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Seattle Art Museum

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Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Trying to Unionize, But It Hasn’t Been Easy

Avatar photo by Amber Cortes April 21, 2022March 8, 2023

Some workers at the museum say they’ve experienced “aggressive union-busting tactics” since organizing.

Posted inNews

In Seattle, Staff Call for a Boycott in Response to Museum’s Reaction to Unhoused Community

Avatar photo by Amber Cortes January 13, 2022January 14, 2022

Decolonize SAM says the museum is “putting property over people” by implementing harsh measures against the unhoused community in lieu of alternative efforts.

Posted inOpinion

Seattle Museums Are Artwashing Their Way Back to “Normal”

Avatar photo by Matthew Offenbacher October 12, 2021October 13, 2021

As long as museums make representational rather than structural changes, they cannot shake off their white supremacist origins.

Posted inArt

Jacob Lawrence Illuminates the American Struggle

Avatar photo by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud April 5, 2021April 6, 2021

The American Struggle is now in Seattle, where the painter spent his final decades.

Posted inArt

How Museums Are Combatting a Shortage of East Asian Art Conservators

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd April 8, 2019April 9, 2019

While American collections of East Asian art have grown tremendously, the specialized conservation laboratories that maintain these collections have not.

Posted inArt

Artists of African Descent Don Disguises in the Digital Age

by Kenta Murakami September 3, 2015September 7, 2015

SEATTLE — The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) attempts to confront the nuanced subtext of its vast collection of African masks in the ambitious and delightful exhibition Disguise: Masks and Global African Art.

Posted inArt

In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American Art

by Sheila Regan June 26, 2015July 11, 2017

Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream art museums present Native American art.

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Northwest Passages: Into the Modernist Mystic

by Joe Donahue August 30, 2014September 3, 2014

SEATTLE — I believe what Wallace Stevens said: a mythology reflects its region. So in moving from New York City to Seattle in 1995, I was doubly anxious, knowing neither the region nor its mythology.

Posted inOpinion

Michelangelo’s Grocery List

by Alicia Eler January 2, 2014January 5, 2014

The great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo ate fish and bread like most everybody else.

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