ARTDISH MAGAZINE – APRIL 2010
Artist Joseph Goldberg's recent exhibition of encaustic paintings at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle in March explores both representative and abstract subjects. These works invoke shamanistic themes,...
View ArticleArt Critic admits to Liking Norman Rockwell, does not need to Go Underground
Up until quite recently, one did not admit to liking Norman Rockwell in polite company, at least so far as the art world was concerned. Rockwell’s work-for-hire magazine covers, posters, and...
View ArticlePhilippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio, “L’Effet de Serge” at On the Boards – April...
There is perhaps no notion more devalued in the art world today than that of the artist as shaman. For centuries artists have inhabited the role and continued to re-create it as they sought to...
View ArticleLight Fixtures: Go Into the Dark at Western Bridge
Light in Darkness at Western Bridge through April 30, 2011 by Adriana Grant Painting and photography often claim to be about light. The current exhibit at Western Bridge takes this idea to its...
View ArticleInto The Void/Catherine Cabeen and Company
Into The Void/Catherine Cabeen and Company/On The Boards, April 28-30, 2011 Dancer/choreographer Catherine Cabeen’s first full-length performance, Into The Void, is like one of the lush desserts you...
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Mike Daisey Performs “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” at Seattle...
If you haven't seen Mike Daisey perform yet, you need to do so at your earliest convenience; if not this time around then certainly the next. Theater-wise, he's a direct descendant of the rambling but...
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Seattle Opera’s The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute Playing at McCaw Hall through May 21stMost of us have heard the conspiracy theory: Mozart, a lifelong Freemason, disclosed secret Masonic ceremonies in The Magic Flute and was...
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Gabrielle Bakker at Davidson Gallery
We are awash in a sea of images, but few artists celebrate this condition as enthusiastically as Gabrielle Bakker. Her recent work makes a virtue of its eclecticism, cobbling together highly...
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Degenerate Art Ensemble Performs “Red Shoes” at Frye Art Museum, May 12
Or, The Happening on Pill Hill. There's the old theater maxim about breaking through the fourth wall to pierce the boundary between performer and audience. The Degenerate Art Ensemble's roving,...
View ArticleARTDISH MAGAZINE – Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
On the heels of last Fall's retrospective of Pablo Picasso's work at the Seattle Art Museum, arts writer Matthew Kangas considers the work and craft of the Chicago artist Nick Cave whose colorful...
View ArticlePacific Northwest Ballet’s New/Old Giselle
Giselle at Pacific Northwest Ballet, June 3-12, 2011 Marcie Sillman Every artform has its classical canon. Ballet is no exception. With the wild success of the film Black Swan, even people who’ve...
View ArticlePacific Northwest Ballet’s Encore, or Why I Will Miss Chalnessa Eames
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore or Why I Will Miss Chalnessa Eames By Marcie Sillman Marian Oliver McCaw Hall was packed on the evening of June 12, 2011. Packed. Balletomanes of all...
View ArticleJulia Freeman at 4 Culture
4 Culture, Seattle’s most proactive arts, heritage, preservation, and public arts patron, has established itself over the past 35 years as an engine of project-based art-making in Seattle. Though much...
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Western Bridge: Funhouse
by Adriana Grant Funhouse explores discomfort, disorientation, and one's willingness to play, in an exhibit that brings a fairground sensibility to works by artists including Mungo Thomson, Julian...
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