Art Review

The Frye’s Arbus Bonus Explodes How We See Diane Arbus

The show surveys Arbus’s extensive magazine work, as well as reproductions and appropriations of it.

09/25/2019 By Stefan Milne

Top Five

The Top Things to Do in Seattle This October

Patti Smith has a new memoir, Italian art emphasizes the body, and Nick Kroll takes the stage.

09/24/2019 By Stefan Milne

Culture Fix

What to Do After Work August 26–29

An experiment in LARPing, an Oregon senator’s war against Trump, and an artist's reimagining of the modern world.

08/26/2019 By Lily Hansen and Jonathan Olsen-Koziol

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

Culture Fix

Weekend What to Do May 31–June 2

Billie Eilish plays Marymoor, SIFF honors Regina Hall, and New Kids on the Block bring a bunch of hits.

05/31/2019 By Gennette Cordova

Loving Death

Jane Wong’s Work Brightly Haunts the Frye

The poet’s new museum exhibition invites you to the table to engage physically with history and its ghosts.

05/29/2019 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 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