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Jen Graves

Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, at places like Cornish College of the Arts and Centrum. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 14 years.

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  • Visual Art

    You May Be Infected Already

    Gauguin & Polynesia at SAM Will Mess You Up if You Let It
    Posted on 02/15/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Of Breath and Rain’

    This is the first time the Frye has ever fully plugged in—its first digitally controlled immersive installation.
    Posted on 02/08/2012
  • Visual Art

    The Hidden Viscera of a Life

    What's Behind Art Made of Exposed Pipes and Disembodied Soldier Heads
    Posted on 02/08/2012
  • Film

    Pina Is Dead, Long Live Pina

    Wim Wenders Brings the Art of Pina Bausch to Three-Dimensional Life
    Posted on 02/08/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘The Blanket Show’

    The affable bear of an artist Joey Veltkamp is a known entity on Capitol Hill, but his series of blanket drawings deserves a wider audience.
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Features

    Cut Off

    The Komen Foundation’s Partisan Attack on Planned Parenthood, the Women Who Are Upset, the Response from the Local Chapter, and What You Can Do Caves, But What Now?
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Visual Art

    Light Therapy

    Participation and Privacy at ONN/OF
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Visual Art

    Layoffs, Missing Persons, and Hot Wheels

    A Continuous, Disjointed World in CoCA's First International Survey
    Posted on 02/01/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Pina’

    The late choreographer Pina Bausch was not just any great choreographer...
    Posted on 01/25/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Pollen and Paint: Laib, Homer, and the Natural World’

    In early 2001, for just a couple of months, the skylights were opened on the cavernous underground rooms at the Henry Art Gallery...
    Posted on 01/25/2012
  • Visual Art

    The Activation of Corners

    The 10th Northwest Biennial Asks You to Take Off Your Pants
    Posted on 01/25/2012
  • Theater

    I Will Rip Your Soul Apart

    Verdi's Rarely Seen Attila Is Good Opera
    Posted on 01/25/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Eyes of the Skin’

    The walls of the museum will crack open—or they will seem to—and light and sound will come spilling in.
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Features

    This Is Awesome

    Meet Seattle's Great New Gallery, M.I.A.
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Visual Art

    Picturesque

    Photography That's Staged and/or Not
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Visual Art

    A Body Like an Ocean

    After Japan's Tsunami: Porcelain, Animation, Sound, and Mylar at SOIL Gallery
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Visual Art

    This Is Awesome

    The Photographs of Malick Sidibé and a New World Gallery Downtown
    Posted on 01/18/2012
  • Suggests

    ONN/OF Art Festival

    Around this time of year, the average person in Seattle craves light with an intensity approaching the sexual.
    Posted on 01/11/2012
  • Visual Art

    The Fast and the Frozen

    Photography, Past and Present Tense, at PCNW and Zeitgeist
    Posted on 01/11/2012
  • Visual Art

    A Totem Pole Made of Christmas Lights

    Raymond Boisjoly Brings Superwrongness to Life
    Posted on 01/11/2012

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