We don’t have any experience with the Seattle Art Fair prior, but the 2023 edition was said to be a comeback show. If so, that speed of recovery was on full display this year as 25 additional galleries joined the fair at the Lumen Event Center. A steady crowd Friday seemed to have been dwarfed … Continue reading Seattle Art Fair 2024: A Vibrant Comeback Show with New Additions
In the recently reimagined American Galleries at the Seattle Art Museum, we're presented with a monumental early 20th-century work by Thomas Eakins, hung beside a contemporary painting by Kehinde Wiley. William Smith Forbes is a long way from home and seems a bit out of place. Meanwhile, Anthony of Padua seems at ease. Forbes was … Continue reading Eakins and Wiley at the Seattle Art Museum
Portland-based artists Sean McGonigal and Joanne Radmilovich Kollman made the New York Times recently. As former occupants in the Troy Laundry Building, they once had working space in what has now become a Portland branch of the exclusive Soho House. According to the article, Soho House positions itself as a creative space and features work … Continue reading Art Log, March 17, 2024: Fancy clubs, vinyl records, new museums and absurd ones.
The picturesqueness of the Pacific Northwest shorelines is not just for summer. During winter, when dark rolling clouds loom low, it sends endless energy to the sea. Storm-watching is a well-kept secret among locals. The sense of being wet, cold, isolated, and overwhelmed accentuates the raw power from the giant waves crashing against rocky cliffs. … Continue reading Fragments of the Sea II by David Haughton
Imagine for a moment a warehouse building in Seattle. Antiques are gathered there from Japan throughout the year. Then for two weeks of the year, the warehouse is open to the public. Would you travel to Seattle for that? We did. We made our way to Kyoto Art and Antiques for the open warehouse from … Continue reading A Warehouse Sale Worth Waiting For
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