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Robert Irwin "Nine Spaces, Nine Trees" at University of Washington

For years, the Robert Irwin installation Nine Spaces, Nine Trees seemed almost indistinguishable from the grim, functional office building it accompanied. Driving past, Nine Spaces didn’t even look, at first glance, like art but more of a construction site, with tall fences w... [More]

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Posted on May 7, 2008 06:08 by Gary Faigin
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Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

In conversations and published reports about Seattle’s art scene last year, the word “departures” would frequently follow the ones “Howard House” as some of the artists long represented by the 10 year-old gallery left to show their work elsewhere. This year, h... [More]

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Ben Frank Moss at Francine Seders

Why does the practice of painting endure? An answer came to me last night as I walked through Roman Art from the Louvre at the Seattle Art Museum. The objects that stood out among the many tons of heavy white marble in the exhibition were the two or three vivid fragments of interior wall pa... [More]

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Steve Gilbert at Café Paloma

When I first began writing about art for Reflex in 1995, I remember being struck by the unusual balance of chaos and order that held sway in the painter’s studio. The logic of such a place, built around the idiosyncrasies of the artist’s process and materials, would seldom make s... [More]

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Now in Bloom: Prunus mume

As you head outside this morning you might find yourself staring at a cloud of light pink flowers in the canopy of a tree. The Purple-leaved plum (Prunus cerasifera) is widely planted in Seattle and is one of the earliest trees to put on its spectacular floral display here. Unlike the more ... [More]

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Posted on March 12, 2008 18:18 by Jim Demetre
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Welcome to the New Artdish!

When my fellow ex-Amazon.com employee Mike Daisey chose to write about his three years at the company, he titled his performance and subsequent book 21 Dog Years to reflect the accelerated "Internet time" we had inhabited while working for the online retailer. Today, as Artdish approache... [More]

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Posted on March 1, 2008 14:28 by Jim Demetre
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Kurt Weiser at the Bellevue Arts Museum

Through April 20, 2008 There’s a small pencil drawing in the Kurt Weiser retrospective at BAM, made, according to the label, during a Board meeting of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. The drawing, a doodle-like study of lumpy, humanoid globes on little stands, is a n... [More]

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James Martin at Foster / White

The story of James Martin has all the trappings of a local legend: early success, followed by years of neglect and struggle, followed by rediscovery by a new generation of collectors and critics. The artist himself - reclusive, eccentric, with a more-than-colorful life history – perfe... [More]

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Downtown Seattle Art Museum SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle

When Jen Graves wrote in The Stranger that “the new Seattle Art Museum is so much better than the old Seattle Art Museum it's shocking” she echoed my sentiments exactly. The shock was due in large part to the element of surprise, which characterized the project from beginning... [More]

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Olympic Sculpture Park

It’s become almost routine for new art museums to be criticized for being so powerful architecturally that they threaten to overwhelm their art. The same might be said of the Olympic Sculpture Park, except that here the aesthetic competition isn’t so much the man-made elements (a... [More]