Nobuho Nagasawa’s Water Weaving Light Cycle, the artwork suspended above the Cherry Street stairs in City Hall, connects visitors to the ever-changing environment outside. In this dynamic,visual and auditory experience, blue light pulses along a fiber-optic cable sculpture, imitating flowing water, with movement ebbing and flowing according to outdoor weather… [ Keep reading ]
Dawoud Bey: The Art of Taking Pictures of People Usually Pictured from the Outside “The art career of Dawoud Bey—one of the artists to be included in next year’s Whitney Biennial in New York*—begins with someone else’s exhibition: Harlem on My Mind, an exhibition that drew picketers back in 1969… [ Keep reading ]
At the Central Library, you don’t even need to open a book to find all sorts of written text. Ann Hamilton’s LEW Wood Floor (2004) is composed of sentences in 11 different languages, welcoming all visitors to the library. As a continuous tactile field, the wood floor consists of 556… [ Keep reading ]
The Cost of Being an Artist “Artist and musician David Byrne recently wrote that the cultural life of New York City had been “usurped by the top 1 percent,” implying that our society’s emphasis on the bottom line has compromised our humanist sensibilities. With soaring housing and health care costs,… [ Keep reading ]
In a Rediscovered Trove of Art, a Triumph Over the Nazis’ Will “Otto Dix, in a half-light, glowers from a self-portrait, jaw set, puffing on a cigar, looking infuriated. “What took so long?” he seems to ask, youthful as ever. They keep coming back, these works of art lost to the… [ Keep reading ]
It’s no secret that Seattle, the “Emerald City,” is known for being green – from the environmentalism to the sheer color of the landscape. What one might not know is that grass, plants, and everything green can be found even in the most unlikely of places, including incorporated on the… [ Keep reading ]
Artists – want more info about affordable healthcare? A few weeks ago, on October 14th, the Office of Arts & Culture hosted a session to answer any questions and explain changes to the way healthcare will work. Because we know not everyone could come, and because registration filled up so… [ Keep reading ]
Imagine walking through a forest when you notice glowing snakes up in the trees, gnarled roots at your feet, and the syncopated beats of rain as water hits the ground around you – I’d say that’s a great start to a very spooky Halloween story! If you visit the Cedar… [ Keep reading ]
A Million Bucks to Art on the Waterfront “Thanks to Seattle’s public art law, part of the construction budget to rebuild the massive Elliott Bay Seawall will pay for a million-dollar art commission. This is the biggest-budget public art commission ever in Seattle, by several hundred thousand dollars, according to… [ Keep reading ]
On Wednesday, December 4, Coll Thrush will give a talk at the Olympic Sculpture park at 7 pm. The talk will be on representations of indigenous life in Seattle’s civic imagery, art and monuments, and look at issues raised by the use of First Nations icons in the Vancouver Olympics… [ Keep reading ]
