Visual Arts

A MOHAI Exhibit Explores Seattle's Fashion History

A MOHAI Exhibit Explores Seattle’s Fashion History

It's not all about flannel and Gore-Tex

From left to right: one-piece ski suit (1980s), silk evening gown (1937), wool ski ensemble (about 1948)

MoPop's New Haute Couture Exhibit Is Fit for a Queen

MoPop’s New Haute Couture Exhibit Is Fit for a Queen

The new exhibit features fashion objects, garments and photos

PATTERN PLAY: MoPop’s new exhibit features fashion objects, garments and photos, including fashion photographer Omar Victor Diop’s 2013 print, “Aminata”

Is It Art? Is It a Book? Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Says Yes to Both in Its New Exhibit

Is It Art? Is It a Book? Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Says Yes to Both in Its New Exhibit

Celebrate art made from books at 'Open Sesame! The Magic of Artist's Books Revealed'

IN THE FOLD: A detail from Nebraska artist Karen Kunc’s 2016 accordion-style handmade paper book, LandEscape, part of the exhibit at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Jimi Hendrix Exhibit Reveals Early Sparks of Creativity

Jimi Hendrix Exhibit Reveals Early Sparks of Creativity

His early drawings reveal a bent toward psychedelia (and a love for Husky football)

Young Jimmy Hendrix with his father, James “Al” Hendrix, in Seattle circa 1945

UW's Jacob Lawrence Gallery Rings in 25 Years

UW’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery Rings in 25 Years

The party promises a headlining performance by local soul rapper SassyBlack and the unveiling of volume 3 of 'Monday,' the gallery’s new journal of contemporary arts criticism

This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The University of Washington School of Art’s gallery honors its namesake 25 years to the day after it was christened for the Seattle artist (1917–2000) and UW faculty member whose bold, colorful work draws on the mythology and history of the African-American experience. The party…

Modernist Cusine's New Gallery Gives Us Food for Thought

Modernist Cusine’s New Gallery Gives Us Food for Thought

The new gallery shows off the otherworldly food photography of Nathan Myhrvold

SECRET SAUCE: Nathan Myhrvold at the gallery with his deconstructed cheeseburger image titled “The All-American”

Modernist Cuisine’s Gallery Shows a Different Side of Food 美食广场:现代主义烹饪画廊展现别样美食

Modernist Cuisine’s Gallery Shows a Different Side of Food 美食广场:现代主义烹饪画廊展现别样美食

新“现代主义烹饪”(Modernist Cuisine) 画廊高调展示Nathan Myhrvold空灵超然的美食摄影 The new Modernist Cuisine gallery shows off the otherworldly food photography of Nathan Myhrvold

科学及美食天才Nathan Myhrvold意在通过“现代美食主义”画廊向人们以不同的角度和层面展现食物,如他身后这幅名为“典型美国”的分层后的汉堡包

A Seattle Indie Rocker Goes Solo at Bellevue Art Museum

A Seattle Indie Rocker Goes Solo at Bellevue Art Museum

An indie music veteran constructs his sonic vision in 3-D

FLAMINGO FRETBOARD: Clyde Petersen’s 2018 cardboard, paper and ink piece, The Flamer

The Truth Is Out There at Two Sci-Fi-Themed Events This Month

The Truth Is Out There at Two Sci-Fi-Themed Events This Month

Two sci-fi-related events that probe the void

Star Trek memorabilia in the Wing Luke’s new exhibitv

MOHAI's New Festival of Light Elevates the Laser Show

MOHAI’s New Festival of Light Elevates the Laser Show

Web of light Istanbul-based art and technology collective Ouchhh, whose work is pictured here, will show a new projection at the Borealis Festival of Light

This article appears in print in the October 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s been easy to simplistically view high tech and art as antagonists—especially during Seattle’s current housing affordability crisis—but the Borealis Festival of Light, an international light art competition stopping in Seattle for the first time, will be a splashy public example of the power…

MOHAI's New WWI Exhibit Marks 100 Years Since "The Great War"

MOHAI’s New WWI Exhibit Marks 100 Years Since “The Great War”

The new exhibit, WWI America, opens at the Museum of History and Industry next week

A large collection of posters such as this patriotism-rousing sign that originally read, ”Not just hats off to the flag, but sleeves up for it,” are part of MOHAI’s WWI America exhibit

Hot Ticket: Kat Larson's Haunting New Exhibit

Hot Ticket: Kat Larson’s Haunting New Exhibit

Her video and photography show, "The Lens of Lyra (A Phenomenology of Spirit)," opens this week at Bridge Productions in Georgetown.

A detail from “On the Tracks of South Dakota (the Ghost prays for us),” an image from Larson’s 2016 show, The Ghost of Vega; gallery founder Sharon Arnold says “the aesthetics of the ghost are shifting in this next iteration.”

These Cold War Artifacts Feel Eerily Relevant in 2018

These Cold War Artifacts Feel Eerily Relevant in 2018

A time capsule museum exhibit examines the impacts of citizen-led diplomacy during the Cold War.

If it’s eerie to view an exhibit of historical artifacts about a subject still dominating headlines today—say, what to do if a nuclear bomb strikes Seattle—it’s vaguely reassuring to note that ordinary citizens at the time continued to push for peace however they could. Among the many carefully curated items in the exhibit Glasnost &…

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