Come Say Hi to the Frye

Plan a visit to Seattle’s only free art museum!

02/17/2021

On View

Anastacia-Reneé’s Frye Show Is a Blistering Look at Gentrification

(Don’t Be Absurd) Alice In Parts opens at the museum later this month.

02/04/2021 By Stefan Milne

Autumn Preview

30 Seattle Events to Catch This Fall

From a monthlong festival at Town Hall to Bon Iver to fresh takes on Jane Austen and Dracula, this season is packed.

08/20/2019 By Stefan Milne

Art Review

Get Yourself to the Frye. It’s Full of Excellent Exhibitions.

Four current shows have the art museum brimming with wit and energy.

03/20/2019 By Stefan Milne

Artist Interview

Cherdonna Shinatra's Wild New Dance Installation Hits the Frye Art Museum

Seattle dance artist Jody Kuehner discusses Ditch. The show mashes up drag and clowning with existentialism in 80 performances over the next three months.

01/22/2019 By Stefan Milne

Healing Arts

While the Frye’s Group Therapy Isn’t a Cure-All, It’s Worth a Session

The museum’s new 12-artist show is, unsurprisingly, a bit of a grab bag.

09/19/2018 By Stefan Milne

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: January 25–28

Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan explores obfuscated truth at the Frye, National Geographic Live shares images taken from the International Space Station, and Belgian brews aplenty at Seattle Center.

01/25/2018 By Darren Davis

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: November 16–19

Alison Marks recasts Native art at the Frye, Ilana Glazer and Phoebe Robinson shout Yaaas Queen Yaaas, and 'The Humans' stirs up family drama at Seattle Rep.

11/16/2017 By Darren Davis

Met Picks

The Top Things to See or Do in Seattle: August 2017

Experimental memoir and Seattle history intersect at the Frye, KeyArena hosts a million-dollar video game competition, and Kendrick Lamar brings down the Tacoma Dome.

07/25/2017 By Darren Davis

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: January 26–29

Frye Art Museum presents Alexander Archipenko's medium-mashing sculptures, Geumhyng Jeong turns a CPR dummy into a one-woman show, and Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival rocks Leavenworth.

01/26/2017 By Seattle Met Staff

Visual Art

Frye Art Museum's 'To: Seattle | Subject: Personal' Is An Artistic Care Package

Director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker's final exhibit at the Frye looks back over seven years to examine context and repetition.

10/06/2016 By Seth Sommerfeld

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Frye Art Museum's Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker

The departing director of the Frye discusses her tenure and the state of art in Seattle.

09/27/2016 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Weekend Starts... Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: April 14–17

Paul McCartney plays the hits at KeyArena, Sharon Jones and Trombone Shorty team up, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns.

04/14/2016 By Seattle Met Staff

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Leo Saul Berk

The local artist draws inspiration from his unique childhood home for Structure and Ornament at Frye Art Museum.

06/02/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

The Frye's Pan Gongkai Exhibit Serves As a Master Class in Chinese Brush Painting

Withered Lotus Cast in Iron showcases the ancient medium's beautiful refined simplicity.

10/15/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

Frye Art Museum Lets You Be the Curator with #SocialMedium

Crowd-curate the Frye's Founding Collection for the fall via Facebook, Instagram, and more social media sites.

08/19/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

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Fall Arts Preview 2013

Meteors hit Russia. Bombers attacked Boston. Tornadoes wrecked Oklahoma. The pope resigned. Was anything going right in 2013? That’s why we’re dedicating our Fall Arts Preview to lucky no. 13. See? Good things can happen.

08/30/2013 By Laura Dannen and Seth Sommerfeld With Brianna Lantz

Art Review

Enter the Woodman: The Frye Recaps the Career of Eco-Artist Buster Simpson

From 1970s ad-hoc street performances to environmentally friendly public art.

06/18/2013 By Sheila Farr