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Tariqa Waters’ nostalgia-fueled, brightly hued art is unmistakable. Now, in her upcoming Seattle Art Museum show, Waters has ...
Fill the gaps in your knowledge of underappreciated, overlooked Northwest artists at Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, go to ...
Just a decade after the city’s founding in 1851, Chinese pioneers began arriving in Seattle. In the 1860s, they set up ...
Spread across three locations, the Seattle Art Museum houses one of America's premier art collections. Among its collection of more than 25,000 pieces, the museum displays everything from European ...
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) security staff are officially on strike. About two dozen workers marched outside the museum Friday, chanting and waving signs. According to a release from the worker-led ...
The Seattle Art Museum's union remains on strike one week after the workers began their stoppage. In a statement, the union claimed that the institution has been "bargaining in bad faith" during ...
A circle of animal-head sculptures depicting each of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac These are just some of more than 100 works you'll see in the Seattle Art Museum exhibition "Ai Rebel ...
SEATTLE, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei (March 12–September 7, 2025), the largest-ever US exhibition of works ...
Benaroya Hall and the Seattle Art Museum. Another popular tourist attraction just south of downtown is Pioneer Square, a historic district that was once the heart of the city. The buildings here ...
As the winner of the Seattle Art Museum’s 2023 Betty Bowen Award, a major prize for Northwest artists, Seattle artist and curator Tariqa Waters gets free rein at the museum, where she’s ...
The solo exhibition “Venus is Missing” — on view at the Seattle Art Museum from May 7 through Jan. 5, 2026 — features a retro-futuristic pink rocket ship that “traverses the realms of ...