For more than forty years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes.
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The Seattle Fine Art Society, the parent institution of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), was founded in 1906.
In 1929 The Fine Art Society was renamed the Art Institute of Seattle and it was in 1933 with its new name, The Seattle Art Museum, opened its doors to the public.
SAM has been a center for world-class visual arts in the Pacific Northwest since its opening.
The three distinct locations of Seattle Art Museum, Asian art Museum, and Olympic Sculpture Park celebrate the region’s position as a crossroads where east meets west, urban meets natural, local meets global. The collections, installations, special exhibitions, and programs feature art from around the world and build bridges between cultures and centuries.
In the heart of downtown Seattle, light-filled galleries visitors are invited to wander through the collections, temporary installations, and special exhibitions from around the world. The collections include Asian, African, Ancient American, Ancient Mediterranean, Islamic, European, Oceanic, Asian, American, modern and contemporary art, and decorative arts and design.
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The Redaction TrilogyOct 24, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020
Hugh Lane Gallery is delighted to present The Redaction Trilogy, the first solo museum exhibition in Ireland by collaborative duo Kennedy Browne: Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne. (more…)
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Elimination of ViolenceArt, Women & Awareness
The United Nations General Assembly has designated today International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today we would like to once again celebrate the women who have inspired and created in the art world.
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van Agtmael
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
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Lucian Freud / The Self PortraitsOct 27, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020
In a world first, we unite Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
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So British! Collection PinaultJun 5, 2019 – May 11, 2020
Since its creation 30 years ago, the Pinault collection has grown quickly to become a major presence in the contemporary arts. This exhibition focuses on the British artists present in the collection. Artists include Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Wateridge, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Toby Ziegler, among others.
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extraORDINAIREOct 12 – Dec 15, 2019
This free inaugural event with its seven original exhibitions by artists including Thomas Struth, Laura Henno, Connie Slab, Lisette Model, Mary Ellen Mark, and others, is, above all, an opportunity to share a preview of the Institut pour la Photographie’s project.
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Nam June PaikOct 17, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020
Nam June Paik’s experimental, innovative, yet playful work has had a profound influence on today’s art and culture. He pioneered the use of TV and video in art and coined the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’ to predict the future of communication in the internet age.
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Darkest HourBrexit and the British youth
Darkest Hour, this pearl of stylish and emotive documentary was directed by Thomas Ralph, just after the initial Brexit referendum nearly three years ago (more…)
