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1300 First Avenue

Seattle, WA 98101 (map)

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: ...
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Nov 25 None Public Tour
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Oct 15 None Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
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Nov 28 None Gallery Talk
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Nov 28 None Public Tour
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Nov 29 None Gallery Talk
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Nov 29 None Public Tour
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Nov 30 None Richard Price presents The Wire
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Dec 2 None Public Tour
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Dec 2 None Members Art History Lecture
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Dec 3 None Public Tour
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Dec 3 None Bad and Dangerous: The Film Noir Cycle
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Dec 3 None Art for All
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Dec 3 None Pecha Kucha Night
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Dec 3 None Gregory Blackstock Holiday Accordian Performance
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Dec 4 None Public Tour
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Dec 4 None First Friday Lecture
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Dec 4 None Ladies Musical Club Recital
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Dec 4 None My Favorite Things: Michelangelo
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Dec 4 None Corporate Member Appreciation Day
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Dec 5 None Gallery Talk
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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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