One museum with three sites: SAM Downtown, the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park.
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- Seattle, WA, 98101
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- Art for All: An Evening of Sko...
Brotman Forum, Seattle Art Museum D...
Thursday, December 3 at 5:30pm
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My Favorite Things tours bring some of the most opinionated and fascinating artists, cultural producers and community figures into the galleries to discuss their favorite works of art.
This week, SAM offers a tour that explores the power of color in Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act and SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs with loc...al artist Jenny Heishman. Heishman received the PONCHO Special Recognition Award this year, and her piece Water Mover, commissioned by the City of Seattle, was selected for the national Top 40 Public Art Projects. Heishman plays with color and faux surfaces in her sculptural work to bring into question our perceptions of real and fake.
Free with museum admission. Tour meets at the entrance to Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act on the Fourth Floor.
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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This week, SAM offers a tour that explores the power of color in Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act and SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs with loc...al artist Jenny Heishman. Heishman received the PONCHO Special Recognition Award this year, and her piece Water Mover, commissioned by the City of Seattle, was selected for the national Top 40 Public Art Projects. Heishman plays with color and faux surfaces in her sculptural work to bring into question our perceptions of real and fake.
Free with museum admission. Tour meets at the entrance to Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act on the Fourth Floor.
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:6:30PM Friday, November 20th
Location:Fourth Floor Galleries, SAM Downtown
Seattle Art Museum Tonight poets Daemond Arrindell & Kary Wayson read new work in response to Michelangelo on the 4th floor of SAM Downtown http://bit.ly/dqrbh
Seattle Art Museum Renowned biographer Hannah Pakula discusses her latest book on Madame Chiang Kai-shek tonight at the Seattle Asian Art Museum http://bit.ly/EogMG
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Commemorating the recent acquisition of The End of the Ancestors (1992) by Gerald Bruce subiyay Miller, this performance features Skokomish song and dance.
Then, starting at 7:00 pm, join us for Pecha Kucha Night, a presentation bringing together a diverse array of Native artists, critics, designers and others to create... a place for cross-pollination in Seattle's creative community.
Free and open to the public.
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.
Exhibition reinstallation support provided by Port Madison Enterprises/Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort
Image: The End of the Ancestors (detail), 1992, Gerald Bruce subiyay Miller, Skokomish, 1944–2005, installation: wood, sheep's wool, animal hair, cedar bark, beads, shells, Panels 81 x 97 x 13 1/2 in., Gift of Steven, Jomarie, Andrew, Erika and Wisten Klein, 2009.23, © Bruce Miller Read More
Then, starting at 7:00 pm, join us for Pecha Kucha Night, a presentation bringing together a diverse array of Native artists, critics, designers and others to create... a place for cross-pollination in Seattle's creative community.
Free and open to the public.
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.
Exhibition reinstallation support provided by Port Madison Enterprises/Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort
Image: The End of the Ancestors (detail), 1992, Gerald Bruce subiyay Miller, Skokomish, 1944–2005, installation: wood, sheep's wool, animal hair, cedar bark, beads, shells, Panels 81 x 97 x 13 1/2 in., Gift of Steven, Jomarie, Andrew, Erika and Wisten Klein, 2009.23, © Bruce Miller Read More
Time:5:30PM Thursday, December 3rd
Location:Brotman Forum, Seattle Art Museum Downtown
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Often found in burial contexts, ancient Mesoamerican figures affirm a strong belief in the afterlife and the need for purposeful rituals to assure a smooth transition from the earthly realm. Lively ceramic figures from the shaft tombs of West Mexico recreate the pleasures of the living. Delicately modeled Maya figures ...from the necropolis at Jaina depict dancers, priests and warriors to accompany the deceased elite. This delicate figure depicts a seated dancer (whose loincloth indicates he is a captive) who gestures with one hand and shakes a rattle with the other. Mesoamerican instruments were of the percussive and melodic type, and from paintings and sculptures we know that the Maya used flutes, rattles, drums and trumpets made from ceramic, gourds, wood, and shell.
"Kneeling figure of a captive, performing," ca. 600 – 900, Mayan, Jaina, Late Classic period, ceramic with pigment, 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in., Gift of John H. Hauberg, 99.75. Now on view in the Mesoamerican gallery, third floor, SAM Downtown.Read More
"Kneeling figure of a captive, performing," ca. 600 – 900, Mayan, Jaina, Late Classic period, ceramic with pigment, 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in., Gift of John H. Hauberg, 99.75. Now on view in the Mesoamerican gallery, third floor, SAM Downtown.Read More
Seattle Art Museum New SAM Soap blog post: launching new column - the history in art history. Who is Mrs. Carmichael?
Source: samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900), A Country Home, 1854; oil on canvas 32 x 51 in. Gift of Mrs. Paul C. Carmichael, 65.80
Seattle Art Museum This Saturday join us for a free artist panel discussion at the Olympic Sculpture Park Pavillion.
