SAMart: A lecture about a life
A lover of art, objects, far-flung lands, beautiful words, and adventure, Katherine...
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Thirteen Ideas For How to Spend Your Earth Hour
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SAMblog: An extraordinary collection
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SAMart: More than just a Spanish family
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SAMart: Examining, interpreting, analyzing in public
The multidisciplinary field of art conservation involves the examination, interpretation, analysis and...
Remixed for the Very First Time
As the newest PR intern, it is slightly embarrassing for me to...
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,...
SAMart: A new look at an old painting
The naked human body was an acceptable subject for artists illustrating myths or, occasionally, biblical stories. In this painting Venus and her lover Adonis enjoy a brief period of happiness before he is killed. Especially popular in the region of Venice, Veronese’s large, richly colored...
SAMblog: An extraordinary collection
Starting in 1962, a New York City couple—a librarian and her husband, a postal service employee—built an unlikely collection of art that included some of the most important names in Minimal and Conceptual art. Passionately devoted to the art of their time, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel...
SAMart: An unusual self-portrait
“He comes from the Pacific Northwest: an exceedingly tall thin figure, with large transfixed, rather alarmed eyes . . . He is shy and self aware to a degree, aloof yet (you suspect) ruthless in his self-determination. . . . In short he is very...
Remixed for the Very First Time
As the newest PR intern, it is slightly embarrassing for me to say that I have never been to SAM Remix, but this March 8 will be my very first time. As disconcerting as my lack of experience may be, I have made up for...
SAMart: More than just a Spanish family
Flush with international power and resources from its holdings in Europe, the Americas and Asia, the royal court of Spain was the greatest art collector in the country. Before the seventeenth century, Spanish patrons mostly commissioned art from Italian and Flemish artists; but in the...
SAMart: Elles: SAM is ending, but women artists are still here
Near the center of Australia, out of a station named Utopia, a group of women have painted their way to fame. They are among the leading names in Australian Aboriginal art and many attribute their fluid use of acrylics to years of experience with painting...
SAMart: An inherited history
Honoring her Salish heritage, Musqueam artist Susan Point carved red and yellow cedar to create a sculpture that expresses her cultural ancestry and a devotional attitude towards nature. Red cedar has always been considered the “tree of life” for First Peoples, which is the title...
SAMart: Objects of desire
The collecting impulse of museum directors, curators, and private collectors—an insatiable desire—are referenced and investigated in Gloria Bornstein’s installation Concupiscence. Created in 2002, for a solo exhibition at SAM, the title of the work expresses strong, sexual desire. In this case, Bornstein used for inspiration...
SAMart: A Surreal seat
A contemporary Surrealist, Louise Bourgeois’ career stretched from the 1940s until 2010. Her lifelong fascination with myth, ritual, and totemic figures had its roots in French Surrealism, which reached a high point between the World Wars. In these Eye Benches, furniture takes the form of...
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Thirteen Ideas For How to Spend Your Earth Hour
Earth Hour is this Saturday night, March 23 from 8:30–9:30 pm. What is...
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It’s Elles REMIX Style
Before moving to Seattle to start my fall internship at the Seattle...
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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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