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• Time's up

  Art to Go is now Another Bouncing Ball at AJ. The word "now" is overstating it a bit. Posts to start tomorrow. [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 2:01pm EDT
  

• All hail the typewriter

  In the great unraveling world of William Kentridge, the typewriter holds a place. [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 5:02pm EDT
  

• Ann Duffy, street signs continued

  Ann Farnsworth Duffy and Christopher Martin Hoff are tributaries of the Fairfield Porter river, which runs underground but is especially powerful in Seattle. [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 4:28pm EDT
  

• Christopher Martin Hoff, again. Street sign painter supreme

  Christopher Martin Hoff Hoff opens April 2 at the Linda Hodges Gallery. His bleak road scene is just south of the International District in Seattle on Airport Way South, a couple of empty blocks east of Lawrimore Project. Hoff painted it as if it's a Madeleine cookie and he's Proust. [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
  

• Christopher Martin Hoff: Street signs

  Christopher Martin Hoff Christopher Martin Hoff opens at Linda Hodges Gallery on April 2. [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
  

• Wyndel Hunt: What's that sound?

  Wyndel Hunt In Landscapes for Phantom Limbs at Crawl Space two years ago, Dragon's Eye recording artist Wyndel Hunt treated his life as if it were an environmental hazard and he a functionary with the Environmental Protection Agency. [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 8:03pm EDT
  

• The street sign with a purse

  NYC painter Joy Garnett, part of her unmonumental art series on NEWSgrist [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 7:24pm EDT
  

• Surrealist collage on paper: still crazy after all these years

  Drew Daly, Untitled (ring), 2006. Cut photograph, glue, plexiglas, 20" x 20". Image via Greg Kucera Gallery. Deborah Faye Lawrence, Shredder Number Three, 2008. Acrylic, shredded documents, collage, varnish, board, framed, 28" x 38". Image via Catherine Person Gallery. Raven Schlossberg, Crossfire, 2008. Collage and ink on panel. Image via [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
  

• Claudia X. Valdes: Ten Million Degrees at Lawrimore Project

  With photography, painting, interactive installation and video, Claudia X. Valdes considers a nuclear explosion at a point of its impact, the Trinity Site in New Mexico, where the atom bomb was tested in 1945. Her exhibit at Lawrimore Project, titled Ten Million Degrees, runs through March 14. [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
  

• After the PI, Art To Go becomes Another Bouncing Ball

  A reader whom I swear is not a plant wrote to ask: [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
  

• William Kentridge, all over Seattle

  William Kentridge, image via Daily Serving Imagine this man, not wet and not wearing a jacket, standing on a stage in black pants and a crisp white shirt, casting a cold eye on the audience. Behind him is a screen scored with faint black scribble. [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
  

• Brandeis University: When a Rose is more than a rose

  A reader responds to this post: [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 2:01pm EDT
  

• A Washington Post twit on Twitter

  A man who tosses off irresponsible one-liners but builds paragraphs into essays with the reliable if unexciting skill of a bricklayer is not best served by Twitter. All his worst faults are on view, his best suppressed. [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• In hospice care and still painting, Lynne Saad says goodbye

  Lynne Saad At the end of her second year of living with stage four breast cancer, Seattle painter Lynne Saad's last exhibit at the Catherine Person Gallery is titled, Unexpected Opportunity. [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 5:18pm EDT
  

• London embroidery: Put on a happy face

  Alexis Nishihata Showing in Seattle at Tether, opening April 2. [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2009, 10:51pm EST
  

• Seattle circus, vaudeville and boisterous street band music

  John Boylan again. He keeps track of these things: [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:55pm EST
  

• John Boylan thinks aloud about solutions

  March 17, 7-9 p.m. at Vermillion Gallery, John Boylan' movable conversation feast explores the topic of solutions.' [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:49pm EST
  

• Title of the show's wrong, but don't blame the writer

  Here's a phrase that was never in the P-I: "Due to an editing error." If an editor muffs it, the correction does not include that fact. [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:23pm EST
  

