Gift Guide

Tiny Artworks Make Great Holiday Gifts

You support a local artist, the art fits in a stocking. Win win.

12/05/2012 By Laura Dannen

Local Talent

Meet Kyle Loven, A New Kind of Puppet Master

The Seattle artist is Jim Henson Foundation approved, but much more than a puppeteer.

12/04/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

Michael Schall's Eruptions at Platform Gallery

Billowing mushroom clouds explode out of cages in the artist's latest graphite drawings.

11/13/2012 By Sheila Farr

Trust Fund Not Required

10 Ways to Shop for Art Like a Pro

Courtesy of Affordable Art Fair organizers Will Ramsay and Jennifer Jacobs.

11/08/2012 By Laura Dannen

New Event

Affordable Art Fair Opens Tonight at Seattle Center

Plus: How to get into tonight's preview party—for free.

11/08/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell

Get to know the Seattle artist, and all his bawdy sweetness, in this Henry Art Gallery retrospective.

11/07/2012 By Sheila Farr

Visual Art

Art After-Hours: Where to Go This First Thursday (November)

Museums are free, galleries stay open late. So...many...choices.

11/01/2012 By Sheila Farr

Local Talent

A Fiendish Conversation with Susan Robb

For her latest interactive installation, the Seattle artist turns to Skype to sculpt.

10/26/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

Visual Art

The Unfelt Tremors of Mw [Moment Magnitude]

Frye Art Museum's latest exhibit only registers as a rumble.

10/23/2012 By Seth Sommerfeld

Critic's Notebook

What Really Happens When 'Women Take Over'

There's a bit of "Genital Panic" in the all-female art exhibit Elles at Seattle Art Museum.

10/16/2012 By Sheila Farr

Post

Affordable Art Fair Arrives in Seattle

Fifty galleries will sell their wares at Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, with prices ranging from $100 to $10,000. Trust funds not required.

10/12/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

SAM's New Contemporary Art Curator Is Doing Some Impressive Work

Catharina Manchanda shows wit and a fine-tuned aesthetic in her first exhibits at the Seattle Art Museum.

10/10/2012 By Sheila Farr

Fall Arts Preview

Elles at SAM: "This Isn't a Feminist Exhibition"

Seattle Art Museum shows a century's worth of modern and contemporary art by women in its ambitious new exhibit, on loan from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

10/08/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

Would You Buy Fine Art from Costco?

The wholesaler is back in the affordable art business with Warhol screen prints and Matisse lithographs.

10/05/2012 By Laura Dannen

Visual Art

Art After-Hours: Where to Go This First Thursday

Museums are free, galleries stay open late. So...many...choices.

10/02/2012 By Sheila Farr

Visual Art

Tiny Works of Art: Miniature Kites at Paper Hammer

They're handpainted and not much bigger than a silver dollar. Better yet? They actually fly.

09/25/2012 By Sheila Farr

Visual Art Memorial

Closing Time for Western Bridge

The SoDo warehouse turned art space will turn off the lights on October 20.

09/19/2012 By Sheila Farr

Visual Art

Epic Indian Art: Paintings of the Ramayana at Seattle Asian Art Museum

SAAM's latest exhibits deliver something old (illustrations of the 2,000-year-old epic Ramayana) and something new (modern art by the women of Sita).

09/12/2012 By Sheila Farr

Visual Art

The Frye's New Singing, Dancing, Art-Making Exhibit

Opening October 13, MW [Moment Magnitude] is a "veritable tsunami" of visual art, performance, lectures, and more.

09/11/2012 By Laura Dannen

Stylish Art

Go See: Braided Nature at Magnuson Park

Vintage shop owner Adria Garcia and installation artist Sarah Kavage gave a wild field an updated 'do.

09/07/2012 By Laura Cassidy