Source: www.seattleartmuseum.org
Commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, the Water Calling temporary art and short film projects feature artists working in various disciplines exploring water—examining its ...
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Europe’s fascination with Greek and Roman art and culture was rekindled in the 1730s and 1740s when Herculaneum and Pompeii, two cities buried by the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., were excavated, and noblemen from London to Moscow vied for the treasures unearthed. This collecting frenzy coincided with an inte...nsified intellectual reaction, fostered by the Enlightenment, against the rococo— an energetic, colorful style increasingly viewed as frivolous and too closely tied to the royal courts and divine rights of kings.
Echoes of classical forms (rather than wholesale copying of ancient Greek and Roman art) and ornamentation reverberated throughout a new style in art and culture that captivated Europe during the last four decades of the eighteenth century. Known originally as the “true style,” it was given the name “neoclassicism” in the mid-nineteenth century. Elements of the True Style in this gallery are the lions’ heads, paw feet and vertical reed-like decoration of the chairs. Unglazed white porcelain, resembling marble, is modeled into family groups in a frontal, serene, True-Style portrayal of the figures. An ancient red-figured vessel, similar to the museum’s Greek hydria of 450 B.C. (68.6), inspired Josiah Wedgwood’s black vase decorated with classical figures.
Vase, ca. 1795, Wedgwood factory, English, black basalt ware, height: 9 in., Purchased with funds from The Mrs. Kenneth C. Klepser Estate Endowment, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2004.92. On view in the European galleries, fourth floor, SAM DowntownRead More
Echoes of classical forms (rather than wholesale copying of ancient Greek and Roman art) and ornamentation reverberated throughout a new style in art and culture that captivated Europe during the last four decades of the eighteenth century. Known originally as the “true style,” it was given the name “neoclassicism” in the mid-nineteenth century. Elements of the True Style in this gallery are the lions’ heads, paw feet and vertical reed-like decoration of the chairs. Unglazed white porcelain, resembling marble, is modeled into family groups in a frontal, serene, True-Style portrayal of the figures. An ancient red-figured vessel, similar to the museum’s Greek hydria of 450 B.C. (68.6), inspired Josiah Wedgwood’s black vase decorated with classical figures.
Vase, ca. 1795, Wedgwood factory, English, black basalt ware, height: 9 in., Purchased with funds from The Mrs. Kenneth C. Klepser Estate Endowment, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2004.92. On view in the European galleries, fourth floor, SAM DowntownRead More
Seattle Art Museum
My Favorite Things tours bring some of the most opinionated and fascinating artists, cultural producers and community figures into the galleries to discuss their favorite works of art.
This week, SAM offers a tour with Seattle-based artist David Hartt. Since 1994, Hartt has exhibited at galleries including Coupole, Brus...sels; Andrew Kreps, New York; and most recently Howard House here in Seattle. His recent work in photography and sculpture has focused on exploring utopian themes through their specific vernacular expressions. Hartt has been pursuing a parallel career as a creative director in advertising since 1996, working with clients including Levi’s, Blackberry, Cadillac and Best Buy.
Hartt will offer us ruminations on cultural baggage in practice and theory. Drawing on the broadness of the collection, from discrete objects to full environments, the tour will focus on activating the metaphorical value of the institution rather than connoisseurship.
Free with museum admission. Tours meet in the Brotman Forum.
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.Read More
This week, SAM offers a tour with Seattle-based artist David Hartt. Since 1994, Hartt has exhibited at galleries including Coupole, Brus...sels; Andrew Kreps, New York; and most recently Howard House here in Seattle. His recent work in photography and sculpture has focused on exploring utopian themes through their specific vernacular expressions. Hartt has been pursuing a parallel career as a creative director in advertising since 1996, working with clients including Levi’s, Blackberry, Cadillac and Best Buy.
Hartt will offer us ruminations on cultural baggage in practice and theory. Drawing on the broadness of the collection, from discrete objects to full environments, the tour will focus on activating the metaphorical value of the institution rather than connoisseurship.
Free with museum admission. Tours meet in the Brotman Forum.
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.Read More
Time:6:30PM Friday, November 13th
Seattle Art Museum On SAM Blog the story behind Little David.
Source: samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
I recently found myself needing to purchase a dozen replica statues of Michelangelo’s David. Such is my job at SAM – I get to do the sometimes very random tasks associated with promoting the museum’s current exhibitions. ...
Seattle Art Museum SAM Remix was a BLAST. Thanks for joining us. Mark your calendars for the next one on Friday, February 26, 2010!
Seattle Art Museum Don't miss the event of the fall season. SAM REMIX tonight. You have to be there!
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
Source: www.miguelangelarenas.com
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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.Read More
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.Read More
Time:7:30PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Living Room, 4th Floor Galleries, SAM Downtown
