Seattle Art Museum offers The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 (photo courtesy SAM/Yale University Art Gallery, Trumbull Colection)
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Seattle Art Museum offers The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 (photo courtesy SAM/Yale University Art Gallery, Trumbull Colection)
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George de Forest Brush’s brushwork beautifies The Indian and the Lily at SAM (courtesy SAM/Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas)
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George de Forest Brush’s brushwork beautifies The Indian and the Lily at SAM (courtesy SAM/Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas)
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That cover girl face: Dina returns.
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That cover girl face: Dina returns.
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Betrayal: Hot and fast at the Rep? (courtesy Kathryn Barnard)
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Betrayal: Hot and fast at the Rep? (courtesy Kathryn Barnard)
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Oz comes back from 1902.
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Oz comes back from 1902.
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Michael and Jane dance (and then some) in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? at NWFF.
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Michael and Jane dance (and then some) in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? at NWFF.
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Men in love in Midnight Cowboy at NWFF.
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Men in love in Midnight Cowboy at NWFF.
I took a quick press tour through Seattle Art Museum’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness on Tuesday afternoon and realized I’m a cynical bastard. The terrific thing about the exhibit is that it may actually be more enjoyable if you approach it like a cynical bastard—each dignified portrait, every purple-mountains-majesty landscape becomes fixatin…
