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1300 First Ave. Seattle, WA 98101

206-654-3100

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Best Museum
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Sun,Tue,Wed,Sat 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 10am-9pm
Entertainment: Live Entertainment

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Adrian Paci

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat., Sun.

Some downtown office workers may feel deterred from merely browsing at SAM because of, well, the ticket price. If there's not some big marquee show...
Theaster Gates

10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri. from December 8 until July 1

In The Listening Room, the Chicago artist has rearchived the albums from a defunct R&B record store as a kind of tribute to the Civil Rights era. F...
Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection

10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri. from May 31 until September 2

Exploring an unusual and dynamic chapter of art history, a collection of over 100 pieces from Australian aboriginal artists, from the late 20th to ...

2011 | Best Museum

So long, Derrick Cartwright, don't let the door hit you on the way out! Though it's losing its director (quitter! short-timer! LeBron!), and though it took a big financial hit with the loss of office tenant WaMu upstairs (Nordstrom finally leased the space--whew!), the Seattle Art Museum continues to muscle its way forward. The big Picasso and Nick Cave shows were both hugely successful. Its Olympic Sculpture Park is at peak season right now. And it's a cultural anchor for downt... More »
2011 | Best Museum Exhibit

The Picasso show may have boasted lines until midnight and seas of striped sailor shirts, but Nick Cave's "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" brought something to SAM that most exhibits can't--the chance to be part of the exhibit itself. Cave's "Soundsuit Invasions" brought his most mobile creations out of the museum and into Seattle's streets, libraries, shops, and events. Both kids and adults were encouraged to create and don their own soundsuits and take part in parades, all... More »
2010 | Best Arts Event/Venue for Picking Someone Up

The paintings aren't the only things worth eyeing when the doors are thrown open downtown once a month. 1300 First Ave., 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org More »
2010 | Best Gallery/Museum Exhibit of the Last 12 Months

You've got one more month to see a Seattle legend chronicled, interpreted, and deconstructed. More »

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By Seattle Weekly Critics | Wed, April 11, 2012

WEDNESDAY 4/11 Books/Bikes: The Cycle of Judgment To follow BikeSnobNYC on Twitter or his blog, you gotta know the lingo. He's visiting Seattle for a BRA (book-related appearance) to promote The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drive... More »
The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

By Seattle Weekly Critics | Wed, March 07, 2012

WEDNESDAY 3/7 Film: Blood on the Lens So what if she didn't win the Oscar for editing Martin Scorsese's Hugo? Thelma Schoonmaker already has three such awards for cutting his movies, in a partnership now extending past its third decade. Scorsese a... More »
Jules and Jim

By | Wed, March 07, 2012

A rocking chair has a rhythm of its own; so does Jules and Jim. Now 50 years old, François Truffaut's whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty. The film appears to us as like a specter, with a sensibility about cinematic language and sexual rela... More »
Thelma Schoonmaker

By | Wed, February 29, 2012

So what if she didn't win the Oscar for editing Martin Scorsese's Hugo? Thelma Schoonmaker already has three such awards for cutting his movies in a partnership now extending past its third decade. Scorsese also introduced her to her late husband,... More »
Visual Arts: Gauguin at SAM

By Brian Miller | Wed, February 22, 2012

"Women? I like 'em fat and vicious and none too smart! Nothing too spiritual, either!" So says Paul Gauguin—or rather, the Paul Gauguin played by Oscar-winning Anthony Quinn in the 1956 van Gogh biopic Lust for Life. In a bar scene between the two... More »
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Jamie370 | Seattle, WA | 19 Reviews

| Wed, August 12, 2009

Go for an afternoon at the museum and then dine at TASTE Restaurant for some great dessert and drinks!
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Kelsee | Phoenix, AZ | 189 Reviews

| Sun, May 9, 2010

Had a lot of fun visiting this place! Great modern art and a good collection of traditional art.
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yohannisb | Seattle, WA | 21 Reviews

| Sat, April 24, 2010

For a broad survey of art along many dimensions (historically, geographically, among others), this is where to catch it in seattle! be on the look out for the temporary exhibitions--they're often interesting and rarely inaccessible to non-art types like me! also, first thursdays of each month are free!
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