intern, brings us a look at the work of Katsushika Hokusai. Long before Hokusai published his famous The Great Wave of Kanagawa, he was an emerging artist, independent of any established school and struggling to get by. A popular account tells that...
Do Ho Suh’s “Gate” Leads SAM Visitors Through 5,000 Years of Asian Art
Invited to provide a contemporary response to the historical material, internationally recognized artist Do Ho Suh created a new multimedia installation for the exhibition Luminous: The Art of Asia, on view at SAM Downtown until January 8, 2012. Born in Korea and presently living in...
Listen Up: Record Store in the Business of Ideas
I recently volunteered at SAM’s Teen Night Out, and one of my favorite moments was watching the youth interact with the record players in Theaster Gates: The Listening Room. This exhibition features a collection of thousands of records from a defunct record store in Chicago...
SAMart: New acquisition, new installation
One of the most penetrating portraitists of the seventeenth century, Philippe de Champaigne brought his observations of real people into religious paintings, giving them a down-to-earth quality. Here, the central focus is the aged face of Elizabeth, as she affectionately greets her younger cousin, the...
Record Store: A Collaboration Between SAM and Olson Kundig Architects Opens Tonight
By Guest Blogger: Alan Maskin, Partner | Olson Kundig Architects We created [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects as an experimental work place for our firm’s community collaborations, pro-bono design work, philanthropic and volunteer work, and for design research and the development of design ideas. The idea to have our [storefront] space become the Record Store...
SAMart: Wide-eyed, and perplexing
The art on view in a new Oceanic art gallery (opening by the end of December) was once surrounded by the scent of aromatic flowers, the rustling of palm leaves, and the mesmerizing sound of shell trumpets. Museums tend to collect what fits in a...
Not Your Ordinary Screen Savers
Apropos the fabulous Golden “Bamboo and Poppies” Kanō school screens, and the other famous and beloved screens currently displayed in Luminous: The Art of Asia, the Seattle Art Museum’s collection of approximately 70 Asian screens, has been recently rehoused in the best state-of-the-art storage cabinets available...
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Dirty, Sacred Rivers, a Talk by Cheryl Colopy at SAAM on November 8
Cheryl Colopy discusses her book, Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis,...
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