July 11th, 2008
Opening this weekend at the Tacoma Art Museum is the new exhibit, Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible.
This is the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned in over 500 years — since the advent of the printing press, and was created in the tradition of medieval handwritten manuscripts.
The calligraphy was done […]
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June 23rd, 2008
Some of my favorite artists are hanging around the Seattle Art Museum right now – Monet, Manet, Degas, and Cézanne (image at right: Still Life With Statuette), among others. These are just a few of the artists you’ll see in the special exhibit Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past.
This exhibit […]
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May 23rd, 2008
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and the big event around here is the Northwest Folklife Festival. It’s the annual kick off to our summer season.
You’ll find lots of local artists and musicians, banding together for a multi-cultural party that embraces music, dance, visual arts, children’s activities, workshops, crafts, food, and lots, lots more. It’s a […]
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May 15th, 2008
This weekend. . .
. . . head off to Puyallup and the Rubber Stamp & Paper Arts Festival.
If you’re one of the millions of people who are enjoyed the rubber stamping, paper arts and scrapbooking arts, you probably already have this weekend on your calendar.
There are lots of demonstrations, new products, classes and workshops. […]
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May 2nd, 2008
I’ve always been a fan of Renoir — and remember the first time I saw some of his “real” art stuff. I was fascinated by his depiction of Parisian scenes, and it was probably why, at a young age, I fell in love with Paris — even if it was only the Paris seen […]
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April 21st, 2008
The quirky community of Fremont, often referred to as the People’s Republic of Fremont, is home to the Troll that lives under the bridge, and is also home to a 16 foot bronze sculpture of Lenin.
The statue was constructed by Emil Venkov, a Bulgarian sculptor, who portrayed Lenin a revolutionary surrounded by guns […]
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April 16th, 2008
Viewing the Seattle Art Museums’s Roman Art from the Louvre exhibit is the closest you’re going to get to some of this collection of extraordinary art short of paying a visit to the Louvre in Paris.
The exhibition features approximately 180 pieces of ancient art, selected from one of the richest collections in the world, spanning […]
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February 2nd, 2008
Where will you be NEXT Saturday? My recommendation is to go to Georgetown for the Second Saturday Art Attack.
Georgetown is an industrial neighborhood, and lately it’s been experiencing a bit of a renaissance with is burgeoning art community. To showcase and celebrate the numerous artists and creative business based in the neighborhood, while still […]
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January 27th, 2008
Viewing Prospect Fields, the current exhibit at Platform Gallery, is a bit like being a mouse in a maze. Except that you’ll get your bits of cheese along the way instead of just at the end.
Seattle resident Eric Eley has created an exhibit that does more than put stuff on the walls and floors […]
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April 26th, 2007
Today’s Travel & Culture theme day focuses on the latter part of our channel name — culture — as we pay tribute to art around the world.
Head on over to Filipina Soul to get a taste of Art from around our channel. . . and from around the world!
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