Seattle Art Museum
One museum with three sites: SAM Downtown, the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park.
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Location:
Seattle, WA, 98101
Phone:
206.654.3100
Wed:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thurs - Fri:
10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sat - Sun:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
 
Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum Don't miss the event of the fall season. SAM REMIX tonight. You have to be there!

Fri at 12:52pm
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Seattle Art Museum Be part of the first American city to participate in "The World, A Giant Poem", an interactive project by Miguel Angel Arenas at Friday's SAM Remix. http://bit.ly/1qElpp

Galia
Galia
A person of REAL culture does not need to belittle and insult others...YOU, Mr. Fabio, are far more ignorant and lacking in refinement than the Americans you are making fun of. And learn to write English if you are going to post your bellicose opinion on an AMERICAN blog!
Thu at 7:53am
Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
In collaboration with Richard Hugo House, poets Daemond Arrindell, Seattle Slammaster, and Kary Wayson, author of the forthcoming American Husband, read new work in response to Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti.

Featuring everyone from spoken wo...rd poets to literary figures, these evenings of words as art are at once intimate and engaging.

Free with museum admission.


After Hours print sponsor: SeattleWeekly

SAM is a recipient of The Wallace Foundation Excellence Award, created to support exemplary arts organizations to pioneer effective practices to engage more people in high-value arts activities.
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Time:5:30PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Living Room, 4th Floor Galleries, SAM Downtown
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Seattle Art Museum Friday night, listen to SAMtrax in the galleries curated by writers from The Stranger, artists, DJs, Director Derrick Cartwright, and more http://bit.ly/1qElpp

November 4 at 11:30am
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Seattle Art Museum Be sure to check out the Sound Lab with Stelios Manousakis and Nicolas Varchausky of UW's DXARTS at Remix on Friday in the Arnold Board Room http://bit.ly/1qElpp

November 3 at 10:29am
Rebecca A Bush
Rebecca A Bush
See the details, there's a ton going on, including: "Appearances by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Yodeling Dominatrix Manuela Horn"
Whoa.
November 3 at 11:09am
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Seattle Art Museum Curator Josh Yiu introduces the online catalogue project focusing on Chinese painting & calligraphy

Source: samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
More often than not, museum books and catalogs feature masterpieces—and only masterpieces.But what about the questionable pieces, forgeries, objects in unfortunate condition,or, to be frank, ones that ...
Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Seattle Art Museum features nearly 100 of SAM’s Asian art masterpieces including paintings, screens, sculpture, ceramics, stone, wood, lacquer and metal ware. These highlights are currently touring five major Japanese museums. A Japanese-language catalogue has been pr...oduced for this show, featuring the latest scholarly research on these objects.

Inspired and educated by travel to Asia with his mother, SAM’s founding director Dr. Richard E. Fuller had a deep knowledge and passion for Asian art which went into his personal collection. Many of the works he collected, including those identified with the help of assistant director Sherman Lee and acquired through the generosity of other Seattle collectors, became the core of the museum’s collection and are still beloved by visitors. SAM’s Japanese collection is considered one of the top five in the world outside of Japan, and the extensive holdings include significant examples of ink painting, calligraphy, Buddhist sculpture, metalwork and folk textiles.

Since the exhibition catalogue is only available in Japanese, Curatorial Associate Catherine Roche’s lecture this Wednesday for members will be the first chance for English speakers to learn about exciting new research on some of SAM’s most important holdings.

Curator's Choice: Catherine Roche, Luminous Jewels
Members Art History Lecture
November 4, 2009, 7–8:30 pm
Plestcheeff Auditorium, SAM Downtown

One of Ten Swift Bulls (Shungyu-zu), ca. 1300, Japanese, Kamakura period, ink and color on paper, wood or horn, 10 5/8 x 12 1/4 in., Gift of Mrs. Donald E. Frederick, 50.66. Currently on view in Japan, in Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Seattle Art Museum.
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Seattle Art Museum One week from today. Final lineup announced. You have to be here!

