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 mon...

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

Culture Fix

What to Do This Weekend June 15–17

Those naked Fremont cyclists are back, along with a SIFF encore.

06/15/2018 By Mac Hubbard

Sales & Events

Wear What When: January 8–14

This week scoop up deals at the Frye Museum Store sale, live your best life with Nordstrom’s new Well Beauty products, and pick up a new hobby at E. Smith Me...

01/08/2018 By Jaime Archer

Visual Art

Documentary, Abstractions, and Weird High School Rituals at the Frye

A trio of new exhibitions arrive this weekend at the Frye Art Museum, featuring photo and video work that reacts to life under communist rule, post-revolution Mexico, and high school life in America.

09/20/2017 By Isabel Boutiette

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Jim Woodring

The artist and cartoonist shares of his latest collection of oversized surreal imagery at Frye Art Museum.

01/19/2017 By Seth Sommerfeld

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

Bang For Your Buck

Cheap Week: July 11–17

A Frames reunites, Wye Oak moves forward by looking back, and Alice Gosti's latest marathon dance performance comes to Waterfront Park.

07/11/2016 By Kyle Kuhn Edited by Seth Sommerfeld

Bang For Your Buck

Cheap Week April 11–17

Check out the Pacific Northwest's best new music videos on the big screen, explore space at Pivot, and honor the memory of Noah Davis at the Frye.

04/11/2016 By Scott Johnson Edited by Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

The Accidental Genius of 'Genius: 21 Century: Seattle' at the Frye

A collection of local Genius Award–winning artists create a beautiful—and truthfully distant—artistic universe.

10/27/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

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

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: March 16–22

'The James Franco Review' debuts, punk on St. Patrick's Day, and Moisture Festival's Vaudevillian flair: the best ways to spend your week without spending much

03/16/2015 By Atoosa Moinzadeh

Go See

1900 Showcases Adornment for the Home and Body

The Frye Art Museum complements its permanent collection with furnishings and decorative objects from the Edwardian era.

03/13/2015 By Jeremy Buben

Remember When

Style Rewind: Local Designers, Seattle Shopping, and the Style that Shaped 2014

Deborah Roberts, Zara, Laura Cassidy, Suk Chai, Far 4, Your Feast Has Ended, Gary Howse, and dozens of other people, places, and things that defined last year

01/06/2015 By Amanda Zurita

Time's Ticking

Six Sure-Thing Last-Minute Gift Shopping Stops

Where to grab the goods before midnight hits your gift list

12/22/2014 By Amanda Zurita

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

Try This On

Natalie Joy Trunk Show at the Frye Art Museum Store

Meet the Portland maker and try on her handmade jewelry.

09/25/2014 By Laura Cassidy

On the Scene

Video: Behind the Scenes for Seattle Met Fall Fashion

We shot our fall fashion coverage inside the Frye Art Museum's back salon-style room on a Monday in late August. Here's an insider's view of what went down.

09/16/2014 By Laura Cassidy Photography by Jessica Carter