Sitting in a Ravenna coffee shop, novelist Julia Sidorova is making sweeping gestures across a table, like a seamstress extending … More
Category: Seattle Magazine
Art Collector: Chiyo Ishikawa
Given her role as Seattle Art Museum’s Deputy Director for Art and curator of European painting and sculpture, Chiyo Ishikawa … More
New Memoir: Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
While talking with West Seattle writer Nicole Hardy about her new memoir, Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin, I mention British installation … More
Ameen and Deep Dhillon Bring a Global Perspective to Art Collecting
In Ameen and Deep Dhillon’s backyard, the chickens do double duty—as egg layers and as models. Ameen, an artist who teaches … More
SAM Gallery Turns 40
In the dating world, many consider the three-month mark a pivotal moment—when paramours have learned enough about each other to … More
Live Nude Girls, or, Feminism Can Be Fun
You really haven’t seen obscene hand gestures until you’ve seen them performed by a fully nude, slightly sweaty, winking blond … More
Bainbridge Island Gets an Art Museum
Creatively focused, eco-obsessed, possessing an urban sensibility and locavore leanings, beautiful without being braggy—the new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art … More
Flight of Fantasy: EMP’s Pop Culture Exhibit
How do you convey the wide-open, magical world of fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride and Harry Potter in … More
Allison Narver Directs Boeing Boeing at Seattle Rep
Boeing-Boeing will remain forever a 1960s set piece for two reasons. First, the acrobatic machinations of the plot hinge on a … More
Frances McCue Lives Inside Her Art
“I’ve never thought of myself as an art collector before,”Frances McCue says, with excitement. A poet, McCue considers herself more … More