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The Seattle Traveler (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
With its new exhibit, Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum features art reflective of the diverse culture of the former Ottoman Empire, and the art movement that became known as Orientalism. Orientalism art (example at right) is generally thought to include rich detail [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
For more than 30 years, illustrator David Macaulay has peered under the hood of the manmade world and showed us how things work. But it took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to explain the human organism in his new book, "The Way We Work."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
John and Shari Behnke, who created the Neddy Award for Northwest artists administered by Tacoma Art Museum, have announced the creation of a the Brink Award, a new prize aimed at young visual artists in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
SEATTLE, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading fashion specialty
retailer Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: ) opened the doors of its new, relocated
store at Tacoma Mall in Tacoma, Wash. on Friday, Oct. 3. The new 138,000-
square-foot store now offers customers an expanded selection of designer,
luxury and quality fashion brands for men, women and children. The original
Nordstrom at Tacoma Mall opened in 1966...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum has announced the artists selected to participate in the 9th Northwest Biennial, which will be on view from January 31 through May 25, 2009. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum
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Slog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The Henry Art Gallery announced today that it is finally getting in the game of giving awards to deserving regional artists! Seattle Art Museum has the Betty Bowen, Portland Art Museum has the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Tacoma Art Museum hosts the Neddysand now, finally, the Henry Art Gallery will have The Brink Award . It will be awarded every two years to an artist in Washington, Oregon,...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
TACOMA, WA - Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition "Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire" from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. Many Europeans relied on published travelogues for information, but many also traveled to the region. Genre paintings, the prevalent form of Orientalist art in...
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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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Abbey of the Arts (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Sunset Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colours which it passes to a row of ancient trees. You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you, one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth, leaving you, not really belonging to either, not so helplessly dark as that house that is silent, not so unswervingly given to the eternal [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
A trio of celebrated quilters from rural Alabama on Monday resolved lawsuits against an Atlanta art dealer whom they accused of cheating...
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The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
SEATTLE — These days, when Bible verses can be pulled up instantly online and printed Bibles are readily available, an international team of monks, calligraphers and artists is creating a Bible the old-fashioned way.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
TACOMA.- Tacoma Art Museum presents the award-winning sound installation The Forty Part Motet by Janet Cardiff, 2001, A Re-working of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui 1573, by Thomas Tallis through September 7, 2008.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
An international team of calligraphers and artists is working on The Saint John's Bible, portions of which are presently on display at the Tacoma Art Museum. It's the first commissioned handwritten, illustrated Bible in 500 years.
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Slog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It is entirely our luck that the artist Jim Hodges was born in Spokane (in 1957). It means that his work keeps finding its way back here to Washington. Last summer, he was the anchor of the Tacoma Art Museum group show Sparkle Then Fade . That exhibition included his intense, simple Coming Through (seen above), which I wrote about at the time. Jim Hodges's 1999 Coming Through is the beating heart...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Safeco Insurance Foundation (NYSE:SAF) today announced three signature grants, totaling $1.25 million, that support diversity, land conservation and educational
