Seattle Art Museum (Seattle)

1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101 (map)
| Date | Time | Event title | Watching | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6 | None | Summer Teen Workshop | ||
| Jul 6 | 12:00 am | "Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78." | ||
| Jul 6 | 12:00 am | "Young Americans." | ||
| Jul 6 | 12:00 am | "Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance." | ||
| Jul 6 | 10:30 am | *May-Sept* SEATTLE BITES FOOD TOURS- Pike Place Market | ||
| May 22 | None | Community Program: First Floor Corridor | ||
| Jul 7 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Jul 7 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Jul 7 | 10:00 am | Titus Kaphar: History in the Making | ||
| Jul 7 | 10:00 am | Target Practice | ||
| Jul 8 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Jul 9 | None | Art of Jazz | ||
| Jul 9 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Jul 9 | None | Goddess of Laughter: The Comedies of Carole Lombard | ||
| Jul 9 | 5:30 pm | Andre Thomas & Quiet Fire | ||
| Jul 10 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Jul 10 | None | My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Public Tours | ||
| Jul 10 | None | Andrew Wyeth: Self-Portrait | ||
| Jul 11 | None | Gallery Talk | ||
| Jul 11 | None | Gallery Talk |
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Venue details: Seattle Art Museum in Seattle metro area
Description
City/neighborhood: Downtown
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, extended hours until 9 p.m. on Thursday and Friday
Parking: Paid parking, Street parking
Related info: Gallery Guide
Neighborhood art walks
With a recent addition, Seattle Art Museum has effectively tripled its exhibition space and increased the size of its permanent collection by 1,000 pieces. The original Robert Venturi-designed museum is now the back door to Brad Cloepfil's enormous new space -- and while the new SAM may look anonymous, even cold from the street, inside it's a different story. Natural light pours into airy spaces (adjustable shades on the building's façade protect the art from UV damage), and high ceilings give the art room to breathe.
And there's an awful lot of art to fill those new walls. You'll find Japanese pop art by the likes of Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami; abstracts by Marcel Duchamp and Ellsworth Kelly; classic European works by Paolo Uccello and Peter Paul Rubens; and awe-inspiring pieces by Constantin Brancusi and Cai Guo-Qiang, whose "Inopportune: Stage One" -- a series of tumbling, "exploding" cars -- is as playful as it is iconic. SAM's collection of Asian, African, Mesoamerican and Northwest art remains without peer, and those who go to art museums expecting to see big names -- Botticelli, Pollock, Arbus -- will not be disappointed. This is a proper big-city museum, perfect for a forward-looking metropolis.By Geoff Carter
NWsource staff
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