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Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dan, I called the Seattle Art Museum for you. It seems to be a case of underperforming dogs. They didn't make enough money down there (I bet the people who protested the penis-sculpture fountain have something to say about why nobody wants to eat hot dogs in front of exposed penises), so the dogs had to take it on the road. The cart is called Dante's Inferno Dogs. You can find it "around town." It...
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PORT (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Oscar Tuazon, winner of 2007 Betty Bowen award, "Coming Soon" (2002) The Seattle Art Museum is seeking applicants for its 30th annual Betty Bowen award. The award is a large, unrestricted cash grant to any single artist working in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. The award is in the spirit of Bowen's declaration, "There is still a young genius among us who has been overlooked!" The jury includes a rotating...
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The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Seattle Art Museum has announced members of the search committee who are charged with finding a replacement for outgoing executive director Mimi Gates.
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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) | 07/23/2008
Taste restaurant ditches the sleek and cold look for something warmer and more inviting.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Bruce Lee Action Museum would occupy a city block, soar three stories and cost up to $50 million to build. His family, which unveiled plans Friday, wants to see the structure in Seattle.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Bruce Lee fans are marking the 35th anniversary of his death with an exhibit featuring movie posters, magazine covers and books about the...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"Please Ring Bell: 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition" at Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest provides a compelling variety of photographic art talent, with juror Rod Slemmons, the former curator of prints and photographs at the Seattle Art Museum and current director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, providing interesting choices for the juried...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Yukiko Shirahara is leaving the Seattle Art Museum. And just when I began to appreciate her. Here's my column introducing her from a few months ago, and my review of her culture-mashup show Japan Envisions the West: 16th19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum . Here's my conversation with her about Hokusai's Great Wave . According to a press release from SAM, Shirahara is becoming chief curator...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Fans of Bruce Lee will gather this weekend in Seattle to mark the 35th anniversary of the martial artist's death. A public graveside memorial will take place Sunday.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Seattle Art Museum is throwing itself a gigantic birthday party from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park (SAM's original home).
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Create a Connection (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Welcome back to the surf with Mother Henna! It has been the most art inspiring week here! Can't wait to show you all the great finds, so let's jump in right quick: We got to spend a day at the...
