It’s well documented that Paul Allen is an art fanatic by way of the museums (Museum of Pop Culture) and endeavors (Seattle Art Fair, Upstream Fest) he has created and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Karla Boos describes herself as a high-level, outside-the-box wizard. For the past 27 years, as the founder and artistic director of the Quantum Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Boos… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Andy Warhol made his mark as a pop artist throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, but his pioneering spirit and appreciation for inclusiveness would be right at home in… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In a room full of people at Concept Art Gallery in this city’s Regent Square neighborhood, Vanessa German was far from silent. The celebrated artist used her powerful… Read More
The dictionary defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill or imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated… Read More
Want to order up a drawing? Say you want a picture of a bird with a yellow crown and black rings around its eyes. Or a still life showing swirls… Read More
Virtual reality may have gotten its start with shoot-’em-up video games and porn, but now artists are making VR that puts the emphasis on reality as well as humanity. And… Read More
The largest exhibition ever staged at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture will feature hundreds of original artifacts and much more as it lifts the mask on one of the most iconic… Read More
I went to the dentist this morning, which is the place where I like to go every six months so I can catch up on my print magazine reading. In… Read More
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has joined a chorus of voices in his city and online calling for a statue of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin to be removed from its… Read More
A handful of self-described supporters of President Donald Trump converged on Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday to call for the removal of a statue of Russian Communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin that… Read More
Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood has long been considered one of the city’s more eccentric areas — home to artists and hippies and an annual summer solstice parade populated by political floats… Read More
The art of cycling took on a whole new meaning during last month’s Amgen Tour of California, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Volvox Labs which used Kinect technology… Read More
There’s plenty of talk about what Seattle’s seemingly all-enveloping technology industry is doing to affordability, diversity and the culture of the place, and whether it’s putting the squeeze on artists who… Read More
Humanity has never been in better shape than it is today. That’s what sociologist Steven Tepper argues, anyway. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way for many people. Tepper, who serves… Read More
As a senior data scientist at Groupon and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Tacoma, one might expect that Muhammad… Read More
As Seattle-based indie rocker Will Toledo, who performs as Car Seat Headrest, gyrated around KEXP’s new live studio this afternoon, 1,850 LED bulbs danced along with him, tracing his movements.… Read More
After narrowing the search to two California cities, Star Wars creator George Lucas has chosen Los Angeles over San Francisco as the future home of the Lucas Museum of Narrative… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready for the Internet to “grow up.” It needs to happen, he told the crowd at AT&T’s Developer Summit, if we’re going to… Read More
From the living room of her Seattle apartment, Melissa Anne McClain has a window on the rapidly changing city that she calls home. For three years, McClain has lived on the… Read More
Travelers in a hurry to get through security at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can skip the lines thanks to screening technology from Clear. And the company’s new pods aren’t just state… Read More
A painting that looks like it would be right at home in Jet City is ready for takeoff — and it could make Seattle billionaire Paul Allen even richer. Bloomberg… Read More
At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya make strange bedfellows. Tihanyi is an interdisciplinary visual artist who teaches in the University of Washington’s School of Art and has spent more than… Read More
From the living room of his apartment in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, artist and musician Shawn McClure has a pretty killer view of the city’s skyline. Even if he couldn’t… Read More
Plenty of speakers and attendees at the annual GeekWire Summit are used to “drawing on their experiences” to tell a story related to whatever they do in technology and elsewhere.… Read More
Just what environmentally conscious Seattleites needed: a giant reminder in the middle of the city to illustrate that ice does indeed melt. Seattle architecture firm Olson Kundig dropped its 10-ton Ice Cube in… Read More
Artist Ginny Ruffner’s Poetic Hybrids exhibit makes concepts of genetic modification, augmented reality and sophisticated 3D modeling accessible enough for a child to enjoy it. And many children did, during the… Read More
Cancer researchers have to deal with some of nature’s ugliest diseases, but they do find bits of beauty along the way – and that beauty is the focus of an… Read More
If you’re feeling saddled by an addiction to technology, perhaps especially since the arrival of Pokémon Go, a recent illustration by Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski has tapped into that feeling… Read More
Seattle Art Fair, the exhibition founded by billionaire Paul Allen to showcase unique and innovative works, kicks off for the second year on Thursday and themes around technology will be… Read More