Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: March 23–29

Enemies become allies at Taproot Theatre, plus all the pancakes and booze an art enthusiast could want: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

03/23/2015 By Atoosa Moinzadeh

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: March 9–15

Hip-hop collective Doomtree takes Neumos, Seattle Jewish Film Festival returns for year 20, and the female spirit of Bell Jar: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

03/09/2015 By Atoosa Moinzadeh

Special Exhibit

Road Trip! Italian Style Exhibit at Portland Art Museum

Swoon over vintage Valentino, Prada, Missoni, and more at the only West Coast stop of this spectacular exhibit.

02/17/2015 By Eden Dawn

Met Picks

The Top Things to See or Do in Seattle: February 2015

Sherman Alexie helps SAL celebrate, Cinderella dances onto the Paramount stage, and spontaneity reigns at the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater.

02/02/2015 By Seth Sommerfeld

Bang For Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: January 12–18

Chop Suey's goodbye concert, a performance by mixed-media percussionists, and August Wilson: the best ways to spend your week without spending much

01/12/2015 By Darren Davis

Habitat

How to Hang Art Like a Pro

Seattle Art Museum and Museum Quality Framing art experts tell us the dos and don’ts of displaying art—and why we’ve been doing it all wrong.

12/01/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

Bang for Your Buck

Cheap Week Seattle: November 10–16

An indie comics festival, the Postal Service on the big screen, and a concert at St. Mark's Cathedral: the best ways to spend your week without spending much.

11/10/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld and Darren Davis

Morning Fizz

Morning Fizz: Who's Winning?

Caffeinated News & Gossip featuring registering, polling, ranking, denouncing, and cheering.

08/27/2014 By Morning Fizz

Guide to the San Juans

Helen Loggie, the San Juans' Most Famous Artist

A house-turned museum on Orcas Island, dedicated to island art.

08/01/2014 By Allison Williams

Profile

Francine Seders, Accidental Art Dealer

Francine Seders showed some of the region’s premier artists at her Greenwood Avenue art gallery. In December 2013, after 47 years, she closed its doors, leaving an indelible mark on Northwest art history.

07/01/2014 By Sheila Farr

Urbanism

Saving Capitol Hill From Itself?

Contemplating a Capitol Hill Arts District.

05/19/2014 By Josh Feit

Art Installation

Modernist Cuisine Co-Author Hosts Art for Food

Maxime Bilet's new interactive Storefronts Seattle project looks at food as communication—all you really need to know is that he's hosting a party there tomorrow night.

01/09/2014 By Chelsea Lin

Arts Funding

Power 2 Give Offers New Avenue for Arts Fundraising

ArtsFund's new Kickstarter-esque platform matches donations for small regional arts projects.

10/01/2013 By Seth Sommerfeld

Article

Fall Arts Preview 2013

Meteors hit Russia. Bombers attacked Boston. Tornadoes wrecked Oklahoma. The pope resigned. Was anything going right in 2013? That’s why we’re dedicating our Fall Arts Preview to lucky no. 13. See? Good things can happen.

08/30/2013 By Laura Dannen and Seth Sommerfeld With Brianna Lantz

Art Review

Enter the Woodman: The Frye Recaps the Career of Eco-Artist Buster Simpson

From 1970s ad-hoc street performances to environmentally friendly public art.

06/18/2013 By Sheila Farr

Art Review

“If You Could Diagram Dreams, They Would Look Like This”

Master draftsman Fred Birchman shows fanciful new drawings and sculpture at Francine Seders Gallery.

06/11/2013 By Sheila Farr

Books & Talks

Amy Tan to Replace Joan Didion at Benaroya Hall

Big-deal author subs in for bid-deal essayist on June 5.

06/03/2013 By Laura Dannen

Art Review

John Grade’s Wood Sculptures Restore Life to Ghosts of Ships

See his latest work, After the Wawona, at Davidson Galleries.

05/15/2013 By Sheila Farr

Art Review

Of Trucks and Tranquility: The Paintings of Paul Havas

Woodside/Braseth Gallery honors the late Northwest landscape artist with a show of recent work.

05/07/2013 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