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Having recently retired to a small medieval château in the French countryside, Greg Kucera — still active in the eponymous Seattle gallery he ran for 38 years — closed his New Yorker magazine and opened the laptop sitting next to him on the bed. He…

The pavilion was designed by Seattle-born architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1968), who designed the World Trade Center in New York City around the same time as the World’s Fair. For the Science Center, he created a cluster of concrete buildings…

Hole-in-one gallery One night in February 1997, a certain “Mel Waters” of Washington called the late-night, loose-with-the-facts talk radio show Coast to Coast with Art Bell. He said he’d located an 80,000-foot hole possessing paranormal powers on…

These craft fairs, pop-ups and art shows offer locally made pottery, jewelry, homewares and affordable paintings as gifts you can feel good about giving. Our end-of-year gift-giving advice is the same as ever: Shop local, shop small — and shop art.…

Ana María Campoy in the Black Box theater on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Campoy is directing “In the Time of the Butterflies,” a play by Caridad Svich based on the novel by Julia Alvarez. (Amanda Snyder/Crosscut) Ana María Campoy in the Black Box…

The nonprofit has already depleted its cash for a deposit on the venue. Whether it can cover the rest hinges in part on a $3,500 grant promised back in April. “We put on this festival every year for 11 years,” Thorsen said last week. “It’s in…

The art of carving During the most recent edition of the Seattle Art Fair at Lumen Field, a pair of piercing eyes welcomed visitors to the gallery booth of Seattle gallery Greg Kucera. The eyes (belonging to a woman in a niqab) were painted on a…

What’s the solution? “Housing. Housing. Housing,” said artist Christopher Derek Bruno in an Instagram message. Plus, he added: affordable and/or subsidized studio spaces (a popular recommendation among those who wrote in, along with a guaranteed…

Standing inside a festival booth, Ingela Travers-Hayward asks two twenty-something women approaching, “Would you like some free naloxone?” Travers-Hayward is one of the co-founders of the new Ohio-based nonprofit This Must Be The Place, which aims to…

A pink Energizer Bunny watches over a series of brand-new paintings by Anthony White at the Seattle Art Museum. At 27, the Seattle artist just opened a solo show called Limited Liability (through Jan. 29, 2023), in which he strings together a…

For musician Mai Li Pittard, surviving in pre-pandemic Seattle meant struggling to stitch together a “patchwork quilt” of freelance jobs: performing at local concert venues, mitzvahs and other Jewish celebrations with a klezmer band; singing or…

Hamilton returns to Seattle Hamilton needs no introduction. The 2015 musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, written and composed by creative polymath Lin-Manuel Miranda in a now-famous blend of hip-hop, Broadway, jazz and R&B, has grown…

I was reminded of this once again this past week, while talking with local curator and writer Sharon Arnold. As a longtime Seattle gallery owner, Arnold for years has organized talks around and written about how to bridge the gap between the art…

With more than 70 cubicle rooms of art from all over the world (including 20 from Washington), it’s hard to know where to begin. But in the opening hours of the event last night — a hot and sunny summer evening — we bravely donned our arts reporter…