Seattle Art Museum Names Amada Cruz Director and CEO
Amada Cruz. AIRI KASTUTA With its current director and CEO, Kimerly Rorschach, set to retire in the fall, the Seattle Art Museum has named its new leader: Amada Cruz, who has been the director and CEO...
View ArticleDeerhide and Polyester: Natalie Ball Crafts Monuments to Indigenous Resistance
The two large-scale sculptures that comprise Natalie Ball’s exhibition “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake,” on view at the Seattle Art Museum through November 17, employ a dense, associative mix of...
View ArticleMet to Reopen in August, Seattle Art Museum at Center of Strange Hoax, and...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially set its reopening date for August 29—more...
View ArticleARTnews in Brief: ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University Will Establish New...
Tuesday, August 11 ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University Will Establish New Media Center The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University has partnered with the public media...
View ArticleThese U.S. Museums Are Closed, But Here Are Some Terrific Ways to Experience...
A quick glance at the New York Times‘s latest coronavirus map shows that several states are under near total lockdown. That means their art museums are closed—but it doesn’t mean there still aren’t...
View ArticleAlleged Putin Architect Talks, KAWS Show Opens at Brooklyn Museum, and More:...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines POKÉMON CARDS, HANDBAGS, FINE WINE: People are buying them all amid the pandemic,...
View ArticleSeattle Art Museum, Yale Receive ‘Transformative’ Gifts of Modern Art by...
Works by Mark Rothko, Helen Frank Frankenthaler, Francis Bacon, and more modern masters are heading to the Seattle Art Museum as a part of a landmark gift. The museum announced on Thursday that it has...
View ArticleSeattle Art Museum Gets Major 48-Work Gift of Alexander Calder Works and $10...
In 1988, collector and former Microsoft president Jon Shirley acquired his first work by the preeminent 20th-century sculptor Alexander Calder. The 1970 mobile, titled Squarish, has long resided in...
View ArticleAfter Finding Success Abroad, Amoako Boafo Is Using His Star Power to Support...
For Amoako Boafo, the best part of success is sharing it with his community, those who inspire him, and bringing along as many people as he can on his journey. This past March, the Ghanaian artist had...
View ArticleA Vast Gift of Calder Sculptures Could Change the Seattle Art Museum—and the...
Museum shows come and go, but a grand Alexander Calder exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum may just reshape the institution for much of the immediate future. The works in this show, from a gift by...
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