• Darwin shakes his tail feathers

  Endless forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts is at the Yale Center for British Art through May 3. The exhibit focuses on Darwin's 19th-century peers. A present-day exhibit could be equally illuminating, maybe The Darwinian Advantage of Beauty? [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  

• The Brooklyn Museum defends Twitter

  In response to this post, On Twitter, no one can hear you scream, Will C. at the Brooklyn Museum noted: [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 7:15pm EST
  

• The way you paint your hat

  Black offers such a wide range of options. [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 6:56pm EST
  

• Ignoring reality, Seattle's Alex Ohge opens a gallery

  UPDATE: Scott Ohge changed his opening date to March 21 instead of March 26. [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  

• Nazis as rats and 50 years later, as cats

  Abe Blashko Art Spiegelman In 1938, at age 18, Abe Blashko had a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum featuring his prints and drawings of street scenes. [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  

• Now for a change of symbols: from PI neon to art's barbed wire

  PI Globe Ed Wicklander, BARBED WIRE TORNADO, 1983 Mixed media 96 x 36 x 36 inches Image via Greg Kucera Gallery Thank you, PI, for a great ride. [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  

• Coming to a grocery store near you: The Arbitrary Art Grant

  Step one: Enter a grocery store. Step two: Inside a shopping cart, build a sculpture from the store's inventory. Step three: Photograph your piece. Step four: E-mail the image to: info@vital5productions.com' [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 7:47pm EST
  

• Totally misquoted by the New York Times?

  Matt Chasansky, public art administrator for Denver International Airport, says he was "totally misquoted" by The New York Times. [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  

• Blue horses, continued.

  Carolyn Krieg's constitute a herd. [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 4:57pm EST
  

• The allure of warty abominations

  Christian Van Minnen Seattle oil painter Christian Van Minnen opens at Roq La Rue March 13. More Van Minnen here. [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 6:08pm EST
  

• The question of the blue horse

  Luis Jiménez Blue Mustang, a sculpture at Denver International Airport, image via Ed Andrieski/The Associated Press Installed a year ago at the outskirts of Denver International Airport, Luis Jimenez's Blue Mustang continues to unsettle passers-by. (Just Say Neigh in The New York Times here.) [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 4:38pm EST
  

• Ceramic planets, after Pluto

  Rick Holst's The Planets opens at Pottery Northwest March 7 at 6 p.m. [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  

• Woman as muse, for good or ill

  Robert Graham took the traditional view of the muses in his Duke Ellington Memorial on the northern edge of Central Park, in Harlem. [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  

• Terra not firma

  Robin Stein, from Residence, opening Saturday night, 7-10, at 20Twenty [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 11:42am EST
  

• On Twitter, no one can hear you scream

  Of all the social networking sites, Twitter is the most absurd. I'd like it better if it were called Burp. A tweet is a note that almost always arrives surrounded by its fellows, but a burp stands alone. Burp and hit send. Others can burp back at you. It will' [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  

• The collision between fast art and slow government

  Heather & Ivan Morison, Fantasy Island, 2007 If time weren't an issue, Open Satellite director Abigail Guay wouldn't have minded indulging the snail's pace processing of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 3:27pm EST
  

• Breasts as a topic for an artist who has two

  Jennifer Campbell Also a star in seriously unserious breast work, Jennifer Zwick, here. [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  

• Reconsidering art in light of string theory

  Tyler Green: [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 5:59pm EST
  

• Bring on the paint: Michael Spafford & Elizabeth Sandvig

  After showing at the Francine Seders Gallery since the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, oil painters Michael Spafford and Elizabeth Sandvig, husband and wife, are for the first time showing there together, or almost together. [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 4:54pm EST
  

• Jen Graves scares the horses

  In this post about layoffs at the Henry, here, the lovely Jen Graves quotes an anonymous source opining that the Henry's in a downward spiral. [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  

• What is it about Seattle artists and fishing lines?

  We run the gamut, from classical... [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 10:09pm EST
  

• Kerry James Marshall asks, Where are the black people?