Performance, music, art and energy
Location:Seattle Art Museum Downtown
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 6th
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Seattle Art Museum Check out the latest blog post by SAM director Derrick Cartwright

Source: samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
Endless Night, 2008, Josh Faught, crocheted wool yarn, indigo, garden trellis and ribbon in two parts (abstracted view of night sky from window) is dyed in successively darker vats of indigo dye. Courtesy of the artist and Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
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Seattle Art Museum Tomorrow is the last day to submit designs for the temporary tattoo project led by Ariana Page Russell and Allison Manch at SAM Remix-we want to see what you've got! Send 200dpi images to temporarytattooproject@gmail.com by October 30 to be considered.

Ariana Page Russell lives in Brooklyn, NY and Allison Manch lives in Seattle, WA. Together we are Leather and Lace.
Other Public Figure:203 fans
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Seattle Art Museum
The Katherine B. Baker Memorial Purchase Prize of $100 . . . was awarded to the much disputed abstract composition "Modal Tide" by Mark Tobey. Incidentally, that oil painting is a most welcome addition to the permanent collection of the Museum . . . The newspaper criticism of this exhibit and the generous space which ...was allowed for the resulting discussion was very beneficial, for it permitted us to clarify some points in regard to contemporary art.
-Richard E. Fuller, Director, Seattle Art Museum, Annual Report, 1940

What about this painting made such waves in 1940 Seattle?

To that point, the most successful Northwest artists were painting and sculpting recognizable forms: Moor swans, loggers, landscapes, etc. While influenced by the motion of the sea at his patrons’ beach house, Mark Tobey created here a rigorously abstract composition, one he would repeat in the murals that now hang in the Simons Board Room (SAM-DT). Not accustomed to such non-objective art, the public reaction to this painting was heated, though not heated enough to dissuade Dr. Fuller from adding the work proudly to the SAM collection.

Modal Tide, 1940, Mark Tobey, American, 1890 – 1976, oil on canvas, 34 1/2 x 47 3/8 in., Gift of the West Seattle Art Club, Katherine B. Baker Memorial Purchase Prize, 26th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum, 1940, 40.58

Currently viewable online: http://bit.ly/1ALqhr
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Betsy
Betsy
Beautiful! I have never seen this Tobey painting before. Where do you keep it?
October 29 at 10:50pm
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Seattle Art Museum SAM members enjoy priority access at Remix on Nov. 6: members-only entrance and a private lounge with bar, Pernod Absinthe fountain, local artists and Remix performers, and one free glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage of choice. Not a member? Join today http://bit.ly/hTZ3O

October 27 at 5:03pm
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Seattle Art Museum
Hi Bette, gallery admission is a suggested donation which means you pay what you can. Admission to SAM Remix is $10 which is less than the $15 suggestion donation. It's a great value as can visit the galleries and experience performance, music and activities.
October 28 at 8:30am
Deborah Wetzel
Deborah Wetzel
Also SAM is free on first thursdays of each month.
October 28 at 8:47am
Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
The cycle of life — and death — is beautiful. The Mexican tradition of El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) celebrates the spirits of those who have passed on. Join La Banda Gozona for a special Art for All performance held in conjunction with SAM's Day of the Dead celebration.

Free and open to the public.


After H...ours print sponsor: SeattleWeekly

SAM is a recipient of The Wallace Foundation Excellence Award, created to support exemplary arts organizations to pioneer effective practices to engage more people in high-value arts activities.
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La Banda Gozona
Time:5:30PM Thursday, November 5th
Location:Brotman Forum, Seattle Art Museum Downtown
Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum Latest blog post features a look inside the Calder and Michelangelo exhibitions now on view.

Source: samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
Our new director Derrick Cartwright gives you an inside look into the Michelangelo Public and Private andAlexander Calder exhibition galleries with curators Chiyo Ishikawa and Dr. Gary Radke.
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Seattle Art Museum SAM Remix is two weeks away! Enjoy beats spun by DJ Riz, Scratchmaster Joe and Tigerbeat. http://bit.ly/1qElpp