'Hammering Man' has lost his arm
The Big Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you drive downtown today, be sure to send "Hammering Man" your best wishes. The 48-foot-tall, 22,000-pound Seattle icon is losing an arm.
Seattle Art Museum
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Viaduct Park?
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Maybe this is really dumb question, but... would it be possible to save a piece of the Viaduct as a park/outdoor concert and performance venue? Kind of like the High Line in NYC? It could start at Seneca—walk out of the Seattle Art Museum and take a stroll to Pioneer Square? Or hear a concert at sunset? I know, I know: earthquake, crumble, mass death. Plus giant vats of political poison from...
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Polish, Italian festivals lead weekend's films
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's a week full of film festivals, including the Seattle Polish Film Festival in America at Seattle Art Museum's Plestcheeff Auditorium, New Italian Cinema Festival at SIFF and Burning Fuse Film Festival at Grand Illusion.
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Currently Hanging: Jacob Lawrence
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Confrontation at the Bridge There's a room full of bodies on the third floor of Seattle Art Museum. It's a party in honor of Jacob Lawrence. The show is called Freeing the Figure , and it looks at three of his paintings in the context of other figurative work in the museum's permanent collection—Philip Guston's Lawyers and Clients disembodied feet and legs are here; Max Beckmann's rope dancers;...
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Artists, Meet SAM Director
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Last night was a first for Derrick Cartwright. He's run three other museums , and not once has anyone suggested he get together with the artists of the city. "I thought, well, what are art museums for? Oh, right, art . Artists," said Roy McMakin, the artist who hosted a party for artists to personally welcome Cartwright to his post at Seattle Art Museum, and to ask him questions. Dozens...
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Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno' finds fun in the environment
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Actress-turned-director Isabella Rossellini ("Blue Velvet," "The Saddest Music in the World") brings her latest project to town. Both a film and...
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Mobiles: Not Just For Kids Alexander Calder Exhibit
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Shapes and colors and testing of gravity: it brought back memories of the scribbled drawings we used to make, shapes that had no meaning or sense. A recent trip to the Seattle Art Museum’s exh
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There’s So Much to Do Tonight, it Makes Me PUKE.
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Who has time to do all these fabulous things? WHO ? TASTERS CHOICE w/Kristina Childs & DJ Verse! The Capitol Club tonight will pulse and throb to the sex-sex-SEXY beats of resident DJ Verse and guest star DJ Kristina Childs. 414 E. Pine. No cover! FIRST FRIDAY in The Blue Room at Trinity w/Special Guest DJ Eva! Freshly back from a whirlwind European tour, DJ Eva spins some very special new so-called...
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iPhone Wednesday #17: Museum Steps
Seattle Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo & Text Copyright 2009 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing. These steps are on the south side of the Seattle Art Museum and help pedestrians start an ascent up the steep street. The design elements running along this elevation catch a glint of late afternoon sunlight. Hammering Man is visible at the corner, and pedestrians cast long shadows as...
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Michelangelo drawings on display in Seattle
adn.com: Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
While in Washington state on family business last week, I swung into the Seattle Art Museum to see something exceedingly rare: real drawings by Michelangelo. What I mean by rare is that I've never seen one of these things in person; in fact the 12 chalk sketches loaned from Italy for the museum's "Michelangelo Public and Private" temporarily double the number of the artist's drawings in the...
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Earshot Jazz Festival: Week three
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Musicians from around the globe travel to Seattle to play at Earshot Jazz Festival, showing just how international this form of music has become. On the lineup Oct. 30-Nov. 5: Chilean singer Claudia Acuña; Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso; and Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto, plus others.
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From Sarah Palin's Secret Diary: Among the...
The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
From Sarah Palin's Secret Diary: Among the many ersatz revelations . . . are that Palin found her teenage daughter Bristol and boyfriend Levi Johnston alone in a bedroom -- buck naked and surrounded by lit candles -- but feared the teens were practicing Satanism, not premarital sex.
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Wednesday - Celebrate Hadley Caliman
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Wednesday, October 28 Celebrate Hadley Caliman Seattle Art Museum, downtown 7:30pm $18 general, $10 students An all-star quintet featuring renowned saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the legendary Curtis Fuller (trombone), Larry Vukovich (piano), Jeff Chambers (bass), and Eddie Marshall (drums) concludes its Pacific Northwest tour in a special tribute concert to the Seattle-based tenor master...
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Visual Arts: Star Systems
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
When Seattle Art Museum benefactors Jon and Mary Shirley recently walked into their house after a long trip, they were struck by the absence of Calders, which are all currently installed at SAM. "It felt 10 degrees colder," Jon told me. The Shirleys' temporary loss is your ...
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I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends?
Plain Jayne (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[STATS: sweater: H&M, t-shirt: Urban Outfitters jeans: UO boots: City Sports beret: UO necklace: Seattle Art Museum] Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with our generation. We would rather stare at our cellphones than look someone in the eye. We prefer to listen to the words on our ipods instead of those of others. We do not seem to respect anyone enough to ask them to go out on a real date, instead...