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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum presents Empire, on view through January 4, 2009. Empire, curated by Robin Held, Frye chief curator and director of exhibitions, investigates the mechanisms of empire building and destruction, modernity and its discontents. Empire includes projected artworks, both metaphorical and documentary, many of which will be exhibited for the first time
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Coast Salish Indian art at Seattle Art Museum, documents from the French empire at the Frye Museum and a small but juicy Edward Hopper show are among the highlights of the fall art season in Seattle.
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Slog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
On Wednesday night I posted a quick note about the Frye Art Museum's elimination of the education programs of Yoko Ott . Now I have the full story. Facing a potential deficit of $266,000 on a $4 million annual operating budget, the Frye announced to Ott and to the rest of the museum staff on Wednesday that Ott's position, manager of youth and community outreach, would have to be cut (and Ott's programs...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
I couldn't get any details tonight, but I do know that Yoko Ott, the terrific curator of education at the Frye, has been let go and her programs have been axed. These were some great programs; I followed along on a class one Saturday in July. I'll describe later. The "changes" were announced to the staff today, said Frye spokeswoman Rebecca Garrity-Putnam, who added: I think that this was a very difficult...
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Timothy Lowly's large-scale portrait Temma on Earth shows his young daughter, physically and mentally disabled since birth, lying helpless in the dirt. Most haunting is the expression on her face: mouth gaping open and blank eyes staring at somethingor is it nothing?that we c...
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I have an ongoing debate with my partner about whether the American future will be Beirut-style terrible or just sort of Detroit-style terrible. I’m the pessimist. I was reminded of this by Trisha Ready’s essay in the July 3 Stranger about how her identity started dissolving as her buying power dropped off, and how frightening [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
New York artist Oliver Herring brings his improvisational event known as "Task" to the Seattle Central Library on Saturday, 10 a.m. -5:30 p.m., sponsored by the Frye Art Museum, the library, On the Boards and the Tacoma Art Museum.
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Oliver Herring would like your attention. The German-born, Oxford-educated, New Yorkbased artist would like you to perform a few small favors during his daylong participatory performance piece Task . If you show up, he'll assign you some seemingly mundane errand within the Rem Koolh...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Wow. Talk about a transformation! Seeing the Wing Luke Asian Museum burst out of the dark former garage that once encased it and open up...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
San Antonio-based artist Dario Robleto has two shows up currently at the Frye Art Museum , but that's not why In/Visible decided to do two podcasts with him rather than only one. It's because he's too interesting to cover everything in one sitting. In part one , recorded and posted in late April, Robleto talked about his personal history in and around hospice and honky tonks in Texas, and about his...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
At the Frye, Dario Robelto's attempt to humanize the museum's matriarch falters; at Seattle Asian Art Museum, Su-Mei Tse succeeds in luring the casual viewer.
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Slog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
An installation view of Dario Robleto's An Instinct Toward Life , in his show Heaven Is Being a Memory to Others at the Frye. (Photos by Adam L. Weintraub) 2008 is not even half over, and I'm putting money on Dario Robleto's new exhibition at the Frye Art Museum as the Seattle exhibition of the year . Basically, Robleto, a San Antonio-based artist, went in search of a dead Seattle woman , Emma Frye...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Dance Party Hot Chip, Free Blood at Showbox at the Market Yes, it's sold out, but The Stranger suggests you do what it takes to get into this show—hit up a scalper, walk in the front door backward , pretend you're the dude from Free Blood, whatever. Hot Chip's latest, Made in the Dark , isn't their strongest, but it's spiked with some of the best songs in their deep party repertoire. Their live shows...
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What's the Point? (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
This hangs in the Frye Art Museum of Seattle… LAWRENCE JENSEN (American, b.1924-d.2000) Ten, about 1961 watercolor on paper 1961.7 Museum Purchase, 1961
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Drew FriedmanFantagraphics is hosting Drew Friedman at their shop in Seattle tomorrow night: The fun begins on Thursday at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery with Drew Friedman’s stunning show “The Fun Never Stops!” Come meet this extraordinary artist and view his stunning comics and illustrations. The exhibit includes 16 spectacular Friedman originals and a very limited signed [...]
