Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week: January 16–22

Visit Seattle Art Museum during its free weekend, curl up by the fire at Seattle Arts and Lectures' Local Voices, and deal with your inauguration blues with help from Dan Savage and Eli Sanders.

01/16/2017 By Jane Kidder

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

The Weekend Starts... Now.

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

Revel in the community oddity of Fremont Fair, explore NW modernism at SAM, and experience new records by My Goodness and Say Hi live.

06/19/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

Visual Art

The Playful Diversity of Miró at SAM

Seattle Art Museum's Miró: The Experience of Seeing showcases the vibrancy and variety of the Spanish artist's late works.

02/13/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Sports Meets Fine Art

Seattle and Denver Art Museums Make a Super Bowl Wager

SAM and DAM bet loans of symbolic art pieces representing the Seahawks and Broncos.

01/27/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

Three Millennia of Peruvian Art Comes to SAM

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon lays out a detailed timeline of the country's artistic history.

10/16/2013 By Seth Sommerfeld

Art Review

'Japanese Fashion Has Always Been Far Out'

Seattle Asian Art Museum's show of early Japanese art gives context to the couture of SAM’s Future Beauty exhibit.

06/25/2013 By Sheila Farr

Art for All

Video: Seattle Art Museum Unveils 'Mirror'

The new video installation on SAM's facade lights up First and Union.

03/25/2013 By Laura Dannen

Article

Meet Catharina Manchanda, SAM’s Modern Art Curator

The native German brings a good eye and smart ideas to the city’s biggest museum.

03/20/2013 By Sheila Farr

Art Review

The Vogel Collection at Seattle Art Museum: “We Were Obsessed”

A New York postal worker and a librarian spent much of their income on the 20th-century’s most challenging art—50 works now belong to SAM.

03/19/2013 By Sheila Farr

Article

The Rites of Spring: Spring Arts Preview 2013

We celebrate all that’s classical and avant-garde, traditional and trendsetting in Seattle’s spring arts season.

02/20/2013 By Laura Dannen and Seth Sommerfeld

Art Review

Inside SAM's New Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Gainsborough Exhibit

Wealth, power, and prestige are behind much of the art we see in a two-part European Masters exhibition.

02/14/2013 By Sheila Farr