1. ADJUST TO ISLAND TIME Starting February 9, SAM Downtown has extended open hours to make it easy to see Gauguin & Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise. Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm Thursday & Friday 10 am–9 pm First Thursdays (March 1 & April 5) 10 am-midnight...
The final listening party at SAM’s Record Store will be held January 31 from 6:30-9 pm. Donna Moodie from Marjorie restaurant, Alan Maskin from Olson Kundig Architects and a host of other incredible people will be spinning choice cuts from their favorite albums in the Record...
A fascinating series of lectures will be offered at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on two topics that have increasingly entered the purview of art historians across the world: food and ritual in relation to art. Japanese culture, both ancient and modern, is rich in elements of...
The new incarnation of Here and Now, the museum’s new acquisition space, focuses on recently acquired contemporary ceramics. The works now on view reveal their desire of bridging the past and present. These hybridized vessels express their synthesizing of visual histories from Eastern and Western...
Everybody at SAM is in a flurry to get the Gauguin & Polynesia exhibition ready to open to the public on February 9. Of course you know that we must hang paintings on walls, but what else is there to do? The answer is, lots! The...
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 6:30 – 9 pm Selector: Eric Frederickson, Western Bridge/Seattle Arts Commission Eric Fredericksen is the director of Western Bridge, Seattle and Chair of the Public Arts Committee for the Seattle Arts Commission. He has curated exhibitions at the Or Gallery, the Bodgers’...
It’s hard to believe, but the Olympic Sculpture Park is already 5 years old! By the numbers, that’s: 5 seasons that salmon have been able to rest in a protected area just off our beach after hatching 60 months of growth to the native plants,...
Today’s SAMart was going to focus on Robert Morris’ Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, the topic of curator Catharina Manchanda’s lecture on Wednesday. However, given the forecast for a storm, SAM’s 3 sites will be closed Wednesday, January 18. This lecture will...
TUES | January 17 6:30 PM – Cancelled due to weather concerns! Selectors: Jason Plourde and the Three Dollar Bill Cinema Family Join Jason Plourde, the Programming Director for Seattle’s own Three Dollar Bill Cinema, for an evening of that you will never forget. Three...
Earth Hour is this Saturday night, March 23 from 8:30–9:30 pm. What is...
Before moving to Seattle to start my fall internship at the Seattle...
Cheryl Colopy discusses her book, Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’s Water Crisis,...