On View

Seattle, Go See Some Art This November

So many new shows. Museum of Museums! National Nordic Museum! Wa Na Wari! SAM! MadArt!

10/30/2020 By Stefan Milne

WE'RE WORN OUT

7 Seattle Brands Slinging Merch with Attitude

These local businesses aren't afraid to show a little sass.

01/24/2020 By Nicole Martinson

Arts Notice

SAM’s Flesh and Blood Is Radiantly Weird

The 39 paintings from Italy’s Capodimonte Museum are fine reminders of the variety in classical art.

10/17/2019 By Stefan Milne

Arts Notice

At SAM’s Victorian Radicals Emphasis Lands Heavily on the Victorian

As history, the museum’s new exhibit is fascinating—so much so that the text can overwhelm the art.

06/19/2019 By Stefan Milne

Changing Art Guard

Seattle Art Museum Announces Its Next Director

Amada Cruz will leave the Phoenix Art Museum and replace Kimerly Rorschach at SAM.

06/10/2019 By Stefan Milne

Culture Fix

Weekend What to Do April 5–7

Fraternal sounds hit Chop Suey, a major novelist completes her trilogy, and drag queens mock an epically bad movie.

04/05/2019 By Stefan Milne

Arts Notice

Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer Hits SAM Tonight

This survey of Gibson’s work, which includes 15 beaded punching bags, is stunning.

02/28/2019 By Stefan Milne

Party Art

Celebrate 10 Years of SAM Remix

The intermittent arts bash celebrates an anniversary at Olympic Sculpture Park.

08/21/2018 By Stefan Milne

Figures & Forms

Mickalene Thomas’s and Martha Friedman’s Exhibits at Henry Art Gallery Explore Bodies

Two of the gallery’s current shows take very different looks at human forms.

08/08/2018 By Stefan Milne

Culture Fix

Things to Do After Work: December 4–8

Seattle Art Museum curates color to remedy the gray season, Seattle-based author Anca Szilágyi debuts her first novel, and experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky presents 'Seasonal Songs.'

12/04/2017 By Isabel Boutiette

Visual Art

Seattle Art Museum Awarded $3.5 Million for Asian Paintings Conservation Center

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenge grant goes towards establishing the new center inside the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

10/27/2017 By Jaime Archer

The Weekend Starts...Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: October 19–22

Seattle Art Museum's new Andrew Wyeth exhibit opens, 'Evil Dead' gets the musical treatment, and Depeche Mode graces KeyArena.

10/19/2017 By Darren Davis

Visual Art

Audacious Accessibility Reigns in 'Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic'

Seattle Art Museum's survey of the Brooklyn-based artist's career to date showcases an in-your-face and engaging take on blackness in modern society.

03/22/2016 By Seth Sommerfeld

Bang For Your Buck

Cheap Week February 8–14

Listen to a master author read his latest novel, check out some budding Seattle bands, and enjoy a rock concert on the day of love.

02/08/2016 By Scott Johnson Edited by Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

Aesthetic Origins: 'Intimate Impressionism' at Seattle Art Museum

While not the most captivating collection, the National Gallery of Art's touring exhibit offers a good overview of essential impressionism.

11/12/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Seattle Art Museum's Barbara Brotherton

The native art curator discusses the musuem's new exhibit Indigenous Beauty.

02/12/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Weekend Starts... Now

The Top Things to Do This Weekend: January 8–11

Head to the mountains for Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival or stick around and catch the final days of Pop Departures at SAM.

01/08/2015 By Seattle Met Staff

Visual Art

The Power of Pop Art at Seattle Art Museum's Pop Departures

From Warhol to the modern masters of the medium, the new exhibit looks at pop art's timeline and the consumerism that's at its core.

10/09/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

SAM's City Dwellers Explores the Cultural Pressures of Modern India

A collection of Indian artists confronts the conflicts brought on by societal modernization and years of colonialism

09/11/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

Japanese Art Deco Takes Over the Asian Art Museum

Deco Japan offers a fascinatingly detailed look at the country's Western-influenced art boom in the early 20th century.

06/26/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld