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  1. One art exhibition

    We only went to one art exhibition on Amorgos. The work of Zaxou Vasiliki. You see her here with the poster for her exhibition and the entrance to her small shop . Her exhibition was in the Chora. Her shop is in Langada. Xazou creates portraits from stained glass that she cuts into mosaic like […]

  2. Creative Lving in the Cyclades

    Of course everyone I spoke of in the last post was creative, archeologists at the museums and the Temple of Demeter, textile artists, potters, Kitron distillers. In this blog post I am highlighting another creative person, Sofia Gavala, partner in the stunning Amorgos beach hotel Lakki Village Family Beach Hotel  This hotel is run by […]

  3. Art, Culture, and Small Museums in the Cyclades

      The tiny archeological museums on Amorgos and Naxos were filled with artifacts found on those islands. The intimacy of the spaces, the variety of different types of sculptures, the sense of discovery make visits to these museums delightful.     The first museum that we visited was the Archeological Collection of Amorgos, in the […]

  4. A Memorial On the island of Amorgos in Greece 2021

      We went to Greece to honor Henry’s sister Carolina who died on the Cycladic Island of Amorgos last October. She had a beautiful village funeral the next day.       .           It is a steep road up from the sea to the mountain village of Langada  where Carolina […]

  5. Grief and Grievance at the New Museum in New York

    Grief and Grievance at the New Museum demonstrates the many ways that artist can address grief while collectively suggesting grievance, the resistance to injustice.

  6. Jacob Lawrence and “The American Struggle” at the Seattle Art Museum

        Looking at this single image of the Boston Tea Party the no 3 panel in Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle: From The History of the American People” we see how radical Lawrence is in every respect: composition, space, color, subject matter. In stark contrast to his well-known “Migration” series, the work from “Struggle” includes dynamic thrusting […]

  7. Selma Waldman More Important Than Ever in 2021

    “Lust for power and territory is the same lust that kills man, women, children and the land itself” Selma Waldman 2002   What would Seattle’s deeply political artist Selma Waldman think of our current catastrophes?   On a bitter winter day in January 2008, I accompanied Selma Waldman to the last demonstration that she attended […]

  8. Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems

        “Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems”   This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition  here […]

  9. Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline at the Burke ( not yet open) and the River of Life

      Not yet open at the Burke is Ray Troll’s Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline exhibition. More about the show in a minute, but meanwhile, I want to give a big hooray to the Paleo Nerd podcast that Ray and his friend David  Strassman, a ventriloquest, host. Here is Ray’s own website also. The podcast is […]

  10. Marela Zacarias at Mad Art brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco

        In case  you are yearning for a trip to get away from our crazy election or now to celebrate it, go to Mad Art (325 Westlake Avenue N, open Thurs, Fri, Sat noon to 5 and by appointment necessary) Marela Zacarías  brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco, a Mesoamerican […]

  11. Na Chainkua Reindorf

        Ghanian artist Na Chainkua Reindorf is showing at the Specialist Gallery  (until November 21, by appointment) a series of seven stunning works, with the title “Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things”   The artist is inviting us to meet members of an imaginary secret society. This is the first phase of a long term […]

  12. Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Suffering

    The Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) WHAT STORY WOULD THE UNINTENDED BENEFICIARIES TELL (WSWUBT), which closes in two days, is a wonderful small selection of artists addressing the suffrage amendment and who was left out. The artists include Carletta Carrington Wilson with a selection from her incredible Letter to a Laundress series that I have […]

  13. Maya Lin’s Confluence Revisited 2020

    Revisiting Cape Disappointment and the Confluence Project 2020

  14. Ling Chun Apostrophe S

    Galleries are slowly reopening. Method Gallery has a wonderful new installation by Ling Chun. When I first saw it, I was confounded. Ling is a ceramic artist in her training, but what she does with ceramics is so innovative, that she must now be called a multimedia artist at the intersection of pop, modernism, and […]

  15. CHOP the Garden

    July 18 I went back for another look at the site of CHOP and found it was a large garden in Cal Anderson Park sponsored by Black Star Farmers. They have grown a lot of vegetables all with volunteer help. When I was there they were rinsing kale leaves to donate to a community kitchen […]

  16. A Sunday Trip to the Olympic Sculpture Park

    Taking a break from the heavy news and politics, we take an”expedition” every Sunday in Seattle. Last weekend we went to the Wooden Boat Center and went rowing. This Sunday we went to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here is Beverly Pepper’s Persephone Unbound. 1999. “The abstract language of form that I have chosen has become […]

  17. Occupying the Northwest African American Museum

    The Colman School, site of the Northwest African American Museum, has been occupied since Juneteenth by Omari Tahir, Earl Debnam, and others to declare that they are the rightful owners of the property based on a purchase agreement and loan agreement from January 1998, a copy of which they provided to me. Tahir and Debnam […]

  18. Capitol Hill Organized Protest

    Capitol Hill Occupied ( now called Organized) Protest is evolving as I write, so this is simply a report that will have to be updated. Everyone heard about the tear gas confrontation from Sunday June 6-7 and the departure of the police from 10th precinct, the “zone” as it was called then. I went down […]

  19. Intersections in the Chinatown International District: Dim Sum, Seafood and Black Lives Matter

    Our unique family-owned businesses in the International District have already suffered from the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic because of the absurd ideas coming from DC. Then came willful acts of destruction following a protest May 29 not by peaceful protestors, but by outsiders. But the day after the destruction volunteers began to show […]

  20. Seattle after George Floyd Murder: Protest, Anger, Marches, Occupation

    We have had a 180 turn in mood in the last two weeks, as a result of the murder of George Floyd. I am now seeing the anger about racism and police violence leading to demands to defund the police, whereas before we were “all in this together” to stay home ( which of course […]

  21. Covid 19 murals in Seattle: Ballard

    This is the only series of photos that I didn’ t take myself. Ballard seems far from where I live. So I asked around and put together these images. Thanks to Jeff Hou and Sean Yale. But of course they are not in any particular sequence and Ballard seems to have the least online presence […]

  22. COVID 19 murals in Seattle: Pioneer Square

    Pioneer Square has many many murals. I photographed a few of them and then discovered there is a walking tour which identifies a lot more of them. They are sponsored by the Alliance for Pioneer Square and Pioneer Square Business Improvement Association. In the case of the Globe Bookstore, the owner reached out to a […]

  23. COVID 19 mural art on Capital Hill May 2020

    This is an introductory essay on the mural art in Seattle that is filling the boarded up windows of so many stores. I need to do a lot more research on the artists and the sponsors, but here I will simply post the murals I saw yesterday. I spoke with one artist Tara Velan who […]