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Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.
Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
Part I of Haida Gwai touches on the amazing culture of the Haida and its recent revival.
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
Detention is already out of control in this country. The current immigration bill will make it much worse.
Deborah Willis “Out O Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery changes the way we see photographs and shakes up our preconceived ideas.
From flooded sites in Turkey to cartoons in Syria, a look at someaspects of culture in the midst of the political and economic earthquakes in Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Syria.
Protests of Keystone XL, coal trains, fracking, and the biggest oil presence in our lives explained at the Burke Museum in “Plastics Unwrapped”
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
Creative Time Summits (here is the schedule of the upcoming Summit) are a primary place for the discussion of socially engaged artistic practices. Laurie Jo Reynolds (above) is one artist who has been featured several times for her important work, moving from an artist working with prisoners at Tamms Supermax Prison, to a political activist […]
We are embedded in the natural world inside and out, organs and bones; we are in and of the bird world, the animal world, the world of insects; some of those creatures are going to survive the human species, in the end because of our obliviousness to our place in the world. […]
This is just a quick acknowledgement of a brilliant playwright and a thank you to the ACT theater for staging a Pinter Festival this summer. Harold Pinter stylistically can be placed between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard in the British Theater. He lived from 1930 – 2008 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature […]
Fremont Solstice Parade, We the People festival and Occupy Living Rooms, a play, all express collaborative creativity that resists categories of art and politics.
This exhibition is created by people who are on the front lines of violence in Colombia. The exhibition is being circulated by Witness for Peace Northwest in collaboration with Lutheran World Relief. “The artists are families and friends of those who lost their lives in the violence. Despite the fact that much of the violence […]
This last weekend I went to two amazing fundraisers that both featured art and activism. The first was a collaboration between Chaya, an organization that helps domestic violence victims from South Asia that live in the Seattle area. and Tasveer, a non profit that sponsors South Asian independent film festivals . They presented films, dance, […]