Falling Stars by Anselm Kiefer at the Grand Palais

Reviewers of Anselm Kiefer’s work – and there have been a great many, since he’s been an international phenomena since the early 1980s – generally fall into two main camps. There are the acolytes, who use words like “awe”, “reverence”, and “... [More]
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Posted on July 25, 2007 11:40 by Gary Faigin
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Postcard from Korea #1.

I promise I didn't come to Korea just to see Western art. Really. There are great numbers of contemporary art galleries in Seoul – it is, after all, a city of 20 million. But if I wanted to see Western art today, right now, besides Picasso I could see exhibitions of work by Rouaul... [More]
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Posted on June 27, 2006 00:46 by Victoria Josslin
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Roland Terry: 1917 - 2006

On June 10th, the Seattle Times ran a story in their Real Estate section about the Mount Vernon home of legendary Northwest architect Roland Terry. Terry, the paper said, would be moving to an assisted care facility and his longtime friend, Abdel Ageep, would be putting the property up for ... [More]
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Posted on June 21, 2006 09:55 by Jim Demetre
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Visiting the Rembrandt / Caravaggio Exhibit in Amsterdam May 2006

I've just returned from touring museums in Holland, Belgium, and Paris with a group from the Gage Academy of Fine Art. One of the highlights of the trip was the blockbuster "Rembrandt/Caravaggio" show now at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, another example of the current fash... [More]
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Posted on May 20, 2006 04:03 by Gary Faigin
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Boyzie Cekwana and the Floating Outfit Project

On the Boards, February 2-5 Bringing his dance company to On the Boards this week for its Seattle debut, South African choreographer Boyzie Cekwana demonstrated that Africa – a continent Americans associate with rich traditional and popular art forms – is also fertile grou... [More]
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Posted on February 8, 2006 08:19 by Jim Demetre
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SIFF ROUND-UP: Obsessions, ghost stories and private demons

Seattle International Film Festival May 19 - June 12 SIFF’s Emerging Masters series, acknowledging four young filmmakers from around the globe who have films at this year’s fest, awarded the program’s Emerging Masters award to Attila Janisch, the Hungarian filmmaker whos... [More]
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Posted on June 9, 2005 22:29 by Eric Gould
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SIFF ROUND-UP: All the world’s a stage

Seattle International Film Festival May 19 - June 12 Globalization and the consequences of economic isolationism are explored in a few films from this past weekend at SIFF. Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke dramatizes the introduction of globalization in Chinese society in two films paired at... [More]
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SIFF ROUND-UP: Opening Weekend

The tenor of this year’s festival has been, perhaps, the most ambitious in recent years as the first weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival unspooled. Miranda July’s debut Me You and Everyone We Know floored many who attended SIFF’s Opening Night Gala at the Pa... [More]
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Feast Your Ears: Dead Rock Stars and Music Films at SIFF

Dead rock stars – no matter how young or old, how sad or tragic the death – live on forever in the popular imagination and culture. Their names, like an honor roll from pop’s hall of fame, capture a singular image; an icon of youthful passion, independence and rebellion. J... [More]
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The Gates: Installation in Central Park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

If there was ever a body of work designed to be almost critic-proof, it is the extravagant and spectacular environmental interventions of Christo and his collaborator, Jeanne-Claude. It is almost impossible to separate the artworks themselves — the wrapped buildings and coastlines, th... [More]
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Posted on March 16, 2005 11:14 by Gary Faigin
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