  Kerry James Marshall at SF MOMA With a solidly Anglo-Saxon version of American art history at the Seattle Art Museum, (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness from Yale University, review here), it's an excellent time to consider Kerry James Marshall's monumental murals featuring George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 9:50pm EST
  

• From Yale University Art Gallery, with Liberty and Justice

  Paul Revere, rousing rabble. He engraved, printed, distributed and sold this broadsheet. A stellar version of America's youth and adolescence, from the 17th-century Colonial era to the 19th-century Gilded Age, opens tomorrow at the Seattle Art Museum. [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2009, 9:33pm EST
  

• Creative Capital/Warhol Arts Writers Grant Program winners

  Lori Waxman, 60 Wrd/Min Art Critic, photo via Bad At Sports The latest round of winners in a now completed three-year trial are a tip-top assortment of arts bloggers, academics, performance critics and plain old good writers. [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 8:45pm EST
  

• High & low: Two Seattle chandeliers

  Dale Chihuly Barbara De Pirro, from a residency at the Museum of Glass [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 8:08pm EST
  

• The ground under her feet

  Barbara De Pirro, Bali, 2008 TO MARK ANTHONY IN HEAVEN [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 7:51pm EST
  

• Marita Dingus makes shoes in James Washington Jr's studio

  James Washington Jr. Born in Gloster, Miss., probably in 1909, James Washington Jr. was not old enough to go to school when the Ku Klux Klan, revived by the once-progressive Southern politician Tom Watson, terrorized black people with a wave of nighttime beatings and lynchings. [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 5:45pm EST
  

• Marita Dingus makes shoes in James Washington Jr.'s studio

  James Washington Jr. Born in Gloster, Miss., probably in 1909, James Washington Jr. was not old enough to go to school when the Ku Klux Klan, revived by the once-progressive Southern politician Tom Watson, terrorized black people with a wave of nighttime beatings and lynchings. [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 5:45pm EST
  

• Eat, drink, be merry and buy something

  Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Training Flight from the artist's Web site Wednesday night, 5:30 - 7:30, Wall Space Gallery hosts a party for emerging photographers at City Catering Company, 1318 E. Pine St. [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  

• Eat, drink, be merry and buy something

  Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Training Flight from the artist's Web site Wednesday night, 5:30 - 7:30, Wall Space Gallery hosts a party for emerging photographers at City Catering Company, 1318 E. Pine St. [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  

• Stop signs continued: The Lord's House of Caskets

  Bill Vaccaro, The Lord's House of Caskets, from his flickr stream [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• Stop signs continued: The Lord's House of Caskets

  Bill Vaccaro, The Lord's House of Caskets, from his flickr stream [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• Art To Go gone till Feb. 23

  When I get back, I'm going to review this:' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 6:38pm EST
  

• Art To Go gone till Feb. 23

  When I get back, I'm going to review this:' [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 6:38pm EST
  

• The meaning of cheese: Its metaphor is not its decoration

  In response to this post, Tacoma: The Triumph of the Cheesy Weirdness, Christina Okeson wrote, [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 6:17pm EST
  

• The meaning of cheese: Its metaphor is not its decoration

  In response to this post, Tacoma: The Triumph of the Cheesy Weirdness, Christina Okeson wrote, [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 6:17pm EST
  

• Tacoma: the triumph of cheesy weirdness

  Dale Chihuly On the way to the Tacoma Art Museum, a sign at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Hood Street says, "Dale Chihuly Always On View." [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• Tacoma: the triumph of cheesy weirdness

  Dale Chihuly On the way to the Tacoma Art Museum, a sign at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Hood Street says, "Dale Chihuly Always On View." [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• Sign of the downturn

  Kevin J. Miyazaki, Highway 94 #1, from 20x200 [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  

• Sign of the downturn

  Kevin J. Miyazaki, Highway 94 #1, from 20x200 [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  

• Garbage in, garbage out: SF Chronicle's low road to public art

  Scott Donahue, detail from his Berkeley Big People Here's how SF Chronicle writers Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross (Matier & Ross) go about business of hustling clicks on their mindless blog - they attack public art, here.' [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  

• Garbage in, garbage out: SF Chronicle's low road to public art

  Scott Donahue, detail from his Berkeley Big People Here's how SF Chronicle writers Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross (Matier & Ross) go about business of hustling clicks on their mindless blog - they attack public art, here. [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  

