Seattle Art Museum (Seattle)

1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101 (map)
| Date | Time | Event title | Watching | |
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| Oct 15 | None | Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act | ||
| Nov 11 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 12 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 12 | None | Art of Jazz | ||
| Nov 12 | None | Bad and Dangerous: The Film Noir Cycle | ||
| Nov 13 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 13 | None | My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Public Tours | ||
| Nov 13 | None | Pivotal Perspectives: Conversations on Art and Culture | ||
| Nov 14 | None | Gallery Talk | ||
| Nov 14 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 14 | None | Family Fun | ||
| Nov 15 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 15 | None | Gallery Talk | ||
| Nov 15 | None | Tea Ceremony Presentation | ||
| Nov 18 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 19 | None | Public Tour | ||
| Nov 19 | None | SAM Word | ||
| Nov 19 | None | Tea Ceremony Presentation | ||
| Nov 19 | None | Bad and Dangerous: The Film Noir Cycle | ||
| Nov 20 | None | Public Tour |
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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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