Or not near you, depending on where you, yes you, are standing on earth.
Seattle Art Museum, opening Oct. 15.
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
Nice, but nothing people are going to fly in to see, especially considering the recent flurry of Calder exhibits in New York. The fly-in show opens May 13: Kurt.
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, opening Oct. 3. Great idea. The Henry looks for interconnections within its collections.
Though the Henry is recognized as the region’s preeminent contemporary art museum, its holdings include 19th-century paintings, contemporary art and photography, textiles and costumes, ceramics, and many other art objects that are little known.
You bet they’re little known. If they’re not photographs from the collection, the Henry rarely shows them, and there is a lot to see.
Alan Sekula: Waiting for the Tear Gas, photo survey opening Oct. 8. Take a trip down memory lane, back to when Seattle did the World Trade Organization to the sounds of breaking glass and the screams of the wounded, accompanied by the smell of tear gas in the morning.
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe opens Oct. 24. Henry director Sylvia Wolf curated this show for the Whitney last year before she was Henry director, or she would have curated it for the Henry.
Continuing the theme of riot-in-streets established by Sekula, Christopher Delaurenti assays riot in typography: Christopher DeLaurenti N30: Live at the WTO, opening Oct. 29.
Jeppe Hein: 360 Degrees Illusion II, opening Nov. 7. It’s a party favor previously used at a party, but because it’s by Hein, will be worth seeing.
Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, opening Oct. 3, from the Contemporary Museum Houston. Tip top. (Image, Glasstire.)
A Concise History of Northwest Art, opening Oct. 3. Right. A concise history. Right.
Robert Sperry: Bright Abyss, opening Oct. 10. BAM is the only museum offering a timely survey of an artist important to the history of the region, aside from….
Museum of Northwest Art
Boyd Sugiki: Layers, opening Oct. 10.
Inspired by Istanbul’s skyline of historic domes and minarets alongside
modern buildings, Boyd Sugiki creates a series of forms reminiscent of
architecture (more on show link.)
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