• Seattle Art Museum announces Gwen & Jacob Lawrence Fellowship

  Titus Kaphar, "All We Know Of Our Father," image via artist's Web site Titus Kaphar is the first artist to receive the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence biennial fellowship from the Seattle Art Museum. Kaphar will receive $10,000 and an exhibit at the museum, opening April 3 in the gallery [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 2:59pm EST
  

• Seattle Art Museum announces Gwen & Jacob Lawrence Fellowship

  Titus Kaphar, "All We Know Of Our Father," image via artist's Web site Titus Kaphar is the first artist to receive the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence biennial fellowship from the Seattle Art Museum. Kaphar will receive $10,000 and an exhibit at the museum, opening April 3 in the gallery [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 2:59pm EST
  

• Sculpture now: discussion with all-star Seattle cast

  John Boylan 's roving, round-table discussion lands this month at Vermillion Gallery, 1508 11th Ave., Thursday night, 7-9. The topic is sculpture, or as Boylan puts it,' [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  

• Sculpture now: discussion with all-star Seattle cast

  John Boylan 's roving, round-table discussion lands this month at Vermillion Gallery, 1508 11th Ave., Thursday night, 7-9. The topic is sculpture, or as Boylan puts it, [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  

• Opening Thursday: Platform, Greg Kucera, James Harris

  Paul Butler Thursday night, 6-8 in Pioneer Square: [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• Opening Thursday: Platform, Greg Kucera, James Harris

  Paul Butler Thursday night, 6-8 in Pioneer Square: [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• Creative Anachronism: Elvis & Guantánamo; The Who & Nirvanda

  Eugenio Merino's Jailhouse Rock (In Guantánamo) [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• Creative Anachronism: Elvis & Guantánamo; The Who & Nirvanda

  Eugenio Merino's Jailhouse Rock (In Guantánamo) [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• Kirk Varnedoe: quote of the weekend

  Epochs do not have essences, history does not work by all governing unities, and works of art in their quirkiness tend to resist generalities. [...]
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  Posted: February 14, 2009, 11:29pm EST
  

• Kirk Varnedoe: quote of the weekend

  Epochs do not have essences, history does not work by all governing unities, and works of art in their quirkiness tend to resist generalities. [...]
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  Posted: February 14, 2009, 11:29pm EST
  

• Advertising art in Seattle

  Artist Trust stays on message on YouTube. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 8:31pm EST
  

• Advertising art in Seattle

  Artist Trust stays on message on YouTube. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 8:31pm EST
  

• Do something life affirming, damn it

  Over at Art Vent, the Carol Diehl falls for the oldest trick in the art book, the desire that art be good for its audience. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  

• Do something life affirming, damn it

  Over at Art Vent, the Carol Diehl falls for the oldest trick in the art book, the desire that art be good for its audience. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  

• Adriana Grant: electricity as art

  Spike Mafford photo, Yuki Nakamura installation at Seattle City Light Adriana Grant in the PI: [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  

• Women artists treat the wounded body

  An air of ernest admiration greets artists with disabilities when they exhibit their work. Even if it's not very good, their art is a tonic. It's good for the artist to make and good for the audience to appreciate. The specific qualities of the objects in play don't matter, which' [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 10:51pm EST
  

• Street signs: the great Dan Witz

  Caption Dan Witz Web site here. [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 9:50pm EST
  

• Body parts in movies and art

  First, big thanks to Michael Seiwerath, the heart and soul of Seattle's alternative movie scene. Since I had him trapped on the phone yesterday, I asked if he'd name his top 10 movies shot in the Northwest off the top of his head and before the light changed. He's just' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 6:10pm EST
  

• Valentine's Day: Every heart has a dark blue lining

  Susan Robb, Kite making and flying at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Valentine's Day. Details after the jump. Get your goo game on. Valentine's Day is Saturday. As Heather McHugh observed, "Valentine's Day? No wonder they named it after a massacre." [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 4:56pm EST
  

• Sexual healing, Duchamp style

  In response to this post on his/her craft, Scott Lawrimore went old school, saying, [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  

• Cascadia coming to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

  Something old, new and borrowed blue: Earth and us in the Northwest. [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  

• Art as a virus: women's work is never done

  Laura Splan, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 2004 Freestanding machine embroidered lace mounted on cotton velvet 16.75"H x 16.75"W x 2.25"D framed dimensions (8"H x 8"W unframed dimensions) Laura Splan, Herpes Virus, 2004 Freestanding machine embroidered lace mounted on cotton velvet 16.75"H x 16.75"W x 2.25"D framed dimensions (8"H x 8"W unframed [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 12:18am EST
  

• Bookmarks as art and/or criticism: The movement spreads

  Here's an idea making the rounds in the press. Certain members of the press (guilty) are suckers for this kind of thing. A writer long gone from the P-I claimed as his title "Master of Fluff." The Fluff Master would make this story matter. I'll stick to sketchy essentials and [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  

• Seattle noir craft: his & her on hankerchiefs and skin

  From a reader, responding to this post on Ries Niemi: [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 4:57pm EST
  

• Dumb idea: Banks don't deserve to be arts patrons

  I'd let this piece pass in merciful silence, except it's the top story on ArtsJournal today and comes from The Guardian. Classical music critic Tom Service thinks that bankers do not have the moral standing to fund arts festivals. (Story here.) [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  

• Morandi: gruesome retrospective, endless influence

  Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890–1964) "Still Life (Natura morta)," 1943. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2006.128.29 © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE Rome It's hard to ruin Morandi, but the Met made a run at it last fall, here. Its' [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 12:23am EST
  

• Ries Niemi: Sewing out back in the barn

  Ries Niemi started out in Seattle as part of Larry Reid's Rosco Louie Gallery, moved to L.A. to make a mark in public art with his wife, Sheila Klein, and, when they moved back, went for the rural experience in Bow, near La Conner, to raise two kids whom Niemi [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 9:31pm EST
  

• Stop, children, what's that sound? Musical stop sign

  Caption Photo by Eric Chastain, who wrote: [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 8:43pm EST
  

• Top ten films shot in the Northwest

  Off the top of his head and in no order, Michael Seiwerath lists the top 10 films shot in the Northwest, with his comments. [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  

• Museum of Modern Art acquiring "Police Beat"

  From an e-mail by Robinson Devor: [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  

• May the chainlink be unbroken: Zoe Leonard and Gretchen Bennett

  Following the post about Shoshana Dentz's chainlink paintings, here, Eric Fredericksen left a comment about Zoe Leonard's beautiful black-and-white photos of trees that have grown into chainlink fences: [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• Shoshana Dentz: Finger on the pulse

  Hope is the thing with feathers, wrote Emily Dickinson, which is why Woody Allen titled a collection of his stories, Without Feathers. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 8:33pm EST
  

• Street sign: Who is that masked man?

  Gail Howard, from her Fremont parade series [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 8:12pm EST
  

• Mike Simi - Working for a Living

  Take Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami in 2001. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 5:35pm EST
  

• Violent erasures: the body and its discontents

  Half a century ago, Arnulf Rainer attacked photos of himself and his friends with slashing black and red inks that sometimes obliterated the body entirely. Portrait artist and vandal became one. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 5:27pm EST
  

• Thanks to Oregon artists, the nearly extinct take a final bow

  What was once a Web site is now available in book form, here. Editor and artist Melody Owen explains: [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  

• John Baldessari and the breakdown of the bicameral mind

  The phrase breakdown of the bicameral mind comes from Julian Jaynes and best applies, in visual art, to John Baldessari: [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Ice & snow sculpture as revenge - naturally cold

  Photos of giant snow sculptures from the 60th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival, which runs until Feb. 11, are on Pink Tentacle via C-Monster. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  

• Galleries look over the edge

  Scott Lawrimore of Lawrimore Project has taken to wearing a button that says, I'm OK.' [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  

• A lost chapter of Indian art

  History does not ordinarily misplace a movement that rewrites the rules of its region across a time span of two centuries, but few of the 60 paintings in "Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur" have ever been seen in the wider world, even by scholars. [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 5:30pm EST